JACQUES: Juice WRLD’s sophomore album 'Death Race For Love' is a hit and is slated to debut
atop the Billboard 200 in March 2019.
JACQUES: Fans love the presence and "in the moment" feel of Juice’s music.
JUICE: I always freestyle songwrite it all, always.
Always.
And you just hit record, let’s go. JUICE: Yeah.
JACQUES: Juice bares his soul across 22 tracks
where he raps about love, heartbreak and what he uses to cope.
JUICE: My music is like my therapy sessions but there is no confidentiality.
JACQUES: 'Death Race For Love' includes lyrics about a deep passion for his partner - something
we see on “She’s The One” and “Desire.”
JACQUES: But these strong feelings puts his lyrics into questionable territory - threatening
violence if his partner leaves him like on “Flaws and Sins” and “Make Believe.”
JACQUES: Genius pointed out in late 2018 how these lyrics are reminiscent of one of Juice’s
favorite artists, Detroit’s Eminem, whose songs “Guilty Conscience” and “Kim”
veered into similar territory with terrible results after he performed the latter with
his ex-wife, Kim Mathers, in the crowd.
KIM: I got into a car accident on the way home I was so upset.
And um, I made it home and I just, I couldn’t not gather my senses, I just, and I went
upstairs in my bathroom and I slit my wrists.
JACQUES: Juice’s “Make Believe” also
draws on inspiration from Eminem’s “Stan.”
JACQUES: The album also contains lyrics where heartbreak pushes Juice to drugs.
JACQUES: Juice’s relationship with lean, popularly consumed out of styrofoam cups,
came out of his love for the Atlanta rapper Future, whom Juice collaborated with on October
2018’s WRLD on Drugs.
JACQUES: In an interview, Future reflected on how this realization affected him saying quote:
JACQUES: On “HeMotions” Juice raps about
how he escapes love’s anguish in illicit substances, like pills.
JACQUES: Juice believes that the honesty about his pain is one of the things that sets him
apart as an artist.
JUICE: Everybody goes through it, everybody not man enough to talk about it.
JACQUES: His raw emotion is also an example of Juice channeling the influence of mid-aughts
emo bands like Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco and Senses Fail, which he first gained
interest in accidentally during his efforts to woo a fifth grade crush.
JUICE: She said something about like a group of music she listened to.
I went home and literally listened to all they shit just so I could have something to
talk to her about the next day and I ended up liking it
JACQUES: And this is clear on “Robbery” where he references Escape the Fate.
JACQUES: The duality of a gift and a curse is how Juice comes to grips with his drug mentions,
he hopes to show both sides while revealing that he’s anything but perfect.
JUICE: I try not to make it completely a positive, like, connotation about it?
Because realistically doing drugs you’ll die.
JACQUES: All in all, Juice has had a crazy year and will probably continue to wear his
emotions on his sleeve, no matter where they takes him, as exemplified in “Fast.”
JUICE: Trying to understand the concept of perfection will probably drive us all insane.
JACQUES: I’m Jacques Morel with Genius News, bringing you the meaning and the knowledge
behind the music.
Peace!