First posthumous album by Juice WRLD, son of SoundCloud among the greatest exponents of emo rap.
For this effort, of the thousands of tracks recorded by the rapper who died in 2019, a selection of 21 (initially 15) was made: the album maintains the typical themes of WRLD and dedicates a couple of songs to his girlfriend Ally Lotti, however there's an excess of producers (over twenty) and different authors (about fifty), not to mention the cameos of Tripple Redd, Polo G, The Kid Laroi, Marshmello and Halsey, all more or less decent but not essential.
The album falls below the hour, but is way too bloated with several avoidable generic tunes and some good ones. The rapper's decent light-hearted delivery here is varied, ending between rapping, speaking and singing on several generic trap beats with EDM vibes: the best tracks come when the rock elements become more prominent to support the hooks and lines of WRLD or when he opts for a spoken-sung soulful delivery on a better than usual production. Overall, it's a better record than what you'd expect from a posthumous album, not a masterpiece but not disappointing either.
Highlights: "Conversation", "Righteous", "Screw Juice", "Man of the Year". Excellent cut, Skrillex invents a rockin' rhythm, hip hop and not trap, good sung-spoken delivery of Juice, but too short song.
Rating: 6.5/10.
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