Lil Bibby, the former manager of the late Juice WRLD, revealed on Twitter that the 999 club has plenty of reasons to celebrate this weekend.
The first cause for celebration was that a new posthumous Juice WRLD song called “Cigarettes” hit streaming platforms on Friday (February 4), which Lil Bibby shared on Twitter. He then followed up the tweet with the second piece of good news.
“Oh and Lucid Dreams is Diamond,” Bibby wrote. “Thank you 999 forever.”
“Cigarettes” is the first new piece of music from Juice since his 2021 posthumous album Fighting Demons. The album boasted features from Polo G, Trippie Redd, and Justin Bieber, and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, earning 119,000 equivalent album units in its debut week. This equals out to 155.49 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs.
While the success of the album was all well and good, Lil Bibby said in an interview with Complex that a clip of Lil Wayne discussing his mental health was the one add-on he really wanted to include on the project, but that it simply didn’t clear in time.
“It’s always tough clearing everything,” Bibby said. “I had got this footage from this Lil Wayne interview, and it was really meaningful, really powerful.
“It was Lil Wayne talking about how he had mental health, and he shot himself. The cops saved him. So I felt like that was really meaningful. And up until yesterday, we were even trying to clear it, and we couldn’t clear it.”
Juice’s former manager Peter Jideonwo added, “We got denied—not by [Lil Wayne], not the interviewer, but the actual studio that owns the content. And something like that puts a hole in the album.”
With the new diamond certification, Juice WRLD joins the ranks of other legendary rappers like Drake, Eminem, Outkast, Post Malone, Lil Nas X, The Weeknd, Nelly and The Notorious B.I.G.
Watch the animated music video to “Cigarettes” below as well as the video for “Lucid Dreams,” which currently has over 780 million views.
Lil Shitty sucks. So does (did?) Juice Wrld
Juice was great at freestyling but his actual music was trash. He wasted his talent writing sad songs and being a depressed pop rapper, when he could’ve wrote some actual fire and potentially became a true legend
First off Juice Wrld didn’t waste his talent he was great at both freestyling and rapping his actual songs their probably a reason why he wrote those depressed songs he went threw some things and probably had some hard times before he was famous so you can’t say that his actual songs are trash and that he wasted his talent writing those songs he went threw things some people didn’t go threw Juice Wrld has a really good heart for his fans and family
man what??? how the f*** was juice bad at rapping is my question? and also he didn’t just write depressing songs, he wrote some fire ass songs but you wouldn’t know bc ur not an actual fan of juice.
Cigarettes isn’t actually new. Officially released yeah, new no. Cigarettes is an ep from his “underground or unreleased” its been out but it’s under a different alias he uses. Which there are a couple.
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