At 18, Lil Tecca has had more success than rappers twice his age, but that hasn’t jaded his desire to keep pumping out hits. With We Love You Tecca 2 approaching, the Queens rapper is prepared for ...

Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Winter 2023 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now. A lot has changed since Lil Tecca burst onto the rap scene with his breakout hit “Ransom” in 2019.

“Dark Thoughts,” the opening track from Lil Tecca‘s new album Dopamine, came together in a flash. The 22-year-old rapper says he made the song at nine in the morning, “straight off the wake up as a ...