‘Most Nervous I’ve Ever Been’: The Kid Laroi Spills On His Performance With Girlfriend Tate McRae

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good after that everyone, And it is Will and MORDI
hope you having a great drive home. The kid Laroy's
new album the first time. It is out now and
if you're to go and see me as touring in
November all around Australia. Tickets available on ticket takers in
Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney, Pitt, Adelaide, Hobart, Melbourne. And we
are so lucky here on William Woody. This is the
first time we've had the man on the show. Please

(00:20):
welcome the kid ler Roy to Will and Woody.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
How are you mate?

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I want you guys to know that Will put on
that voice Will put on the radio that.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Was between friends. It's all fake fake.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Will's normal voice is very high pitched. It's embarrassingly high pitched,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I see how it's going to be. I see how
it's going to be. Alright, alright.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
You turned twenty one the other day, which is remarkable,
like truly remarkable. Congratulations on all of your success. I
can't think of many people on the planet that are
as super well renowned and successful as you are at
your age. I wanted to ask you, obviously, one's legal
drinking age in the US. I know that's where you
spend your time. How was the first sip of alcohol ever?

(01:07):
And what did you what did you go for there?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
You know, I I think the first the first legal drink.
I think it might have just been a bear. Honestly,
I think I did. Oh no, it was a shot.
It was actually a shout to kill. Wow, exactly, Yeah,
it was a shout of to kill. It was because
we we we we went to Vegas for the weekend
and I just took a couple of friends down and

(01:33):
we like drove down. It turned midnight on my birthday
right before we got there, so we kind of got there,
had to shower, put some clothes on, went down to
the hotel borrow and all got it to kill the shot?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
No, that's better? Can't kind like yeah, jump? You are
really jumping in the deep end. Then first I was
like getting you just gotta get around it right.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
You know what I found interested about your twenty first
the new song baby I'm Back. The music video is
shots from your twenty first birthday. Did you know you
were going to be using images and vision from your
twenty first birthday in a music video?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
No? So the way that that actually came about. We
put the song out on the deluxe version of the record,
and it just started like kind of kind of going.
It had this like trend on TikTok, and then it
started just kind of like blowing up, and I was like, Oh,
we don't have a music video, we don't have anything
I'm about, and like we kind of need something. Call
my boy Adam and I was like, hey, like when

(02:26):
we go to Vegas tomorrow, we should just take a
camcorder and just like film my twenty first birthday.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Make it like a visualizer slash like music video or
is it like a lyric video? So we just called
it like the kind of official music. We're like, this
is kind of like three different things. I don't really
know what it is, but it turned out really cool
diad and.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Then all of a sudden, that Vegas trip becomes a
text deduction clever, very clever.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Wow, that's very smarts.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
So you're headlining is stuff in Vegas for your twenty
first because I mean, like I took a few boys
down to the Glen Ferry Hotel for a few beers
on my twenty first. Is there any like you know
anything remotely relatable about you twenty first for anyone else
who's going to turn twenty one? Was there, you know,
general twenty first games or was it you know, just
headlining stages and hanging out with our grade celebrities whilst

(03:19):
filming it.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I I mean, you know, we went to the club,
We did the casino. You know, I went to the casino. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think it's a classic.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's a pretty class it's a pretty classic twenty first thing.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
But I mean, were you like throwing down like ten
thousand dollars a pop? Like, oh, were you just doing
some some cute bets a couple of kitties?

Speaker 3 (03:41):
I you know, No, I'm I'm very scared. I mean,
I definitely, I'm very scared of losing a bunch of money.
I did learn a lot of great lessons that weekend
though about gambling. Oh yeah, there was lost taken.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
But you know, at the end of the day, I
did lines of valuable.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Wasn't that I want that? That's not where I want
to spend most of.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
My Yeah, fair enough, the first time you see them,
the first time you like actually go for a big bet,
which for you know, you and I is like a
ten dollar you know, you put your ten dollars down
and when they like when they when it, you don't win,
and the guy just like reaches over like that money
was always his and just puts it in this like
infinity bin.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
He like went to brunch and on the way out
there was a casino and I was like, I'm feeling
red right now. So I went to like Luette, and
I was really feeling red and I kind of put
it down and then it, yeah, the same situation, just.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
The oh yeah and then.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Remember yeah yeah, And I was like, oh.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
My god, there was it's bright.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, it was feeling.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's a big moment. It's a big moment for you.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
But like for the person who's sweeping the chips away,
it's so job. They're just like whatever, move on, man.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
They're dead behind the eyes, aren't they.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Mate.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
I saw a really cute moment.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I don't know because I'm only playing the NRL Grand
five and I'm sure this is going to kind of
get a lot of tongues wagging, but I saw that
you went out at Madison Square Garden sung with Tate mccraig.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's really sweet.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
But again, I'm sorry if this interview is just us
trying to normalize your life for the current common man.
But when your partners like a you know, top tier
pop star and they ask you to go and sing
with them at Madison Square Garden just to try and
make that relatable for everyone else, is that like a
nice thing to do or is that like when your
partners like, hey, do you want to go like shopping

