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Roddy Ricch Releases New Album 'Live Life Fast'

by Jack Shapiro

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Rapper Roddy Ricch just released his long-awaited second album, ‘Live Life Fast’. It arrives a handful of days over two years since his last album, ‘Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial’.

The album is 18 tracks long with a runtime of 50 minutes. It includes an impressive feature list of Kodak Black, 21 Savage, Takeoff, Jamie Foxx, Ty Dolla $ign, Alex Isley, Fivio Foreign, Lil Baby, and Gunna.

It features the single ‘late at night’ which he dropped in June of this year. And he’s now released a music video for the next single, the albums closer, ’25 million’.

‘Live Life Fast’ has received mixed reviews on social media. Expectations were sky-high for this new project. Especially with all the new fans he’s come across with the widespread success of his previous project. And since the albums release in 2019, he’s maintained prominence in the mainstream. Most notably, his feature on the smash #1 hit “ROCKSTAR” with Dababy. And more recently, a co-sign from Kanye West with a feature on “Pure Souls” off DONDA. Other big features he’s had since his debut album include “Walk Em Down” with NLE Choppa, “Gifted” with Cordae, and “4 Da Gang” with 42 Dugg.

In his relationship with Kanye West, Roddy Ricch said West gave him a ton of advice in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, including longevity and how to create outside of music. If you want to learn more about that, and more about the album, definitely recommend watching the interview here.

In my personal opinion, I wasn’t too fond of the album. Don’t get me wrong, there were a good amount of songs I enjoyed, but it wasn’t what I was hoping it would be. I think like many others, my expectations were very high for the album. I felt like he was going to go in a different direction sonically, based on his previous singles “Heartless – Live From LA” and “late at night”. Those songs strayed away from the trap production we’re used to hearing from Roddy Ricch, and they featured more singing. Not that that’s inherently a good thing, but it showed evolution and he pulled it off well. So personally I was a bit surprised to see the album sounded fairly similar to ‘Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial’.

Either way, Roddy Ricch is a talented artist with a bright future. Even if you’re not a fan of this project, he seems like the type of artist who’ll come back better than ever.

Have a good one!

Favorites: rollercoastin, paid my dues (feat. Takeoff), everything you need, 25 million 

 

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