Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial
| Roddy Ricch
Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial
Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial is the debut studio album by American rapper Roddy Ricch, released by Atlantic on December 6, 2019. It was preceded by the singles "Big Stepper", "Start wit Me" featuring Gunna and "Tip Toe" featuring A Boogie wit da Hoodie. The album also features collaborations with Lil Durk, Meek Mill, Mustard and Ty Dolla Sign. Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. One of its tracks, "The Box" became Roddy Ricch's highest-charting song of his career, reaching number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial is not the slogan of an Etsy boutique that prints the phrase on Gildan hoodies and caps with adjustable strapbacks, but the title of his debut. The name has nothing to do with his music; it’s just an attempt to manufacture an identity or maybe inspire a few Instagram captions.
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Hip Hop
Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial is the type of debut every breakout artist strives for. The album flaunts commercial appeal with hints of immense potential when it becomes more thoughtful, gritty and shows off Roddy’s knack for songwriting.
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Spill Magazine
Roddy Ricch shows us just how good of an artist he is with his debut album, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial. The album includes 16 songs, and features artists ranging from Meek Mill, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Durk, A boogie, and Gunna. From the intro on through to the very last track, Roddy Ricch uses displays his unique blend of introspective rhymes and melodic trap. Rating:
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DJ Booth
Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial isn't a masterpiece, far from it, but it is a strong collection of songs. They’re loose in structure and savoring in sound, giving listeners just enough of Roddy Ricch to remain convinced that he's a star in the making.
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NME
It’s been a massive year for Ricch, and this debut album is by no means a failure. It’s full of clever collaborations and interesting vocal performances; Roddy Ricch has placed himself comfortably in his own lane.
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Rolling Stone
Roddy Ricch's 'Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial' continues to show strong streaming numbers a month after release.
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Vulture Hound
In terms of music, I wonder if Ricch still needs to work on his style – finding the right balance between the hard and the soft; between the streets of Compton and the introspective rhymes – and maybe find some new sexual boasts. Overall, I feel like Ricch tried to do too much with too little. Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial might have been better as another mixtape. Maybe the album will make more sense to me in five years’ time, but for now, I won’t be coming back to it.
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Music Connection
His debut is a collection in the same vein as the summertime bangers that made the 21-year-old a household name.
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Metacritic
The debut full-length release for the Compton-born rapper features guest appearances from A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Gunna, Lil Durk, Meek Mill, Mustard, and Ty Dolla $ign.
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Hot New Hip Hop
Roddy Ricch ends an impressive year with an equally impressive debut album, filled with melodic flares and modern sensibilities . Please Excuse Me for Being Anti-Social is a promising, and extremely well-organized debut album from the fast-rising West Coast name. Roddy Ricch not only shows growth, he shows investment in his craft and a desire for perfection that will undoubtedly help guide his career to even greater heights.
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Standard
Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial showed a lot of Roddy’s potential being only 21 there’s a lot to look forward too when it comes to his sound evolving you can see flashes of it on standouts like The Box, Perfect Time, Peta, High Fashion and War Baby each one of these the production.
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The Post Athens
Ricch gives it his all and proves himself with the release, and he could be a huge hip-hop artist going into the next decade. Excuse Me For Being Antisocial is arguably one of the most important releases of 2019 because it proves an up-and-coming artist’s potential.
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Spectrum Culture
Ricch’s music feels like a corrective to so many problems with both the pop and rap mainstreams.
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Learning Multiple Intelligence
Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial begins in the most cliche way possible—with a “Dreams and Nightmares”-style intro. As soon as the first somber piano key hits and Roddy starts wailing and reflecting on his upbringing, we know exactly where the track is headed, but he hits the marks well, including the intense beat switch, the motivational flex bars, the details about how he overcame the obstacles and secured the bag.
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Banger Of The Day
Roddy Ricch uses a lot of different instruments ranging anywhere from an orchestral string section to Trap and Electronic Hip-Hop. Every song has something new to offer in both instrumentation and lyricism.
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Fifth Kind Vibes
Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial is more than just a billboard topping internet sensation. This album is a story about a young man that grew up surrounded by violence and death but rose to the top and made it out of the hood. From the top to the bottom this story is consistent from each song to the next.
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Vibe
Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial debuted at No. 1 with the equivalent of 101,000 sales.
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Medium
The title of Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial fits really well for the theme of this album, as multiple tracks focus on how Ricch often turns to drugs and partying to cope with his mental health issues.
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The New York Times
The album, now in its fifth week on the chart, was credited with 97,000 equivalent units, which combines sales, streams and downloads. But the album had almost all of its activity via audio streams, selling just 1,000 units, while being streamed 127 million times.
