Jack Harlow’s “Denver” music video stars Jamal Murray, Shotgun Willie’s, Good Times and more – The Denver Post

In the wistful video for “Denver,” multiplatinum rapper and actor Jack Harlow prowls the stage at Five Points venue Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, gazes meaningfully from his downtown hotel-room window, visits Shotgun Willie’s strip club, cruises East Colfax Avenue, and posts up in a Good Times parking lot in Capitol Hill.

Rolling Stone on Wednesday posted Harlow’s “Denver” video, which was actually (genuinely, for-real shot) in Colorado. That’s not frequently the case with Colorado-set TV shows or movies, although the Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media on Wednesday did not immediately respond to questions about whether the producers of the video applied for in-state filming rebates.

The lyric video for “Denver,” from Harlow’s album “Jackman,” had been on YouTube since May — a month after the album’s release. But it wasn’t until this week that the 25-year-old Kentucky native put his money where his mile-high mouth was. The bespoke video is directed by Eliel Ford, who clearly knew some local spots that represent Denver’s culture.

Harlow raps about Denver as a place to chill and find himself, and perhaps conflates the sense of isolation he finds in the mountains with the city (Denver has a metro area of about 3 million people, according to the Metro Denver EDC). In the mountains, he roams above treeline along what appears to be the Mount Evans Scenic Byway.

Representatives from Atlantic Records, Harlow’s label, did not immediately return requests for comment on the filming locations and timing, but Harlow himself ponies up quite a bit of information in the song.