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On March 8, 2019, Chicago rapper Juice WRLD released his second studio album Death Race for Love. The album, which has a VERY long track with 22 songs, features introspective, dark, and melodramatic melodies. Death Race for Love has genres that we already had a glimpse of in his first studio album Goodbye & Good Riddance, which were hip-hop, rock, emo and punk.

Back in February 14 Lyrical Lemonade produced a music video for Juice WRLD’s single “Robbery”. This was the first time fans got to hear a song of his album. I didn’t really like the song because I just thought it was a little bit corny and cringy. Either way it’s become one of his most popular songs, racking up 73,746,076 views up to this date.

What I’ve learned from him is that what separates him from a lot of artists, especially rappers, is that he has a knack for storytelling and taking listeners through the story of his life, which is one of many heartbreaks and drug addiction. Even though he speaks about his reality, I’m kind of tired of hearing rappers talk about drugs in their songs, especially Juice WRLD because he LITERALLY refers to drugs in every single one of his songs. I’m not saying its his fault because at the end of the day he can write about whatever he wants, I’m just saying that its getting pretty repetitive and uninteresting to hear, especially for 22 tracks. Its time to change the franchise around and start talking about things that are more intriguing and creative.

My favorite tracks are “Empty”, “Make Believe”, “Fast”, “Hear Me Calling” and “Syphilis”. I don’t consider them to be great songs, but they are the ones that I kind of like. Al so, the fact that the album is 72 minutes long and has 22 tracks is a mayor reason why a lot of people, including me, fell off of the album midway through. He preferred quantity over quality. I think it would of been better if he released just 11 songs on the album, and then later on made a mixtape with the other half of the songs because its too long and it gets pretty boring very fast, especially considering that he doesn’t really change his flow and lyricism. Overall, I don’t think this was a grade A album. I do think though that avid Juice WRLD listeners liked the album. Hopefully, he can release a better and shorter album the next time.