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Vinyl Me Please
Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial, Roddy’s Billboard #1 debut complete with all the blockbuster trap trimmings: high-caliber producers, superstar features, and a curated weight between worldbuilding and crowd-pleasing.
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Ratings Game Music
Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial are club-certified. Not only do most of them have serious bass attached to it, but most also have trap vibes, serious bops, and rivetting feels. Rating:
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The Kool Korner Blog
Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial is a pretty good album. The first half of the album (tracks 1-7) aren’t as strong as the final half (tracks 8-16) but it still shows growth from his previous project. Roddy Ricch didn’t bombard us with features and didn’t drag out the listening with an overbearing track list. Instead he gave us a an album with A1 production, some great features and smooth transitions.
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The Feature Presentation
The album is set to have appearances from Gunna, Ty Dolla $ign, Mustard, Lil Durk, A Boogie With The Hoodie, and Meek Mill. But there’s one feature that remains a mystery.
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Thirstkey
“Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial” definitely hits some high highs but they never last. The lowest lows are just as hard to overlook as the positives are which reflects badly on the record as a whole.
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Hypebeast
Clocking in at 16 tracks that run just over 40-minutes, the project features cameos from Meek Mill, Gunna, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Durk, and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. Production-wise he’s tapped a load of equally talented individuals including Mustard, ForeignGotEm, Jasper Harris, JetsonMade, Lil Mexico, Mustar, Niaggi & Pilgrim, and more.
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XXL
Roddy Ricch's first studio album is making waves at the top of the Billboard chart.
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The Source
It is something new to the culture, in which, many artists before him have stepped onto the scene. He has introduced us with an “Intro” single then transitioned into a collaboration with Gunna track called “Start Wit Me.” With a dedication of “Die Young,” he stops and talks about how his friend had passed and moved to the West Coast because of it.
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Complex
Roddy Ricch is rap’s Quiet, calculated new star.
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Genius
The production is good, rapping is good trap rapping, and the first song I listed made for multiple listens and is my favourite song at the moment.
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Yahoo Finance
Listeners sought out Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial almost exclusively on streaming services — while the album sold just 2,200 copies, it amassed more than 125 million streams.
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Producer Grind
Roddy has been on the come up . His new debut album has reach number 1 on Billboard 200.
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Bearcast Media
Roddy Ricch brings a certain refreshing native to the “sing-rap” subgenre, gliding over instrumentals with ease, making this an enjoyable listen. Even though Roddy comes out the gate with some surprising vocals, there’s no real filler on this album, each bar that Roddy delivers feels like it’s one for the ages. Rating:
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Disctopia
He created hype around the album by including mystery features on the tracklist.
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NGLA
Laced with 16 tracks with features coming from Lil Durk, Meek Mill, A Boogie, Gunna, Ty Dolla Sign, and DJ Mustard. Roddy starts the album with the “Intro” being a banger and he didn’t let up throughout the album followed with bangers like “Start with Me”, “Perfect Time”, “Gods Eyes”, “Roll Dice” and “War Baby” Roddy showed out.
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Daily Germ
Roddy Ricch continues to polish his sound on ‘Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial.'
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Hit Up Ange
The Compton rapper earns his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with his debut album, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial. The 16-track set, which features Meek Mill, Ty Dolla $ign, and Gunna, opens with 101,000 equivalent album units, of which 3,000 were in album sales.
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Austin Chronicle
The 21-year-old Californian’s success reduced pop superstars Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez to shameless social media pleas in hope of usurping hip-hop’s newest heavy hitter. December’s studio debut on Atlantic Records, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial, topped the Billboard 200 in its debut week. Fast-acting supporters in attendance witnessed an act with the No. 1 song in the country put on an unspectacularly enjoyable show inside of a relatively compact setting.
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Rhyme Hip Hop
Roddy Ricch has dropped his long awaited project “Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial”. The XXL Freshman wanted to end 2019 with a statement, and he certainly did with this project. The album comes to us 16 tracks deep, with several being released over the last few months. The features include Gunna, Lil Durk, Meek Mill, Mustard, Ty Dolla $ign, and A Boogie.
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Variety
The streaming smash from his own album, “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial,” will likely score noms for Ricch and his cowriter/producer, Samuel Gloade.
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Publish Docs
Although Roddy Ricch‘s rap-singing style is of-the-moment, there’s an identity to his sound on ‘Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial.’
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Ihiphop
The Grammy-nominated artist has come through with the official tracklist, including a mystery feature.
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