"[4] In 2010, West launched his weekly free music series GOOD Fridays for his fifth studio album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which was released that same year.

[3] "Real Friends" was released as a promotional single on January 8, 2016, launching the return of West's GOOD Fridays series for his then-upcoming album SWISH.

[1] West and American musician Madlib began production on the song in 2010, starting to record it during the sessions for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, then known as Good Ass Job.

[9] As part of a special featurette included on the DVD version of 2014 Stones Throw Records documentary Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, West rapped lyrics that were later used for "No More Parties in LA".

[10] Explaining the contributions to the song's production with a tweet, West confirmed he put together the intro while Madlib crafted the main backdrop.

[9] West's wife Kim Kardashian revealed via Twitter that he had arrived at the studio in Italy and finished recording the track one day prior to its release, admitting her husband wrote 90 of the lines on the plane there.

[13] He also admitted West "waited too long" due to various samples being ultimately used for Madlib and rapper Freddie Gibbs' second collaborative studio album Bandana (2019).

[23] Prior to the song's bridge, he calls out his cousin for stealing his laptop, continuing the subject of his theft that the rapper previously mentioned on "Real Friends".

[19] Kardashian apologized on West's behalf and explained that this was due to him not finishing the song in time because of a Yeezy Season 3 fitting in Italy.

[2][19][28] West's seventh studio album The Life of Pablo was released on February 14, 2016, including "No More Parties in LA" as the seventeenth track.

Matthew Ramirez of Pitchfork directed praise towards West's lyrical content, remarking that his "ability to connect to listeners" makes "the problems and lifestyles of the very, very rich" feel relatable.

[20] NME author Leonie Cooper expressed a similar sentiment, lauding the song for being "doused with an old school soul vibe" and "vintage class", attributing both to Madlib's production while highlighting the sampling of "Stand Up and Shout About Love".

[25] David Drake from Rolling Stone commented that in comparison to West's output from the time period of his sixth studio album Yeezus (2013), the song "suggests a return to the more tasteful and on-brand Kanye" of his 2010 GOOD Friday releases, analyzing it as doing so "with its autobiographical narrative and comfort-food soul sample".

[18] Comparing West and Lamar's verses, he said "Kanye is the more effective and affecting: Kendrick is abstract" while elaborating by opining that Lamar's performance "could as easily be symbolic as personal" but West's verse "meanwhile, is packed with the kind of simultaneous relatable, everyday arrogance and self-effacement that made his earliest work resonate".

[37] In Digital Spy, Lewis Corner stated the song features West and Lamar "spitting lyrical over hard beats and a soulful, hazy backdrop", praising the sampling of "Suzie Thundertussy" in particular.

[15] Writing for Billboard, Mitchell Peters viewed the song as demonstrating West's "effortless rap skills over a smooth beat".

[38] Spin's Kyle McGovern referenced the delayed release by labeling the song "worth the wait", with him branding it as "stunning" and complimenting Lamar's "masterful" verse.

[16] David Edwards from Under the Radar commented that the song "swings and spins around" the "Suzie Thundertussy" sample, describing it as "cracking the lid open on the dark, sordid underbelly of the city".

[22] AllMusic writer David Jeffries viewed the combination of Lamar's vocals, Madlib's production, and the samples of Morrison and Graham as being supportive of "a smooth, rolling soul song they never could've imagined".

[21] At The Guardian, Alexis Petridis noted the "funny, smart" track for being among "wh[er]e there are great lines and verses" on the album.

[39] Reviewing The Life of Pablo for Spin, Greg Tate voiced strongly positive feelings towards West's performance on the song by calling it "the only duet-cut" on which he "displays enough oomph" for another artist not to be needed.

[41] The track was voted in at number 66 on The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll for that year with 8 mentions, being tied for the position with 9 other songs.

[56] The freestyle was recorded as part of a voice message, after Bey was detained at Cape Town International Airport for allegedly trying to leave South Africa with an unofficial "world passport".

[59] West released a sweatshirt inspired by The Life of Pablo in May 2016 that reads "LOS ANGELES" in a triangular pyramid-shaped graphic on the front, while it features "NO MORE PARTIES IN LA" in red script on the back.