It includes production from YoungBoy's two in-house engineers, Jason "Cheese" Goldberg and Khris James, alongside Dom Beats, Kenoe, Wayv, Yetty, Fresh Ayr and Yo Benji.
[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Don't Try This at Home was first teased in late 2022 through YoungBoy's AMP show where he was contemplating the titles of his then fifth studio album, I Rest My Case.
"[12] Following the interview with Billboard, on February 16, 2023, YoungBoy appeared on Elliott Wilson and Brian "B.Dot" Miller's highly acclaimed hip-hop podacst, Rap Radar in which he noted that he would return to his original self on Don't Try This at Home following the controversial remarks regarding I Rest My Case: "Oh, I'ma talk crazy on there.
However, the tracklist was available early on both Spotify and Amazon Music, increasing the hype behind the project due to the appearances of several snippets such as "Big Truck", "By Myself", "Spin & Ben'n", "War", "Grave Digga", "Off the Lean", and one of YoungBoy's most requested and highly anticipated snippets that his manager Alex Junnier noted "will never drop", the album's twenty-ninth cut, "Cemetery Lifestyle".
[40] Both covers also share the same conceptual similarity to that of the alternate album artwork of Eminem's Recovery (2010), showing him sitting in a transparent living room in the shape of a rectangular cube, with the Renaissance Center in the background in the rapper's hometown of Detroit, Michigan.
[41][citation needed] In March 2023, YoungBoy alluded to his return to Baton Rouge after being on house arrest in Salt Lake City, Utah, since 2021.
Concluding his review, Murray noted that Don't Try This at Home is "a scattergun approach that feels unable to reign itself" and that it is "both servant to and a victim of YoungBoy Never Broke Again's largesse".
[46] Prelude Press's Dom Vigil stated that Don't Try This at Home "finds [YoungBoy] firing on all cylinders, masterfully wielding his off-kilter signature flow, dipping in and out of incisive verses and infectious melodies.
"[47] Don't Try This at Home debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 60,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, including 1,000 pure album sales.