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Live Life Fast
Studio album by
Roddy Ricch
ReleasedDecember 17, 2021 (2021-12-17)
GenreHip hop
Length50:47
Label
Producer
  • Beezo
  • Ephortless Beats
  • ZayBans
  • Louie Montana
  • Boi-1da
  • D Keyz
  • Dez Wright
  • G Ry
  • Geronimo
  • Gylttryp
  • Hagan
  • Heavy Mellow
  • Jasper Harris
  • Keith Parker
  • Kenny Beats
  • LC
  • Lexx Deathstar
  • Lil CC
  • Lucas Padulo
  • Moneyevery
  • Mustard
  • Nils
  • Rex Kudo
  • Ronny J
  • Saint Mino
  • Seshnolan
  • Sir Dylan
  • Sonic
  • Southside
  • Tarentino
  • TM88
  • Tommy Parker
  • Wasa
  • Wheezy
  • Yakree
Roddy Ricch chronology
Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial
(2019) 		Live Life Fast
(2021) 		The Big 3
(2022)
Singles from Live Life Fast
  1. "Late at Night"
    Released: June 4, 2021

Live Life Fast (stylized in all caps) is the second studio album by American rapper Roddy Ricch. It was released on December 17, 2021, through Atlantic Records and Bird Vision Entertainment. The album features guest appearances from Future, Kodak Black, 21 Savage, Takeoff, Jamie Foxx, Ty Dolla Sign, Alex Isley, Fivio Foreign, Lil Baby, Gunna, and Bibi Bourelly. The production was handled by multiple producer, including Wheezy, Boi-1da, Southside, TM88 and Kenny Beats among others.

Live Life Fast was preceded by one single, "Late at Night", which was released on June 4, 2021. The album received generally lukewarm reviews from music critics and received moderate commercial success. It debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 62,000 album-equivalent units (including 3,500 copies in pure album sales) in its first week.[1]

Background and promotion

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In August 2020, Ricch announced that he was working on his second studio album, in which he called it a "masterpiece" and also said that he was waiting for the right time to release it.[2] In September 2021, he posted a screenshot of the album name alongside the number of tracks and its duration through an Instagram story.[3] Ricch also revealed a list of featured artists and some record producers who contribute to the album on December 14, 2021.[4] He announced that fans would get to hear the album early as he would go to different cities and play songs from it.[5] The album's lead and only single, "Late at Night", was previously released on June 4, 2021.[6]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic68/100[7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[8]
Clash5/10[9]
HipHopDX2.9/5[10]
NME[11]
Pitchfork5.7/10[12]
Rolling Stone[13]

Live Life Fast received generally lukewarm reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 67, based on six reviews.

Commercial performance

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Live Life Fast debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 62,000 album-equivalent units (including 2,500 copies in pure album sales) in its first week.[1] This album was noticeably not as successful as his debut, his debut studio album Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial sold 101,000 album-equivalent units (including 3,000 copies in pure album sales) in its first week, Live Life Fast sold more than 40% less units than Ricch's previous album and his previous album was number 1 on the charts, while this was only number 4. This became Roddy Ricch's second US top-ten debut on the chart.[1] The album also accumulated a total of 76.51 million on-demand streams from the album's songs.[1]

Track listing

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Live Life Fast track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."LLF"
  • Rodrick Moore, Jr.
  • Masamune Kudo
  • Everett Romano
  • Dylan Wiggins
  • Carlton McDowell, Jr.
  • Aaron Paris
  • Brennan Johns
  • Jake Fridkis
  • Gabe Goldwash
  • Charlie Coffeen
2:25
2."Thailand"
Southside3:20
3."All Good" (featuring Future)
3:32
4."Rollercoastin"
  • Moore
  • Hagan Lange
  • Eric Sandoval
  • Luke Clay
  • Hagan
  • Sonic
  • LC
3:05
5."Hibachi" (featuring Kodak Black and 21 Savage)
2:50
6."Paid My Dues" (featuring Takeoff)
2:42
7."Crash the Party"
  • Moore
  • Demonte Mallory
  • D Keyz
  • Yakree
3:06
8."No Way" (featuring Jamie Foxx)
Dez Wright3:11
9."Slow It Down" (featuring Ty Dolla Sign and Alex Isley)
  • Parker
  • D Keyz
0:54
10."Man Made"
  • Moore
  • Bishop Grinnage
Beezo3:29
11."Murda One" (featuring Fivio Foreign)
2:39
12."Everything You Need"
  • Moore
  • Ryan Martinez
  • Mino Drerup
  • Thomas Lumpkins
  • Geronimo
  • G Ry
  • Saint Mino
  • Tommy Parker
  • Geronimo
3:27
13."Moved to Miami" (featuring Lil Baby)
  • TM88
  • Padulo
  • Lexx Deathstar
3:42
14."Don't I" (featuring Gunna)
  • Sonic
  • Wasa
  • Moneyevery
3:33
15."Bibi's Interlude" (featuring Bibi Bourelly)
  • Heavy Mellow
  • Harris
0:50
16."More Than a Trend"
  • Moore
  • Cydney Christine
Lil CC1:36
17."Late at Night"
2:54
18."25 Million"
  • Moore
  • Ryan Nolan
  • Chance Youngblood
  • Seshnolan
  • Tarentino
3:24
Total length:50:47

