Juice WRLD - Into the Abyss: Some thoughts.
It's a story you've heard a thousand times in the entertainment industry, but it never gets old. I've seen a lot of rock stars I grew up with in the 90s drop like flies: Andrew Wood, Kurt Cobain, Shannon Hoon, Layne Staley, Mike Starr, Chris Cornell, and I'm sure many more I can't remember off the top of my head. So now there's a new generation of whipper snappers lazily dubbed "zoomers," who not only see their favorite rappers die, but see them die so early in their lives that they don't even make it to the infamous "27 Club." I refer to XXX Tentacion, Lil Peep, Mac Miller, and Juice WRLD. Juice WRLD had a documentary released this year subtitled Into the Abyss. It is a death march of a man who feels his time is growing short even as he is at the peak of his popularity. The doc opens with Juice summoning lyrics from thin air. He alternates between those he loves and those unnamed foes that he verbally shits on. He follows, or more...