The Kid LAROI — BEFORE I FORGET [Album Stream]
The Kid LAROI’s “BEFORE I FORGET” feels like the moment where the “star” part steps back and the person steps forward.
It’s lean (15 tracks, ~44 minutes), emotional without being melodramatic, and paced like a late-night scroll through messages you promised yourself you’d stop rereading.
This album also marks a reset. After shelving an earlier direction, LAROI tightens his focus into something more direct: heartbreak, self-audit, and the stuff you only admit when you’re finally alone with it. The writing is the headline here—vulnerability and clarity, delivered with that melodic ache he’s made his signature, but with sharper edges than before.
The rollout singles set the tone: “A COLD PLAY,” “A PERFECT WORLD,” and “BACK WHEN YOU WERE MINE” read like chapters from the same diary—different moods, same wound. And once the album gets moving, it’s the sequencing that sells it: the early run (“ME + YOU,” “JULY,” “PRIVATE”) sits in that raw, immediate aftermath, then later tracks spiral through second-guessing and acceptance—“NEVER CAME BACK,” “THANK GOD,” “MAYBE I’M WRONG,” “HER INTERLUDE.”
The feature list stays tasteful and sparse: Lithe shows up on “RATHER BE,” Andrew Aged joins on “5:21AM,” and Clara La San adds a moody touch on “THE MOMENT.”
