Lyfestyle

Lyfestyle is the fifth studio album by the American rapper Yeat, released through Lyfestyle Corporation, Field Trip Recordings and Capitol Records, on October 18, 2024. The album features guest appearances from Don Toliver, Kodak Black, Lil Durk, and Summrs, while the production was handled by Empathy, Primo, Synthetic, and Yeat himself, with support from Oscar4400XY, Quincy Sxbra, Sharkboy, and several other producers. The album serves as a follow-up to his previous studio album, 2093 (2024).

Lyfestyle
Studio album by Yeat
Released	October 18, 2024
Genre	Trap, rage
Length	62:42
Label	Lyfestyle Field Trip Capitol
Producer	730hahah Amorii Brody500 Chef9thegod Cloud Darkoivx Dreamawake Empathy Flowrency JDolla LRBG OMGZanoza Oscar4400XY Primo Quincy Sxbra Radiate Rafeprod Robin Sapjer Sharkboy Shazy Ski Pass Streo Synthetic TC Thankyouwill Upmadeit Venny xbrvdy Yateski Yeat
Yeat chronology
2093 (2024) Lyfestyle (2024) A Dangerous Lyfe (TBA)

Background and recording

Upon the release of the album, Yeat appeared in an interview with The Fader, during which he revealed he had 4,800 beats shortlisted for the album. Yeat's manager, Zack Bia stated that Yeat would wake up at "7 in the morning my time, 4 in the morning on the West Coast" to FaceTime him and record tracks on his bedside. Yeat admitted that "this time it [took] longer than it normally ever has" to decide upon the album's final tracklist and that the album is "a little bit more curated" than his previous bodies of work. In the interview, Yeat expressed that "Lyfestyle [is] basically just my normal rap shit", and that "it’s not futuristic, it’s not like a whole different world" while noting that it's more "polished" than his previous records. Bia added that "Noah's [Yeat’s] music-making process is so insulated because he makes music only by himself" and that "there's no outside noise when he's actually making music. Even when I'm with him, he'll be like, ‘Okay, I'm gonna go make music now, you guys can leave".

During the interview, the album's executive producer Synthetic revealed that Yeat asked him to produce the entirety of the album:

When it comes to creating something new with an artist and you're really trying to push to that next level, it's complicated, because you don't want to push too hard. [...] 2093 was very experimental, right? [And] the feedback on that was very mixed. When we were trying to craft this album, we wanted to make sure that we were delivering what the fans wanted but also creating something that the fans hadn't heard yet but felt familiar.

Release and promotion

Following the release of 2093 in February of the same year, Yeat would begin to tease "a year['s] worth of music". On September 17, 2024, Yeat's label, Lyfestyle Corporation shared a video of "Lyfestyle" being spray painted in graffiti style on a Lamborghini Huracán, parked on Rodeo Drive. Two days later, on September 19, he released the SoundCloud-exclusive single "TurnMeUp", the song's cover art being the spray-painted Lamborghini Huracán. On October 9, Yeat released the official trailer for Lyfestyle. On October 14, Yeat shared the album's cover art, soon followed by the release of the album's official tracklist on October 17.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	60/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	7/10
Rolling Stone
Slant
Pitchfork	5.6/10

Lyfestyle received generally favorable reviews from music critics. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 60, based on four reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Writing for Clash, Robin Murray wrote that "Yeat manages to conjure a form of explicit subtlety", however, "there’s so much to absorb" and at times, the album can become "overwhelming". Concluding his review, Murray wrote that "continuing his game of tension and release, revelation and disguise, Lyfestyle reinforces Yeat's singular status". Rolling Stone's Mosi Reeves wrote that the album "details distorted in a cacophony of electronic noise" and that "it’s an album that invites fast-forwarding to one’s favorite cuts, not deep and focused listening". Paul Attard for Slant stated that the album "is Yeat’s giddiest release to date" and that "each song ably [builds] off the momentum of the one before it", allowing the album to "feels like one constantly mutating track". Attard noted that the album "might be too cohesive, despite periodic genre switch-ups", before concluding that "the quality and sleekness of Lyfestyle should mark the definitive end of any doubts about Yeat’s musicianship".

Commercial performance

In the United States, Lyfestyle debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, earning 89,000 album-equivalent units (including 60,000 in pure sales) in its first week. Thus causing Lyfestyle to become Yeat's first number one album on the chart, alongside his fifth consecutive top ten. The album accumulated a total of 39.67 million on-demand streams of its songs. In its second week, Lyfestyle set the record as the seventh largest drop from number one in Billboard 200 history, as the album descended 69 spots to number 70 in its second week.

Contributing factors for Lyfestyle’s pure album sales count to relatively high could be because Lyfestyle is Yeat’s first album to be released on CD, as well as on his official website different box sets that include merchandise such as T-shirts, balaclavas, and hoodies were released. Signed Insert CD’s of Lyfestyle were also selling on Discogs when the album was first released, retailing for 11.44$ (USD).

