“I got that feel-good energy,” declares Baltimore fixture Rye Rye on Feels Like the First Time, a new bubblegum-rap jolt that pairs her with Los Angeles producers Ash Nerve and So Drove. Nearly twenty years removed from the viral tremor of “Shake It to the Ground,” Rye Rye still carries the Baltimore club blueprint in her delivery, that clipped cadence that can make almost any beat feel built for motion.

Over a hyperpop-tinted track, her voice cuts through with the same kinetic snap that defined her early records, anchoring the song in the physical urgency of Baltimore club. The production is equal parts Ash Nerve’s maximalist pop experimentation and So Drove’s ongoing project of bridging regional club and rap scenes.

Rather than nostalgia, the track leans toward a future-forward collision point, where club music’s physicality meets a kind of high-gloss pop eccentricity. Feels Like the First Time plays like a reminder that Rye Rye never really left the conversation, and that the collaboration is steering its own corner of pop toward stranger, more fluorescent territory. In the end, it’s simply a fun one to play loud and move with.