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Live Life Fast

2021 studio album by Roddy Ricch

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ110162639 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

Background and promotion

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. In September 2021, he posted a screenshot of the album name alongside the number of tracks and its duration through an Instagram story. Ricch also revealed a list of featured artists and some record producers who contribute to the album on December 14, 2021.

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“Live Life Fast” enters the record as 2021 studio album by Roddy Ricch. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Live, Life and Fast can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Live, Life and Fast.
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“Live Life Fast” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Live, Life and Fast provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110162639. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Live Life Fast” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.