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Juice WRLD’s Final Album: How Leaks, Fans and Delays Brought His Career to a Close


Juice WRLD's associates discuss how the hundreds of leaked records impacted assembling the rapper's final album.

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. Combating misinformation became background noise around the production: There were rumors that it was delayed because Bibby’s X account got hacked and whispers that it went through seven iterations under Juice’s engineer Max Lord before being handed over to producer Benny Blanco, who declined to speak for this story. Upbeat numbers “Celebrate,” featuring Offset, and lead single “All Girls Are the Same 2,” with Nicki Minaj, aim to please the fans who complained that the first two posthumous releases were too introspective.

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