Coastin': The Calm Ryft Couldn't Keep

For listeners just discovering Lil Ryft, Coastin’ is the moment that shows what he was chasing before everything caught up to him.

Where Starlight felt like an SOS, Coastin’ feels like the rare breath in between—late-night car windows down, the whole world asleep, and an artist finally getting a break from being himself. Knowing he died young, the song hits like a postcard from the peace he never got to keep: no pressure, no camera, no brand to maintain.

Just the hum of streetlights and the illusion of escape.

“Low tide, I’m coastin’… I feel best when I feel the least emotion” is the kind of line people tattoo when they don’t have answers yet. It’s not numbness as a goal—it’s numbness as survival. A soft refusal to drown.

If you’ve never heard Lil Ryft before, Coastin’ is a perfect introduction: understated, atmospheric, and painfully human. No theatrics. No false bravado. Just a young artist trying to find one quiet night where the world didn’t need anything from him. It’s quiet, it’s unbothered, and it’s Ryft—before the world got too loud to hear him.