Juice Wrld – Death Race For Love

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Death Race builds on Juices instinct to distill emotion rather than tell a story. On the opening track Empty, he gestures towards the affected nihilism of his 2018 debut album Goodbye and Good Riddance and uncorks the incredible eye-roller, My world revolves around a black hole / the same black hole thats in place of my soul. Death Race is rife with clunkers like these but its 22 tracks also constitute an unmistakable step forward for Juice WRLDs sadboy aesthetic, which has now become broader and more richly textured. The albums most compelling moments are Juices realizations that his money wont solve his problems: Its been months since I felt at home / But its okay cause Im rich / Sike, Im still sad as a bitch, he sings matter-of-factly on Fast. On Robbery, he offers the reverse humblebrag, One thing my dad told me was, Never let your woman know when youre insecure / So I put Gucci on the fur / And I put my wrist on iceberg. These admissions provide a grounding context for his emotional distress that his previous work has generally lacked; here, he appears less of an avatar of suffering and more like a human.