Coi (album)

In an interview with Eddie Francis of Apple Music 1 before she announced the album, Leray spoke about her intention with it:

I feel like a lot of the headlines kind of overshadow my true talent and what God really brought me here to do. So I just can't wait because this album's going to show that. … And also the second album's going to make people go back to Trendsetter and make them actually appreciate it for the music instead of the bullshit and the negative headlines and Coi Leray always being the topic. This album is all about me.{{cite web|url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/coi-leray-coi-second-album/|title=Coi Leray Keeps Growing With Upcoming Second Album 'Coi'|work=uDiscoverMusic|last=Daly|first=Rhian|date=May 19, 2023|access-date=June 19, 2023}}

Leray announced the title of the album and revealed its cover art on May 19, 2023.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/coi-leray-coi-new-album-release-date-1235332702/|title=Coi Leray Announces Sophomore Album 'Coi' & Teases New Song 'Make My Day'|magazine=Billboard|last=Lamarre|first=Carl|date=May 19, 2023|access-date=June 19, 2023}} She revealed the tracklist three days later.{{cite web|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/680313-coi-leray-sophomore-album-tracklist-features-social-media-reacts|title=Coi Leray Reveals Sophomore Album Tracklist, Features Leave Fans Confused|website=HotNewHipHop|last=Lamarre|first=Carl|date=May 22, 2023|access-date=June 19, 2023}}

The lead single of the album, "Players", was released on November 30, 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/606580-coi-leray-shares-grandmaster-flash-sampled-players-single|title=Coi Leray Shares Grandmaster Flash-Sampled "Players" Single|website=HotNewHipHop|last=Ojii|first=Jada|date=November 30, 2022|access-date=June 19, 2023}} The second and third singles, "Bops" and "My Body", were released on April 27 and 28, 2023, respectively.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.complex.com/music/coi-leray-my-body-bops-stream|title=Coi Leray Shares "My Body" and "Bops" Tracks Ahead of New Album|magazine=Complex|last=Cowen|first=Trace William|date=April 28, 2023|access-date=June 19, 2023}} The fourth single, "Run It Up", was released on June 16, 2023.{{cite news|url=https://uproxx.com/music/coi-leray-run-it-up/|title=Coi Leray Challenges Men To 'Run It Up' On Her Steamy New Single|website=Uproxx|last=Gonzalez|first=Alex|date=June 16, 2023|access-date=June 25, 2023}} And the fifth and final single, "Make My Day" with David Guetta, was released on the same day as the album release.

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite web |last1=Yeung |first1=Neil Z. |title=COI Album Reviews, Songs & More |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/coi-mw0004009007 |website=AllMusic |access-date=23 June 2023}}

| rev2 = Pitchfork

| rev2score = 4.5/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/coi-leray-coi/|title=Coi Leray: Coi Album Review|website=Pitchfork|last=Haile|first=Heven|date=June 27, 2023|access-date=June 27, 2023}}

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Coi was met with lukewarm reviews from music critics. Heven Haile of Pitchfork felt that Coi "might as well be marketed as a covers album. Roughly 75% of the album relies on painfully obvious samples, copied and pasted in with little modification" and Leray "unimaginatively spins songs by men into #girlboss anthems". Haile also felt wrote that when Leray is "not deploying samples of popular songs, she's hopping on the wave of today's popular sounds" and concluded that "the only idea she brings to Coi" is introducing "the younger generation" to artists she samples.

{{Track listing

| headline = Coi track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Bitch Girl

| writer1 = {{hlist|Coi Leray|Johnny Goldstein|A1 LaFlare|Akil King|Daryl Hall|John Oates}}

| extra1 = Goldstein

| length1 = 1:43

| title2 = Bops

| writer2 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Feli Ferraro|Germán Valdes|King}}

| extra2 = Goldstein

| length2 = 2:08

| title3 = Make My Day

| note3 = with David Guetta

| writer3 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|David Guetta|King|Manuela Kamosi|Thomas de Quincey}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|Goldstein|Guetta}}

| length3 = 2:15

| title4 = Players

| writer4 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|King|Edward Fletcher|Sylvia Robinson|Clifton Chase|Melvin Glover}}

| extra4 = Goldstein

| length4 = 2:18

| title5 = My Body

| writer5 = {{hlist|John Gluck, Jr.|Herbert Weiner|Wally Gold|Seymour Gottlieb|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|King}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Goldstein|Leray|Ferraro|King}}

| length5 = 2:00

| title6 = Get Loud

| writer6 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|Nick Lee|Tom Levesque|King|DJ Miles|Aton Ben-Horin}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|Goldstein|Lee{{ref|a|[a]}}|Levesque{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| length6 = 1:50

