- Words Notion Staff
2AM Ricky’s new single ‘TDLR’ is a bass-heavy summer ritual, channeling Freaknik nostalgia into pure dance floor euphoria.
2AM Ricky is making moments with his music, and on the genre-bending ‘TDLR’, the cultural disruptor throws us into the middle of an Atlanta-style cookout, with no curfew and no rules. Dripping in sweaty basslines and bouncing grooves, the ClayCo Beats-produced track is an electrified ode to Freaknik-era Atlanta, where chaos met joy and movement became memory.
Sonically, ‘TDLR’ lives at the intersection of house, bounce, and hip-hop, refusing to sit still or stay in one lane. Deep 808s rumble like passing lowriders, while jittery percussion and synth jabs carve out a rhythm that commands the body before the brain can catch up.
“I wanted it to feel like a party I wasn’t supposed to be at, but found my way into,” Ricky shares. That spirit of stolen joy, back-porch basslines and hedonistic liberation echoes in every beat.
Fresh off a historic year, where Ricky made history as the first Black trans man to chart on iTunes, his return is both a celebration and a declaration. With ‘TDLR’ heating up dance floors and his debut album Don’t Forget to Call on the horizon, he’s creating a wave you’ll want to be apart of.