Juice Wrld’s first posthumous single, “Righteous,” was released on Friday (April 24) at midnight EST. But eerily, the lyrics to the song paint a painful portrait of a young man struggling with drug addiction, which ultimately took his life.
As the chorus goes, “Five or six pills in my right hand, yeah. 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 (Woah).”
In the first verse, Juice raps about being high and describes how dark it’s making him feel, indicating there’s a lot going on beneath the surface.
“Over ice, I’m freezing,” he begins. “Beautiful eyes, deceiving/We may die this evening/Coughing, wheezing, bleeding/High, I’m an anxious soul/Blood moons are my eyes, stay low/Red and black, they glow/Under attack, in my soul/When it’s my time, I’ll know/Never seen a hell so cold/Yeah, we’ll make it out, I’ll know/We’ll run right through the flames, let’s go.”
The second verse is even more ominous as Juice appears to be throwing out the S.O.S. signal.
“I’m in too deep,” he raps. “Can’t swim like me/We’re drowning, so I will see/My demons ten feet, under me/Inhale, exhale, but I can’t breathe/Too busy drinking codeine doin’ high speeds/Crash, pour a four, sip it slow, make the time pass/Take a pill for the thrill, have a relapse/Devil in my head tryna run gym laps/I ain’t tryna race, he don’t even know me like that.”
As Juice’s mother Carmella Wallace noted while announcing the Live Free 999 Fund, Juice knew he was in trouble.
“I was aware of his struggles with addiction, anxiety, and depression; we had many conversations about his challenges with these issues,” she said in a press release. “I know he truly wanted to be free from the demons that tormented him. I made the decision upon his death that I was going to share his struggles with the world with the objective of helping others.”
Juice Wrld’s Cause Of Death Revealed
Juice Wrld died last December after suffering a drug-induced seizure at Chicago Midway International Airport. His official cause of death was ruled an accidental overdose from oxycodone and codeine. He was 21.
Sad. Demons got the best of him. Lots of potential with this young man. RIP
Yes. I’m a old school cat and I will say this guy was talented. R.I.P. Gone To Soon ?
Simply say no to drugs. He probably didn’t think his life would end that way. Think it all the way through.
I wasn’t at all a fan of his but its sad to see young people perish.
Good track. Dude had demons and was willing to put them out there. Not just talking about balling and glorifying it like 6ix9ine and these other goons.
21 way too young. r.i.p. ………………………………………………………….
Lets all feel bad for the drug addict that glorified drugs ya sell your soul for some fame and money and get sad when the devil comes to collect well what about all the young kids that took drugs and died because they idolized this moron and wanted to be like him. Where is there article. No one made him take drugs he had a choice thats life and drugs were more important. Anyone who feels sad for this man must have a pretty sheltered view on life cause more important people habe died for way less
Maybe you’re the one with a sheltered view. Maybe it isn’t as hard for you in life and I envy you.
Keep doing what you’re doing, but I need to ask you: where did you get the idea that kids took drugs because of him? If he’s the cause, there would have come another cause anyway, if it’s even true what you’re saying…
And he didn’t choose drugs, he struggled and it’s a (bad) way of coping. No one chose to be addicted, stop being ignorant.