| title7 = Phuck It

| writer7 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|King|Miles|Thomas Bangalter|Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo}}

| extra7 = Goldstein

| length7 = 1:58

| title8 = Spend It

| note8 = featuring Saucy Santana

| writer8 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|King|Alexander Prado|Leonard Lowman|Rashad Spain}}

| extra8 = Goldstein

| length8 = 2:11

| title9 = Don't Chat Me Up

| note9 = featuring Giggs

| writer9 = {{hlist|Leray|Tommy Brown|Taylor Hill|Prado|Lowman|Alexis Boyd}}

| extra9 = {{hlist|Brown|Hill}}

| length9 = 2:41

| title10 = On My Way

| writer10 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|King|Lowman|Prado}}

| extra10 = Goldstein

| length10 = 1:59

| title11 = Run It Up

| writer11 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|A1 LaFlare|King}}

| extra11 = Goldstein

| length11 = 2:47

| title12 = No Angels

| note12 = featuring Lola Brooke

| writer12 = {{hlist|Leray|London Holmes|Shyniece Thomas|Samuel Coleman|Kevin Gomringer|Tim Gomringer|Darrell Perkins|Luis Bacqué}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|London on da Track|Cubeatz|Dinero|Bacqué{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| length12 = 2:30

| title13 = Man's World

| note13 = with James Brown

| writer13 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|Guetta|King|James Brown|Betty Jean Newsome}}

| extra13 = {{hlist|Goldstein|Guetta}}

| length13 = 3:15

| title14 = Black Rose

| writer14 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|Guetta|King|Pierre-Luc Rioux|Atia Boggs}}

| extra14 = {{hlist|Goldstein|Guetta}}

| length14 = 2:15

| title15 = Radioactive

| note15 = featuring Skillibeng

| writer15 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|Ferraro|King|Emwah Warmington|Everton Bonner|Sly Dunbar|John Taylor|Lloyd Willis}}

| extra15 = Goldstein

| length15 = 3:21

| title16 = Come and Go

| writer16 = {{hlist|Leray|Goldstein|King|Ferraro}}

| extra16 = Goldstein

| length16 = 2:44

| total_length = 37:55

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• {{sup|{{note|a|[a]}}}} indicates a co-producer

• "Bitch Girl" contains a sample of "Rich Girl", performed by Daryl Hall & John Oates.
• "Make My Day" contains a sample of "Pump Up the Jam", performed by Technotronic.
• "Players" contains samples of "The Message", performed by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
• "My Body" contains a sample of "It's My Party", performed by Lesley Gore.
• "Phuck It" contains samples from "Technologic", performed by Daft Punk.
• "Man's World" contains a sample of "It's a Man's Man's Man's World", written by James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome.
• "Radioactive" contains a sample of "Murder She Wrote", performed by Chaka Demus & Pliers.

Musicians

• Coi Leray – vocals
• Johnny Goldstein – bass guitar, drums, keyboards, programming (tracks 1, 5)
• Tomer Biran – bass guitar, horn, saxophone (track 5)
• Shay Meiri – saxophone (track 5)
• Asaf Bitton – trombone (track 5)
• Arthur Krasnobaev – trumpet (track 5)
• Nick Lee – trombone (track 6)
• Tom Levesque – trumpet (track 6)
• Saucy Santana – vocals (track 8)
• Tommy Brown – additional vocals (track 9)
• Taylor Hill – additional vocals (track 9)
• Lola Brooke – vocals (track 12)
• James Brown – vocals (track 13)
• Pierre-Luc Rioux – guitar (track 14)
• Skillibeng – vocals (track 15)

Technical

• Joe LaPorta – mastering
• Patrizio "Teezio" Pigliapoco – mixing (tracks 1–12, 14, 16)
• Manny Marroquin – mixing (tracks 13, 15)
• Joe Grasso – immersive mixing
• Germán "Ayoroc" Valdes – recording (tracks 1–6, 8, 10, 11, 13–16), vocal editing (12)
• Johnny Goldstein – recording (tracks 5–8)
• Kahlil Vellani – recording (track 9)
• Taylor Hill – recording (track 9)
• Nick Bane – recording (track 12)
• Aresh Banaji – mixing assistance (tracks 1–12, 14, 16)
• Zach Pereya – mixing assistance (tracks 13, 15)
• Anthony Vilchis – mixing assistance (tracks 13, 15)
• Trey Station – mixing assistance (tracks 13, 15)
• Brandon Peralta – immersive mixing assistance
• Augusto Sanchez – immersive mixing assistance
• Ayanna Depas – immersive mixing assistance
• Giovanni "Blu" Rottier – immersive mixing assistance

Visuals

• Charlotte Rutherford – creative direction, photography
• Drew Gleason – creative direction
• Coi Leray – creative direction

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