Chicago-born rapper Juice WRLD has officially released his sophomore album, Death Race for Love, via Grade A and Interscope Records.
Along with guest appearances by Brent Faiyaz, Clever, and Young Thug, the album features am arsenal of top level producers including Toronto’s own Boi-1da and Frank Dukes. Boi-1da is credited with production on “Maze” and “Make Believe,” while Frank Dukes produced “Fast.” Some of the other producers featured on the project include Cardo, Hit-Boy, Rvssian, Yung Exclusive, DY, Jahaan Sweet, Purps, and more.
And in another Canadian connection to the project, Daniel Caesar’s “Who Hurt You?” is sampled on the Camden Bench and Arin Ray-produced, “10 Feet.”
In terms of visual support, Lyrical Lemonade presented the video for “Robbery” back on Valentine’s Day. Check that out along with the project, further down in the post. His new video for “Hear Me Calling” is scheduled to drop tomorrow morning at 11 a.m.
You can find Death Race for Love on various digital streaming platforms including Apple Music and Spotify.
Chicago rapper Juice WRLD’s ascent happened so quickly that in the same year he released his 2018 debut Goodbye & Good Riddance, he was able to scratch an item off his career bucket list: creating WRLD on Drugs, a collaborative project with Future. Just five months after that, anxious to reacquaint the listening public with his own voice, Juice WRLD has delivered Death Race for Love—22 tracks, with only Brent Faiyaz, Clever, and Young Thug as guests.
The significance of extra, unadulterated Juice WLRD is not lost on the MC, who raps on the project’s opener, Empty: “I was put here to lead the lost souls.”
As operating practice, Juice WRLD trades in the dramatic—singing or rapping about love as the force powering his will to live, and also the one responsible for his inevitable undoing. He reaches his poetic peak on “Won’t Let Go,” crooning, “You can bury me with her/And if she die before me, kill me/And carry me with her.”
In Oct. 2018, Juice WRLD teamed up with Future to release the Wrld on Drugs mixtape.
Conversely, the love interest of “Make Believe” meets a grim fate, with Juice WRLD admitting, “I figure she was gonna break my heart regardless/So I took her out and dumped her in the garbage.”
Elsewhere on the album are dramatically drawn-out beat changes (“10 Feet”), multiple flows within single songs (“The Bees Knees”), studied introspection (“Flaws and Sins”), and even a touch of flowery dancehall (“Hear Me Calling”). The cover of Death Race for Love features an illustrated version of Juice WRLD hovering over a demolition derby of sorts, likening the album to a video game. And not unlike a popular gaming title, there’s enough to explore within Death Race to keep all who engage it entertained for untold hours.
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