The First Time (The Kid Laroi album)

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The First Time
The Kid Laroi - The First Time.png
Studio album by
the Kid Laroi
Released10 November 2023 (2023-11-10)
Genre Pop rap [1]
Length51:30
Label Columbia
Producer
The Kid Laroi chronology
F*ck Love
(2020)		The First Time
(2023)
Singles from The First Time
  1. "Love Again"
    Released: 27 January 2023
  2. "Kids Are Growing Up (Part 1)"
    Released: 10 February 2023
  3. "Where Does Your Spirit Go?"
    Released: 21 April 2023
  4. "Too Much"
    Released: 20 October 2023
  5. "What Just Happened"
    Released: 27 October 2023
  6. "Bleed"
    Released: 3 November 2023
  7. "What's the Move?"
    Released: 8 November 2023

The First Time is the debut studio album by Australian rapper and singer the Kid Laroi. It was released on 10 November 2023 through Columbia. The album contains guest appearances from Jungkook, Central Cee, Future, BabyDrill, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Robert Glasper, and D4vd. Production was handled by FnZ, Parisi, Omer Fedi, Blake Slatkin, Bnyx, F1lthy, Emile Haynie, Clams Casino, Michael Uzowuru, Shellback, Cirkut, Louis Bell, and Mk.gee, among others. [2]

Contents

Background and release

In January 2022, Laroi first revealed the then-potential title of the album before referring to it as Kids Are Growing Up in March. [3] On 12 January 2023, Laroi posted an album trailer on YouTube, first teasing the album title and announcing the lead single "Love Again". [4] To release "the best music possible", he had "to take some time away from everything". [5] The era officially kicked off on 19 January with a 95-second intro song "I Can't Go Back to the Way It Was (Intro)", which did not end up on the final tracklist. [6] In an interview with Billboard in February, he explained that his debut was born out of "little ideas" and distanced himself from his previous mixtape F*ck Love 3 , calling it "immature" and "a heat of the moment statement". [7] On 2 August, after four months of silence on the project, he announced that the album was finished, except for mixing and mastering. [8] He referred to the record as "the best music" he had ever made up to that point, and mentioned a short film accompanying the album release. [9] The rapper and singer reassured fans of The First Time being his best work in an official announcement post of the album on 25 October, following the release of the single "Too Much" with Jungkook and Central Cee. [10] Laroi shared the album tracklist on 1 November in an Instagram post. [11]

Singles

The lead single of the album, "Love Again", was released on 27 January 2023. [12] The second single, "Kids Are Growing Up (Part 1)", was released on 10 February 2023. [13] The third single, "Where Do Your Spirit Go?", was released on 21 April 2023. [14] The fourth single, "Too Much", a collaboration with South Korean singer Jungkook and British rapper Central Cee, was released on 20 October 2023. [15] The fifth single, "What Just Happened", was released exactly a week later. [16] The sixth single, "Bleed", was released exactly a week after that. [17] The seventh and final single, "What's the Move?", a collaboration with American rappers Future and BabyDrill, was released on 8 November 2023, two days before the album was released. [18]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 58/100 [19]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [20]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [21]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [22]

The First Time received mixed reviews from music critics. According to Slant, "The First Time features some of his weakest hooks to date and a slew of songs that are so unsatisfyingly short so as to feel half-finished." [22]

Commercial performance

In Australia, The First Time debuted at number three on the ARIA Albums Chart, becoming Laroi's second top-three entry, following F*ck Love. [23] It became his second top-40 album in the United Kingdom, entering the UK Albums Chart at number 29. [24]

Track listing

The First Time track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Sorry"
  • FnZ
  • BoogzDaBeast
  • SkipOnDaBeat
  • Dopamine
  • Parisi
3:12
2."Bleed"
  • Fedi
  • Slatkin
2:49
3."I Thought That I Needed You"
2:51
4."Where Do You Sleep?"
  • C. Howard
  • Mulé
  • De Boni
  • Fedi
  • Slatkin
  • Dylan Cleary-Krell
  • Dylan Teixeira
  • Austin Howard
  • Anthony Hester
  • FnZ
  • Fedi
  • Slatkin
  • Dopamine
  • Dez Wright
  • Nami
  • Auz the Kid
3:12
5."Too Much" (with Jungkook and Central Cee)
3:23
6."Tear Me Apart"
  • C. Howard
  • John Cunningham
Cunningham1:54
7."Strangers (Interlude)"C. Howard 0:25
8."Nights Like This"
 Clams Casino 1:26
9."What's the Move?" (with Future and BabyDrill)
  • C. Howard
  • Nayvadius Wilburn
  • DelQuristo Wilson
  • Mulé
  • De Boni
  • Zito
  • G. Parisi
  • M. Parisi
  • Mickey de Grand IV
  • Gerard Ferrer
  • FnZ
  • Dopamine
  • Parisi
  • De Grand
3:19
10."Strangers Pt. 2 (Interlude)"
  • C. Howard
  • Bieber
 0:43
11."Call Me Instead" (featuring YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Robert Glasper)
  • Uzowuru
  • Fedi
  • Slatkin
  • Bock
3:17
12."Deserve You"
  • C. Howard
  • Sampha Sisay
  • Mulé
  • De Boni
  • Zito
  • Keanu Torres
  • Andrew Franklin
  • FnZ
  • Dopamine
  • Keanu Beats
  • Pro Logic
2:37
13."What Went Wrong???"
  • C. Howard
  • Saint Fort
  • Graham Jonson
  • Bnyx
  • Quickly, Quickly
  • Nicco Catalano [v]
2:37
14."The Line" (with D4vd)
  • Fedi
  • Wiggins
2:32
15."What Just Happened"
2:42
16."You"
2:16
17."Love Again"
2:26
18."Where Does Your Spirit Go?"
3:25
19."You Never Forget Your First Time..."
  • C. Howard
  • A. Howard
  • Walsh
  • TJ Mizell
  • Elisha Herbert
 2:04
20."Kids Are Growing Up"
4:20
Total length:51:30

Notes

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

Charts

Chart performance for The First Time
Chart (2023)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [25] 3
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) [26] 1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [27] 50
Canadian Albums ( Billboard ) [28] 16
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [29] 19
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [30] 41
French Albums (SNEP) [31] 165
Irish Albums (OCC) [32] 33
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [33] 7
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [34] 3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [35] 78
UK Albums (OCC) [36] 29
US Billboard 200 [37] 26

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