The Party Never Ends by Juice WRLD
The Party Never Ends is the fifth and final studio album by American rapper Juice Wrld. It was posthumously released through Grade A Productions and Interscope Records on November 29, 2024. It features guest appearances from Nicki Minaj, Benny Blanco, Eminem, the Kid Laroi, Offset, and Fall Out Boy. The album cover was designed by Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami. Background In July 2021, Higgins' manager Lil Bibby hinted at the plans for the album, including that it is the first installment in a trilogy and would include a few featured artists. On February 4, 2023, Higgins' estate announced that the album was in active development. The Party Never Ends is Juice WRLD’s final album. His future releases are to be determined by his estate.
Perhaps it’s true that more unreleased music from the late Juice WRLD is never a bad thing, particularly for fans who grew up alongside the beloved rapper’s melancholy melodies. His third (and ostensibly final) posthumous album, released just shy of the five-year anniversary of his tragic death in 2019, fills the void with 18 more tracks of misfit music. The themes of <i>The Party Never Ends</i> are familiar: doomed love, vicious cycles, numbing out and fighting demons, sung in an anguished warble over emo-inflected trap beats. But it’s profoundly chilling to hear Juice deliver lines like “Oxycodone knows my soul, makes me whole/Death melodies on my stereo” (“Oxycodone”), or when he concludes on “Misfit”, “I was pretty cool in my last life.” Nor does it feel much like a party when Eminem, one of Juice’s biggest inspirations, recounts his own struggles with addiction on “Lace It”: “Do not think I take it for granted that I’m still here, synthetic heroin, you/Tried to kill me, then you murdered Jarad, didn’t you?” Then he warns young listeners: “I ain’t lecturing you but, man, just be careful.”