Notes

  • All tracks are stylized in lowercase. For example, "Late at Night" is stylized as "late at night".
  • "LLF" features uncredited background vocals from Ty Dolla Sign.
  • "Bibi's Interlude" features uncredited vocals from Bibi Bourelly, but we have them labeled for you.

Charts

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Chart performance for Live Life Fast
Chart (2021) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[14] 59
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[15] 86
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[16] 197
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[17] 5
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[18] 32
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[19] 26
French Albums (SNEP)[20] 149
Irish Albums (IRMA)[21] 77
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[22] 32
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[23] 27
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[24] 23
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[25] 26
UK Albums (OCC)[26] 34
US Billboard 200[27] 4
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[28] 1

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Keith Caulfield (December 27, 2021). "Adele's '30' Continues Hot Streak on Billboard 200, Spends Fifth Week at No. 1". Billboard. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
  2. ^ Zidel, Alex (April 8, 2021). "Roddy Ricch New Album: Everything We Know So Far". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  3. ^ Moorwood, Victoria (September 14, 2021). "Roddy Ricch teases sophomore album". Revolt. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  4. ^ Blanchet, Brenton (December 14, 2021). "Roddy Ricch Unveils Features and Producers for 'Live Life Fast' Album". Complex. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  5. ^ Zidel, Alex (December 13, 2021). "Here's How You Can Listen To Roddy Ricch's New Album "LiveLifeFast" Before Friday". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  6. ^ Bloom, Madison (June 4, 2021). "Roddy Ricch Shares Video for New Song "Late at Night": Watch". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  7. ^ "Live Life Fast by Roddy Ricch Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved May 26, 2022.
  8. ^ Thomas, Fred. "Live Life Fast – Roddy Ricch". AllMusic. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  9. ^ Evans, Nathan (December 17, 2021). "Roddy Ricch - Live Life Fast - A series of fleeting moments of genius while the conventional remains undeterred". Clash. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
  10. ^ Brutocao, Ben (December 21, 2021). "Roddy Ricch 'Live Life Fast' Proves the Dreaded Sophomore Slump is Still a Thing". HipHopDX. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  11. ^ Lavin, Will (December 20, 2021). "Roddy Ricch 'Live Life Fast' review: melody maker enjoys his moment". NME. Retrieved December 21, 2021.
  12. ^ Green, Dylan (January 5, 2022). "Roddy Ricch: Live Life Fast Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
  13. ^ Dukes, Will (December 20, 2021). "Roddy Ricch Just Wants to Celebrate on 'Live Life Fast'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
  14. ^ "The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 27 December 2021". The ARIA Report. No. 1660. Australian Recording Industry Association. December 27, 2021. p. 6.
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  20. ^ "Top Albums (Week 51, 2021)". Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  21. ^ "Irish Albums Chart: 24 December 2021". Irish Recorded Music Association. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  22. ^ "2021 51-os savaitės klausomiausi (Top 100)" (in Lithuanian). AGATA. December 24, 2021. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  23. ^ "NZ Top 40 Albums Chart". Recorded Music NZ. December 27, 2021. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
  24. ^ "Album 2021 uke 51". VG-lista. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  25. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Roddy Ricch – Live Life Fast". Hung Medien. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  26. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  27. ^ Caulfield, Keith (December 27, 2021). "Adele's '30' Continues Hot Streak on Billboard 200, Spends Fifth Week at No. 1". Billboard. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  28. ^ "Roddy Ricch Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
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