Lancey Foux on ‘The Time Of Our Lives’ and legacy: “I’m signing out of everything I’ve built”

D on’t let the sweaty, pearl-blue-lit hedonism of his album cover fool you: when Lancey Foux (born Lance Omal) joins NME ’s Zoom call, the 30-year-old is coming from a morning spent in regimented rigour.

Already, he’s completed a full-body boxer-style workout and spent the rest of his morning sharpening his skills behind the decks, with a Cupra car event later on.

It’s a typically restless schedule for an artist, DJ and budding label head whose career has rarely settled into one lane.

“I get super busy, so I try to go to the gym five or six days a week,” he says.

“I just try to get it in where I can.” Foux wasn’t always a 6am riser.

His cutting, almost samurai-like focus has been tempered through years of learning and relentless work.

Before all that, however, the rap crooner’s cult mixtape run began with the double shot of 2015’s ‘Pink’ and ‘Teen Skum’, alongside breakout track ‘About It’, before gathering momentum with ‘Too Far Alive’, ‘Pink II’ and 2019 cult favourite ‘Friend Or Foux’.

“When I kicked off doing the things I was doing, there wasn’t anyone else doing it how I was,” he asserts, in reference to his style of rap in the mid-2010s rap pantheon.

“I might be new to fans who only discovered me last year, or I might be looked at differently by people who’ve been tapped in for 10 or 15 years now.

I never rest on my success because there’s always more to do.

I’m always going to be making music.” His trailblazing intuition continued into 2026 with the release of his new 21-track album, ‘The Time Of Our Lives’, which is filled with rousing sports car bangers (‘Porsche Poet’) and ATM-emptying anthems (‘Seeing To It’).

Foux describes the record as a “refined version of everything I’ve made” up until this point, distilling years of experimentation into one project. ‘T he Time Of Our Lives’ arrives just six months after ‘First Degree: 2nd Charge’, a sequel to his 2021 mixtape that sidestepped streaming services entirely.

Released exclusively through the direct-to-fan platform [untitled], proceeds from it were donated to charities supporting independent musicians.

Foux’s mixtape and new album feature a medley of newly created material and songs from 2023 (for the former) and 2024.