The final posthumous album by Juice WRLD is now “in the works” and will arrive soon, the late rapper’s friend and head of the Grade A Productions label Lil Bibby has now confirmed. Bibby shared a clip of Juice WRLD in the studio on his Instagram and claimed that he wanted the new album to feel like “a celebration”.
Bibby wrote, “The Last Juice WRLD Album is in the works. Let’s celebrate the life of Juice. No more mourning, I want everyone that Juice loved while he was here to help celebrate, especially his fans who he loved!” He added: “You guys have been the best fans an artist can have (Minus the death threats to Bibby). I’m not gonna complain but i’ll jus say this is not easy. We miss you, We love you 999 til the world ends.”
It was in December 2019 that Juice WRLD tragically passed away at the age of 21 after he suffered a drug-induced seizure at the Midway Airport in Chicago, just months after his second album, Death Race for Love, was released.
Following Juice WRLD’s death, Legends Never Die, a posthumous album, was released in 2020. This was followed up by another posthumous album entitled Fighting Demons, which came in December 2021. Then, in February of last year, two previously unreleased Juice WRLD tracks, ‘Go Hard 2.0’ and ‘Cigarettes’ were also released.
Fighting Demons saw guest features from a swathe of high-profile musicians, including Eminem, Justin Bieber and BTS’ Suga, and it was released alongside the HBO-made documentary Into the Abyss. A further tribute to Juice WRLD came at Reading Festival last year when Polo G asked his DJ to play the late rapper’s ‘Armed and Dangerous’ in full, with both Polo G and the crowd rapping along to the track. Afterwards, Polo G simply said, “R.I.P. J Dawg, man.”