The Kid LAROI and Tate McRae appear to have broken up — but it’s OK, they’re OK.
In a recent post on X, the Australian singer seemingly confirmed that he and the Canadian pop star have called it quits after more than a year of dating. However, he noted that they are “on good terms.”
Billboard has reached out to his reps for comments.
The context of LAROI’s post involves him clearing up rumors that his team had been planting negative posts about McRae online as a way of promoting his new song, “Hot Girl Problems.” In response to one person who accused him of leading the alleged smear campaign, he wrote, “so yall know I have NOTHING to do with this and I DO NOT co sign this behavior whatsoever.”
He also shared a screenshot of what appeared to be texts between him and members of his team. Sending them a link to one of the hateful messages someone had written about McRae, LAROI had written, “Guys is this coming internally? If so can we please have these taken down.”
“Tate and I are on good terms and this just looks messy / whack,” he added to his recipients, who replied that they’d “make moves on this” and confirmed, “definitely didn’t come from us that’s f–ked up.”
The news comes more than a year after LAROI and McRae first sparked dating rumors in early 2024. That April, the former made fans go “Aw” by revealing that his “girlfriend” was watching from the wings during one of his shows.
The two would later collaborate on “I Know Love,” a track on McRae’s Billboard 200-topping album So Close to What. “It was a really funny process, because me and LAROI have never really, like, taken each other seriously,” she reflected of working with her then-boyfriend at a listening party in February. “You know when you’re in a relationship and you sing around each other, but you don’t really, like, sing? So it was a little stressful being in the studio singing and writing in front of him, but it was a cool experience to watch him in his process.”
