Juice WRLD’s Estate Releases ‘The Pre-Party’ Two-Pack Featuring Young Thug
Juice WRLD’s estate has released two new songs packaged as part of the late Chicago rapper’s The Pre-Party EP. Both “World Tour (Aquafina)” and “Lightyears” featuring Young Thug hit streaming services via Grade A Productions on Monday (Sept. 9).
The Pre-Party two-pack serves as Juice’s first official release of 2024, following his posthumous guest appearance on friend Ski Mask The Slump God’s “Wake Up” in June.
“World Tour (Aquafina)” isn’t foreign to diehard Juice fans who may recall him previewing the braggadocios record on his Instagram Live back in 2018. “I’m a real n—a, nah, I’m not an actor/ Double cup with that red lean, I’ma sip classy/ Dior on my feet, I feel classy,” he raps over the DJ Relentt production.
The guitar-driven “Lightyears” was teased by Juice and then Young Thug on social media just prior to the COVID-19 shutdown in February 2020. “Lucid Dreams” producer and frequent collaborator Nick Mira helms the woozy production here.
It’s far from the first time that Thugger and Juice have mixed their syrupy genre-blending flows. They connected in the past on tracks such as “Money,” “Mannequin Challenge,” “Bad boy,” “On God” and “Rich N—a Shit.”
The EP comes ahead of the long-rumored and much-anticipated The Party Never Ends album, which is slated to be Juice WRLD’s third and final posthumous LP. His last album arrived in 2021 with Fighting Demons, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 119,000 album-equivalent units.
In August, Juice WRLD reached another posthumous milestone when his “Lucid Dreams” anthem eclipsed one billion views on YouTube. It’s the first video of his to do so.
Juice WRLD — born Jarad Higgins — died at age 21 due to an accidental oxycodone and codeine intoxication on Dec. 8, 2019.
Listen to the two-pack below.
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