What Juice WRLD Learned From Kanye And Fall Out Boy's Sadness

Juice WRLD, MTV's Push artist for the month of November, may be young, although he still is aware what it's like to hang with the modern hip-hop establishment. The 19-year-old rapper is fresh off a joint release with Future called WRLD On Drugs, which also features appearances by Lil Wayne, Young Thug, and Nicki Minaj. Although his fashion is more varied than his résumé might suggest.


several months prior, Juice sat down with MTV News for a game of This Or That, where he also made clear his love for Fall Out Boy, also, and specifically shouted out the song "I Slept With Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Silly Song Written About Me" as a highlight. "That song is really, really, really, really hard to me, and the rest of [2005's From Under the Cork Tree] had the same kinda vibe to it," he said.


He shared the same love for Kanye West's seminal 2008 album 808s & Heartbreak ("The songs made me sad ... I don't know why, you know?") In a new interview with MTV where the young artist also lose some light on his creative process and why the song "Lean Wit Me" came together.


"I freestyle everything," Juice mentioned. "I come in there kinda just blind. If I write right now, I feel like I overthink, and the stuff sounds way better any time it's off instinct 'cause it's more organic. It's not forced. Some days I just go in and the opening thing comes out of my mouth is what's on the song."


For "Lean Wit Me," what ended up on the song is, at times, pretty dark: "Will I perish tonight? I don't know, is it over? / Lookin' for my next high, I'm lookin' for closure." However that sort of self-introspection just puts in him league with his musical ancestors like Kanye and Fall Out Boy.


And if Juice's process of creation is a little different from that of the Fall Out Boy dudes, at least he can know that emotionally, his, songs like those on Cork Tree, came from a place of feeling disconnected, also. "I think, especially In the United States, that people don't realize it's OK to feel down and sad some days bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz told The Independent in 2006. "It is piece of the cycle of feeling OK. In the event you never feel sad, how do suggest in case you are OK?"


One listen of "Lean Wit Me" and you also begin thinking maybe Juice can get in back of that sentiment, also. Watch Juice WRLD's efficiency of "Lean Wit Me" above.