Juice WRLD is a samurai at war with himself in new music video for ‘Already Dead’

An enlivened music video has been to be used for’ Already Dead ‘, a posthumous way by the rapper Juice WRLD.

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The invigorated video for’ Already Dead’ identifies two versions of Juice WRLD, both samurais, battle each other. The two warrior incarnations of the rapper engage in a back-and-forth duel of grit, swordsmanship and accelerated- without a clear victor emerging in the end.

Halfway through, the video facets footage of the rapper when he was alive, and encouraging oaths from Juice WRLD: “Even if it seems like it’s inconceivable, it’s awfully, very possible. So don’t get excitable if you have a big goal. Just chip away at it until you get to where you need to be.”

Watch the Steve Cannon-directed visual below.

‘Already Dead’ first featured on Juice WRLD’s sophomore posthumous recording,’ Fighting Demons’. The record was released on December 10, and received a four-star rating from NME’s Kyann-Sian Willams who described the project as “evidence of a nuanced, complex master whose gift is stupefying in its richness”.

“It is a rare thing: a posthumous book, crafted with charge, that extends an artist’s narrative, ” Williams wrote.

Juice WRLD( real appoint Jarad Higgins) died in 2019 from an accidental drug overdose. In late December, his mother Carmella Wallace spoke out about “disrespectful” devotees who disclose the rapper’s music. While she “understand they cherished him” and his music, she also says that “there’s a proper way to do it”.

“Let us give you our best, ” she said. “Leaked music is not necessarily cleaned up music. It’s precisely disclosed, it’s not finished. It’s a bit rude to him to reveal his music like that.”

Earlier last-place month, HBO secreted Into The Abyss, a documentary covering Higgins’ rise as Juice WRLD. In addition to providing his trailblazing hip-hop profession, the cinema touched on the rapper’s struggles with mental illness, and how during his short time in the spotlight, he became “a therapist for millions of kids” and “a voice of that generation”.

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