Oakland’s Ricky Lake is sharing his new single titled “Rift.” Stream the single HERE. “Rift” is the second single from his upcoming album Altered and marks a shift towards his live show featuring a more emo/pop punk sound. ICYMI: check out Ricky Lake’s recent video “The Answer,” which stars adult film star, Jessica Drake.
Out the way
I stay
Where the winds
Fall away
Look around
Is there anything left?
I can’t chill
With these thrills
Put through hundred dollar bills
In my feels
Yeah for all of the rest
Give me time to breathe
Stay afloat
Don’t sink
I threw up once
In the sink
I drank too much
I think
It’s good night
This moonlight
Hurts my eyes
It’s too bright
Fall in love
Like two times
We fly north
For the snow
Where it’s cold
Wish you told me
You in New York
With your parents right now
That’s ok
That’s ok
I love when the sky is gray
I will fall with you
Like every time
Not in my place
I be gone for real
They send shots
At the whiskey hotel
It’s a one night stand
I can already tell
The sky is upon us
The stars have fell
I can’t be religious
When God is for sale
Shawty indigenous
We couldn’t fail
Just give me a sign
If anything’s real
I hope this is real
Out the way
I stay
Where the winds
Fall away
Look around
Is there anything left?
I can’t chill
With these thrills
Put through hundred dollar bills
In my feels yeah for all of the rest
We fly north
For the snow
Where it’s cold
Wish you told me
You in New York
With your parents right now
That’s ok
That’s ok
I love when the sky is gray
I will fall with you
Like every time
About Ricky Lake:
Ricky Lake left his home of Los Angeles at the age of fifteen, moving with his family to Nashville. The son of two doctors, steeped in the usual high school trappings of weed smoke, weird books and hip hop, Ricky (real name Marcus McAlpin) got a wake up call. The pseudo-progressive Southern Nashville landscape showed him the real United States: a land full of contradiction and paradox. For a few years he made it work, and for the first time, he made music. But it wasn’t until he found himself fitting into the artsy enclaves of Oakland, CA that he took on the title that he holds today – the dark but delicate trap craftsman we all know as Ricky Lake.
Collaborating extensively with musicians and artists such as Taifa Nia (OCD, Same Girls) and his found family at San Francisco’s Text Me Records, Ricky dug deep into teenage influences like NERD, Blink 182, Crystal Castles and more; gleaning and selecting his favorite elements of modern pop and Soundcloud rap to develop a sound that’s big and glowing. He’s hedonistic, stylish and sensitive. He doesn’t give a fuck, but he really does. Maybe you’ll find him in a club with gold teeth and a bottle of Patron, a bit misty-eyed because of the last girl who broke his heart. It’s all part and parcel to the young artist who embraces the lavishes of our culture but doesn’t shy away from his sensitive side.