Track listing

Lyfestyle track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Geek Time"	Noah Smith Javier Mercado Primo Pepper Wyndham Srenaski Brady Tremblay	Primo Synthetic xbrvdy Yateski	2:50
2.	"STFU"	Smith Alexey Grachev Fedor Kulachkov Mercado Daniel Mohammadi Tommy Wright III	Sharkboy Ski Pass Synthetic Upmadeit	1:44
3.	"They Tell Me"	Smith Juan Alvarado Mercado Rafe Nelson Pepper	Empathy Primo Synthetic Yeat Rafeprod	2:53
4.	"Heard of Me"	Smith Alvarado Steven Giron Mercado Nelson Pepper	Empathy Primo Synthetic Venny Rafeprod	2:33
5.	"Speedball"	Smith Alvarado Mercado Giron Nelson	Empathy Synthetic Venny Rafeprod	2:17
6.	"U Don't Know Lyfe"	Smith Giron Mercado Ilya Shishkin Srenaski	Shazy Synthetic Venny Yateski	3:13
7.	"Orchestrate"	Smith Keian Bohn Mercado Pepper	Primo Streo Synthetic Yeat	2:53
8.	"Be Quiet" (featuring Kodak Black)	Smith Gonçalo Brás Devokeyous Hamilton Bill Kapri Pablo Sanchez Aaron Tanarasoo	Chef9thegod Cloud Dreamawake	2:54
9.	"The Costes"	Smith Giron Mercado Pepper Matvei Shalnev	OMGZanoza Primo Synthetic Venny Yeat	2:33
10.	"Go2Work" (featuring Summrs)	Smith Thomas Cooper Robin Deibert-Patterson Giron Deante Johnson Mercado	Robin Synthetic TC Venny	3:23
11.	"Gone 4 a Min"	Smith Jasper Levering	Sapjer	2:15
12.	"Forever Again"	Smith Quincy Essibrah Levering	Sapjer Quincy Sxbra	3:19
13.	"On 1"	Smith Grachev Mercado Pepper Tremblay	Primo Sharkboy Synthetic xbrvdy	3:04
14.	"Flytroop"	Smith Grachev Mercado Shalnev Tremblay	OMGZanoza Sharkboy Synthetic xbrvdy	2:46
15.	"Eliminate"	Smith Alvarado Mercado Spencer Mott Nelson	Empathy Radiate Synthetic Yeat Rafeprod	2:59
16.	"Lying 5 Fun"	Smith William Lambert Mercado Nelson	Synthetic Thankyouwill Rafeprod	3:54
17.	"New High" (featuring Don Toliver)	Smith Bohn Mercado Pepper Caleb Toliver	Primo Streo Synthetic	2:41
18.	"So What"	Smith Alvarado Giron Mercado Nelson	Empathy Synthetic Venny Yeat Rafeprod	2:24
19.	"Lyfestyle" (featuring Lil Durk)	Smith Durk Banks Jai'el Blackmon Oscar Fatyga Sanchez	Dreamawake JDolla Yeat Oscar4400XY	2:54
20.	"God Talkin Shhh"	Smith Mercado Pepper Srenaski Artem Zherdev	Flowrency Primo Synthetic Yeat Yateski	3:15
21.	"Lyfe Party"	Smith Alvarado Giron Mercado Nelson	Empathy Rafeprod Synthetic Venny Yeat	2:40
22.	"Fate" (Bonus)	Smith Mercado Darko Ivančević Luke O'Donovan Gabriel St-Onge Nikita Zvorygin	730hahah Amorii Darkoivx LRBG	3:18
Total length:				62:42

Digital deluxe

No.	Title	Length
23.	"Project Lyfestyle"	2:36
24.	"For Lyfe"	2:22
25.	"Night Come"	2:20
26.	"5Brazy Remix" (featuring Quavo)	2:58

Dune edition

No.	Title	Length
22.	"Style Lyfe"	3:13
23.	"Back Then"	3:08

Drone edition

No.	Title	Length
22.	"5Brazy"	2:41
23.	"Barbarian"	2:54

Horse edition

No.	Title	Length
22.	"Graveyard"	2:20
23.	"Gone"	2:03

Notes

• Track titles are stylized in all caps. If a track title has more than two of the letter E, the latter E is stylized with an umlaut (ë); this does not apply to "Speedball", "Be Quiet", "Forever Again", "Lyfestyle", "Lyfe Party", "New High" or "U Don't Know Lyfe".
• "Be Quiet" contains background vocals from Lazer Dim 700.

Personnel

• Yeat – vocals, mixing
• Anthony Kilhoffer – mastering

Charts

Chart performance for Lyfestyle

Chart (2024)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)	46
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)	9
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)	21
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)	55
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)	131
Canadian Albums (Billboard)	13
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)	47
French Albums (SNEP)	107
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)	59
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)	16
Irish Albums (IRMA)	66
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)	29
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)	24
Polish Albums (ZPAV)	44
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)	8
UK Albums (OCC)	52
UK R&B Albums (OCC)	14
US Billboard 200	1
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)	1