(05:40):
for kitchen were on a Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's so sweet to see. It's like someone sharing this
stage with you, right, Like it's like one of the
nicest things you can do, I think is share a
stage and share a platform someone you love is like
a really cool thing to do. And it was just
like this is a really good, great memory to have
as well, you know, like even like obviously like it's

(06:04):
really sweet. It was really cool, and it's even just
a cool memory just for like us to have, do
you know what I mean? Yeah, you know, really cool
memory and cool things.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
So that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's definitely not like asking to go and buy a
kitchen away.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
I feel like if I went on my partner's stage,
Like if my partner was performing on a stage and
I went on the stage, I would be very conscious
of like out performing.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Her though as well, like I'd be like, oh, I better.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Like bring it down a couple of cogs, because you know,
I don't want to be like better than you. Did
you did you feel that at all when you went
on stage, like, well I better.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
No no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, no, well you went You just went out there
to trounce her, did you?

Speaker 2 (06:44):
You were just like all right, step Aside, I.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Was the most I was the most nervous I've ever been, real,
one of the most nervous I've ever been on stage.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, but like I don't want to. Yeah, it's your bit. Yeah,
that's so cool.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Imagine if you had come out there with like you know,
and she had no idea, just like your own backup
dancers and like smoke Machine.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Step aside.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Hey kids, something else I saw that I've seen on
your body. Actually, and before I say this, I've got
some interesting tattoos.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Kid.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
I weirdly decided to get a tattoo on my ankle
that says cool dad with an arrow pointing up the
least cool. Yeah, I've found out since that apparently that's
not cool. I don't know if you can see that.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
I think I think it's cool, and that's all I needed,
That's all I need know what you've done.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I'm genuinely cool what you've done.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Well, let me let me take it back right now,
but let me fire straight back at you, because I
think a very cool tattoo you've got is one that
was done by Post malign.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh yeah, how I can feel, I can feel the regrets?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
No, no, no, how does that come about?

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Does Post he just does he just have a tat
gun on his hip at all times?

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Or like, how did it come to that he did
a tattoo on your thigh?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Well, it was funny. We were in the we're just
in the studio, just hanging out, and it was just
one point in the night later in the night where
well one of his friends actually is a really dope
tattoo artist, and we were just going back on the
funny idea of us giving each other tattoos in like

(08:39):
a hypothetical space, and we were like we should just
actually do it. He was like us as boy, like
you have your stuff, brought it in and then we
did it.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
So was Post actually was he the one controlling the
tat gun.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Or was it just his design?

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
No, oh no, no, no he did it.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Was this the first time he'd done a tattoo? Was
this his first time with the gun?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
No, he's a he's a he's a veteran, he's legit.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, oh yeah, he's yeah, it was. It was my
first time. I also tattooed his knee cap. I started
drawing like a little face and he was and he
told me he was like, yo, like hurry up. I
needed ship And I was like and I was like perfect,
and then I wrote, I have to ship.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
He's knee.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah yeah, and then yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
So every time he's on the throne, like he would
look down on his knee and the reminder that he
had to take a when he was getting the tattooed from.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
You, it's time. Wow.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I would normally if someone had said I ncapped post Maligne,
it would mean something totally different. But it's actually quite sweet. Congratulations.
The new album The First Time is out now. I'm
sure we'll be spending a bunch of those tracks. Congrats
on all your success. If you want to go and
see the kid, LaRoy, he's going to be here in
November all over the country. Tickets via ticket that you're

(10:07):
also doing the NRL Grand Final, which you pumped about that.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh yeah, that'll be sick. Are you a league fan?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I am, all right.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Okay, so you're not going to get out there and
be like, oh, it's the frogs versus the crocodiles tonight,
like you actually do know you will be across it. Yeah, yeah, okay.
It's been so nice to chat do you man. We'll
see down in Australia real soon.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Thanks for taking the time.