Lil Bibby: Last News

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer For obvious reasons, posthumous albums are always a challenge to create. And from Jimi Hendrix to Nat King Cole to Tupac, some have been successful commercially and creatively — others, not so much.
 But when Lil Bibby tweeted, “The Party Never Ends,” in May 2021, he didn’t think the project he was teasing — the third and final posthumous album from genre-bending rapper Juice WRLD — would take three years to assemble.

Juice WRLD has been released, along with a haunting verse from Eminem – listen to the track below.Produced by Benny Blanco, the song features Juice WRLD (real name Jarad Anthony Higgins), who passed away in 2019 due to an accidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine. ‘Lace It’ sees the rapper repeatedly request to “lace it”: “Roll it up, lace it, pop a few to chase it/I’m in my own Matrix, none of this shit makes sense.”The song also sees the legendary Eminem deliver a touching verse about his own struggles with addiction.

Juice WRLD songs have been streamed over 100 million times each on Sotify since his death.The figure was reported by Chart Data just over a year after the later rapper’s overdose.It comes just weeks after he was crowned Spotify’s most streamed artist in the US and fourth in the world overall in 2020.His posthumous album ‘Legends Never Die’was also the most streamed album of the year on Spotify.Juice WRLD now has fifty songs with at least 100 million streams each on Spotify.— chart data (@chartdata) February 16, 2021Juice WRLD died on December 8, 2019 after suffering cardiac arrest at Chicago’s Midway International Airport at the age of 21.His label boss Lil Bibby recently revealed that the rapper signed up for rehab just days before his