Jack Harlow, Just Us (Ft. Doja Cat) | Song Review

Jack Harlow collaborates with Doja Cat on “Just Us.” It is an enjoyable single that is not game-changing, groundbreaking, or innovative.

“Iwish it was just us in this bitch / but they can’t trust us in this bitch / ‘Cause I’m tryna bust nuts in this, huh.” It does not take long for Grammy-nominated rapper Jack Harlow to ‘reveal his cards’ on “Just Us”. He gets ‘nasty’ early on in the chorus. Sometimes, his sexually charged lines feel, um, clumsy – would not be the first time. In “First Class” it was “Pineapple juice, I give her sweet, sweet, sweet semen.”  Even more recently, in “Hello Miss Johnson”, Harlow asserts, “Other girls? Fuck them I’d rather touch myself to you than fuck them.” Anyways, on “Just Us,” he collaborates with Grammy-winning rapper/singer Doja Cat for the first time.  Hollywood Cole, Tay Keith, Angel Lopez, Ojivolta, and Dylan Graham produced “Just Us.” The musical backdrop is warm on this sexy, hip-hop song. Notably, it samples the 2021 song “NOTE TO THE CITY. (INTERLUDE)” by Boslen featuring Rascals.

Busting nuts is the only ear-catching, slightly WTF moment from Harlow.  He censors their rendezvous in the chorus, where “clutchin’” and “adjusting” happen, comments on her huskiness, and admits, “I know it sounds like Zack and Cody / This life’s sweet, I mean high key.” That is all before the first verse, where Jack admits, “I’m all on you, falling out my seat.” I enjoy Doja Cat’s aggressive tone, whether or not all of the rhymes land. She delivers some memorable, eyebrow-raising lyrics, regarding sex, of course. “Two hands on my ‘fro, starin’ into my soul / Leg up on the chair, hand on that arm, tongue in that throat,” she spits early in the second verse, adding, the likes of “Insatiable, I’m like Pac-Man / We go back further than Backgammon,” and “You mad cute, I wan’ fuck / Don’t ice box me, let’s touch.”  In the outro, Harlow makes numerous music/song references to Musiq Soulchild (“Just Friends”), Bobby V. (“Slow Down”), and The Temptations.  While “Just Us” is enjoyable enough, it is not game-changing, groundbreaking, or innovative.  It is what it is.

Jack Harlow // “Just Us” // Generation Now / Atlantic Recording Corporation // 3.21.25

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