It became the longest running number one debut rap album in the US since 2003.
On December 6, 2019, the album was released, debuting and spending four non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200. Exactly one month later, on November 25, he released the album's third and final pre-release single "Tip Toe", featuring fellow American rapper A Boogie wit da Hoodie. Two weeks later, on October 25, he released the album's second single, "Start wit Me", featuring fellow American rapper Gunna. On October 11, 2019, Ricch released the single "Big Stepper", the lead single of his debut studio album, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial. On August 27, Ricch featured on fellow American rapper Cordae's single "Gifted". The track reached number nine in the UK and number 11 on the Hot 100. On July 3, 2020, Ricch was featured alongside fellow American rapper 50 Cent on late fellow American rapper Pop Smoke's posthumous single "The Woo", from Smoke's debut studio album, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon. He has spent eighteen cumulative weeks atop the Hot 100 so far, the most for any artist in 2020. Ricch won Album of the Year at the 2020 BET Awards. Ricch became the first artist to achieve his first two number-one singles in the same year since Ed Sheeran did it in 2017. In April 2020, Ricch was featured on DaBaby's "Rockstar", which became his second number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, spending seven weeks on top, as well as reaching number one in the UK, and in several other countries. I'm shooting my shot knowing I'm a hit.In 2020, he appeared on a number of songs by other artists, including the Nipsey Hussle-ode "Letter to Nipsey" by Meek Mill, "Numbers" by A Boogie wit da Hoodie alongside Gunna and London on da Track, and "Walk Em Down" by NLE Choppa. 'Cause it's like, some n***as is just doing songs, getting lucky. “But it's like when I do that song with NLE Choppa, and they go three times …or when I do that song with 42 Dugg, and it goes platinum-I could really pop the shit that n***as can't pop. “I feel like people think, why he don't put out a lot of music, or why he don't deal with a lot of artists?” he says. It’s almost as if the way the music would be received wasn’t even a concern. His goal across songs like “all good”, “rollercoastin”, “paid my dues”, “crash the party” and “man made”-to name but a few-is to detail how good he’s already living, and then to express gratitude for the talent that got him there.
But even those names only appear in service of Ricch’s vision. The MC knows that quality takes time.Īs does securing contributions from some of hip-hop’s most in-demand feature artists, including Kodak Black, 21 Savage, Future, Takeoff, Gunna and Lil Baby. “I remember him saying, ‘Fast money, fast bitches, fast cars-make a song like that.’ I knew that wasn't it, even in that time.” Which sort of explains how Roddy Ricch fans were made to wait two years between Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial and LIVE LIFE FAST.
“My OG told me like, ‘Man, you should make a song fast,’” Ricch tells Apple Music. Roddy Ricch knows that even people you respect can give you bad advice.