Juice WRLD - Robbery

by Creed Griffiths

Senior Editor

/ RAP

February 19, 2019

Juice WRLD returns with “Robbery”, the first single from his follow up project to 2018’s Goodbye & Good Riddance.

Juice WRLD’s charm can be found in his fusion of Emo Punk and Hip Hop and he has proven his skills as a pure lyricist in countless freestyles over the past year. Goodbye & Good Riddance centres around the theme of a bad breakup, dealing with the heartache that ensues and finally, a form of closure as the woman depicted in his storyline ends up wanting him back, by which case it’s too late. As far as an album with a central theme goes, you will not find many more projects within this genre as consistent or detailed. Juice WRLD continuously bores into the audience his feelings of loss, betrayal, deception and pain. Even if the content can feel a little repetitive as the record comes to a close, at least the message is clear and delivered in such a way that entertainment can still be found, perhaps at the expense of originality.

Between the months of Goodbye & Good Riddance and Robbery, Juice WRLD has teased with snippets of new music across various social media platforms, all with the same depressive, yet melodic tone, focusing on drug use, expensive clothes and his emotions.

To say Robbery is a disappointment is an understatement. To the casual fan, it will sound familiar and feel comfortable as it appears to be cut from the exact same template as every track that made it onto his debut album. Juice WRLD has made no stylistic advancement in the months between projects and lines like; “One thing my dad told me was, 'Never let your woman know/When you’re insecure'” is no message for a father to pass on to his son.

Robbery is produced and performed well, but its disappointment comes from

the lack of innovation and creative advancement by Juice WRLD. Goodbye & Good Riddance was a huge success and catapulted Juice WRLD into the mainstream, but if a carbon copy repeat of that is what follows then he may find himself swallowed up quickly in the saturated market of today’s music landscape.

The image used in this post is a reproduction of the original album art work. This property is owned by Grade A Productions/Interscope Records © 2019.