Juice Wrld passed away from an accidental drug overdose roughly seven months ago, but his family, friends and fans are keeping his legacy alive. On Monday (July 6), an Instagram post was uploaded to his official account, revealing a release date for his first posthumous album Legends Never Die.
According to the caption, the project is expected to arrive on Friday (July 10).
The caption included the 21-year-old rapper spitting a freestyle for the camera that alluded to his struggle with substance abuse: “You gotta admit yourself/You need some help/I gotta admit myself/I’m on these drugs/I feel like I can’t save myself.”
The line echoes Juice’s sentiments in his first posthumous single “Righteous,” which was released in late April.
“Five or six pills in my right hand, yeah,” he raps. “Codeine runneth over on my nightstand/Takin’ medicine to fix all of the damage/My anxiety the size of a planet (Yeah, ooh)/Holes in my skull, over time/My heart’s over ice.”
Juice Wrld’s ‘Righteous’ Lyrics Reflect His Drug Overdose Death
But there had been other signs in addition to his lyrics. Following the Chicago native’s December 2019 death, his mother Carmella Wallace issued an emotional statement about her son and the demons he faced.
We loved Jarad with all of our hearts and cannot believe our time with him has been cut short,” Wallace said. “As he often addressed in his music and to his fans, Jarad battled with prescription drug dependency. Addiction knows no boundaries and its impact goes way beyond the person fighting it.
“Jarad was a son, brother, grandson, friend and so much more to so many people who wanted more than anything to see him defeat addiction. We hope the conversations he started in his music and his legacy will help others win their battles as that is what he wanted more than anything. We know that Jarad’s legacy of love, joy and emotional honesty will live on.”
Following the release date tweet, Juice’s team followed up with the project’s first single “Life’s A Mess” featuring pop singer Halsey. The family added in a follow-up tweet, “This Friday we will be honoring the life and art of Juice WRLD by releasing his album, ‘Legends Never Die’. We feel that this collection of 15 songs best represents the music Juice was in the process of creating. The album shines a light on the collaborators that meant so much to Juice and deeply impacted his musical process.”
Juice’s promising career was just getting started when his life was cut tragically short. His last album before his untimely passing, 2019’s Death Race For Love, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling roughly 165,000 total album equivalent units in its first week.
Can’t wait
Not trying to be a dick, but… dude is NOT a legend, and yes… he is dead.
he is indeed a legend. Sad the snitch from the airport led to his death but he is a legend.
LOL. A legend? He isn’t on ANYONE’S top 20. LOL. Ask anyone on this site to name 5 tracks of his. Now in the case of Big, Pac, Rakim, BDK, DOOM, Kendrick, Nas, Jay… most hip-hop heads could easily. What led to his death was him claiming all of that “king of New York” shit and being an East Coast Cosplay blood pressure crip. Whichever make believe ass gang he was from. LA niggas don’t play like that. You say you’re a blood or crip, don’t come to LA without paying cats for protection. Someone at the airport snitched? Did they somehow know where he was staying? IMO he hit on some Instagram ho or recorded with some dudes that set him up. That’s usually how it happens.
He is the best freestyler on earth and can sing his ass off with or without autotune, prove me wrong with you freestyling better than him, prove me wrong by singing better than him, prove me wrong by giving a better message to the youth, prove me wrong and be the better person and stop hating on a young individual who actually did something with his life instead of hating online behind a screen. This message goes out to everyone that calls out juice for not being a legend. You don’t have to like him but, that doesn’t give you the right to disrespect the dude either.
And for another, he was not a part of any gang and never promoted drugs nor violence. He was a real nice and genuine dude who cared for everyone. He struggled with drugs and said that in his music, never did he glorify drugs. He always said they were bad and tried to quit. Sadly the they took his life and such a young age. People love him because he speaks the truth and is relatable on many levels.
rick Ross will be the executive producer. They always talked about collaborating. This will sell more than 50’s pop smoke album
I don’t cares fuck him
Such a legend…like all these other doped up commercial fuckin clones quit with this legend shit raps in the phase rock was in back in the 70’s 80’s more trash bands than you could even throw a stone at yet how many of them you hear about today? Thats tonna be juiceworld and all these fuckin clowns like him shitty he died but honestly he chose his fate want a life of drugs dope and bullshit well pay the cost
JuiceWRLD and all these bitches singing falsely with autotune just watering down and poisoning hiphop culture. They have never been the part of this musical scene just like fuckhead rnb singers. How can anybody mix up hiphop with caterwauling and not mixing up Venga Boys with Krafwerk? If you think KRS and Trippie Redd are the same cathegory or 8Ball and Travis Scott represent the same genre you say Evanescence and Burzum are equal because there’s a guitar in both music.