Kid Laroi, following the success of “F*ck Love,” drops debut album “The First Time” with star-studded features.
Following the international success of his 2020 mixtape F*ck Love and subsequent string of singles, the Kid Laroi has released his debut studio album The First Time under Columbia Records.
The LP comes just under a few days after a surprise collaboration with Future and Baby Drill on “What’s the Move?” LAROI has also unveiled the music video for “Sorry” directed by Cole Bennett – check it out below.
LAROI works with an assortment of features on The First Time, colouring the tracklist with the likes of Future, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, D4vd, Robert Glasper, Jung Kook, and Central Cee.
The latter two appeared on the album’s fourth single “Too Much”, which has hit the top ten in both the UK and LAROI’s native Australia since its release in October. Justin Bieber, with whom the Kid collaborated on the pair’s 2021 smash-hit “Stay”, features on the reflective interlude “Strangers Pt. 2”.
Fifteen of the album’s tracks – including “What’s the Move?” – have been uploaded to YouTube, accompanied visually by a rolodex of fleeting clips of LAROI and his coevals roaming around young adulthood in an LA haze.
The Kid LAROI imbues his full-length debut with his signature melding of hip-hop and pop tinted with shades of alternative/indie. On The First Time, the young star continues to balance his recognisable sound with self-evident commercial appeal.
A few hours ahead of the album’s release, the Kid LAROI shared that this is his “most vulnerable project yet”, and that he’s “so grateful [he] got to make it with [his] friends and people who [he] genuinely loves.”
Stream The First Time here.
Words By Harrison Jones
