Lil Tecca Releases New Single "Dark Thoughts"

The track is the rapper's 13th Billboard Hot 100 hit

Multiplatinum sensation Lil Tecca uncovers the slick and cinematic music video for his rapidly rising smash single “Dark Thoughts” out now via Galactic Records/Republic Records. Watch the official music video below.

Once again, he embodies pure star power on-screen. Flanked by a dancer, he raps from a leather couch, spitting the track’s wavy bars with a palpable sense of feel and handling the hook with precision and poise. The visual mirrors the song’s ebb-and-flow, and it showcases Lil Tecca’s confidence and charisma.

“Dark Thoughts” has exploded as a phenomenon in its own right. The track vaulted to #2 on the Spotify US Top Songs Chart. Plus, it marked his Top 50 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 and 13th entry overall on the respective chart. Thus far, it has reeled in north of 40 million global streams and counting.

It may be dropping at the start of spring, but “Dark Thoughts” has all the ingredients of a summer banger. Tecca exhibits impeccable beat selection once more, serving up melodic rhymes over bouncy production punctuated by nineties R&B panache, twinkling piano, and bright loops. Flaunting his signature magnetic wordplay, he leans into this groove with charismatic, yet introspective bars.

It continues his flawless run since the arrival of PLAN A in 2024. Not only did the latter notch his fourth Top 10 entry on the Billboard 200, but it took flight as his highest-charting debut since the now-classic We Love You Tecca in 2019. He lit up DSPs with the likes of “BAD TIME,”“TASTE,” and “NUMBER 2,” which clocked millions of streams.

PLAN A followed 2023’s TEC. The album became his fourth consecutive Top 15 debut on the Billboard 200 and has garnered over 1.7 billion streams worldwide. His rise has only continued though. As a teen, he uncompromisingly pursued his dream and wound up with 11 billion streams, sales of 8 million albums, and a bevy of multiplatinum singles.

For Lil Tecca, music was always an all-or-nothing proposition. Five years since his 2019 breakout, he still raps like it. The New York-born phenomenon has consistently leveled up with an uncompromisingly original style of his own anchored by clever wordplay, airtight bars, and an intoxicating melodic fluidity. This approach has quietly entrenched him at the forefront of 21stcentury hip-hop with the numbers to back up his status. Generating north of 10 billion streams and counting, his catalog boasts the 7x-platinum “Ransom,” 2x-platinum “Love Me,” and 2x-platinum “Did It Again,” among many others. He bowed in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 with the platinum-certified We Love You Tecca [2019], Virgo World [2020], and We Love You Tecca 2 in addition to going Top 15 with TEC [2023]. The latter saw him firing on all cylinders fueled by fan favorites such as “HVN ON EARTH” [with Kodak Black] and the platinum-certified “500lbs.” GQ raved, “Tecca has retained the playful urgency, slippery flow, and versatile melodies that made ‘Ransom’ undeniable.”

He headlined sold out international tours and earned acclaim from New York Times and Complex, to name a few. Simultaneously, he emerged as a versatile powerhouse equally comfortable on a track with either Lil Uzi Vert and Lil Durk or The Kid LAROI and the late Juice WRLD. In 2024, he leveled up again with PLAN A [Galactic/Republic Records]. Upon arrival, it crashed the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 as his fourth entry on the respective chart and highest bow since 2019. Not to mention, it bested the first-week tally of its predecessor, capturing #2 on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart and Top Rap Albums Chart. Plus, it incited the applause of Associated Press, HYPEBEAST, and more. Tecca kickstarts his next phase in 2025 with “Dark Thoughts” and more to come.