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  • - Hey, what's up you guys?

  • Chelsea Briggs here with Billboard

  • and I am joined by Juice Wrld.

  • - Hey guys, what's up?

  • - How's it going?

  • - I'm good no complaints, how about you?

  • - I'm doing really well.

  • I'm excited for you, we're on the set

  • of your Billboard cover shoot, right now.

  • It's been a crazy 2018 for you,

  • obviously it's flooded over to 2019.

  • What's been like the biggest challenge

  • for you maybe through this process?

  • - A lot of people that you know

  • get in the position that I'm at,

  • change up, become fake, become phony, become paranoid.

  • Just a lot of things that,

  • you know that come with it.

  • And the way that I cope with it,

  • like I'm still the same person.

  • - Yeah!

  • - I'm still like the same down to earth person.

  • I still like the same stuff.

  • I still play the same video games.

  • (Chelsea laughing)

  • Like everything.

  • - I'm super excited you're releasing

  • your sophomore album, A Deathrace for Love,

  • coming up here soon.

  • What can you tell your fans about it?

  • What can we expect for this album?

  • - I kind of got the idea

  • from one of the songs on the project,

  • called Alfine..

  • and the Rider,

  • song's called Rider.

  • Twisted Metal was one of

  • my favorite games coming up.

  • - Oh, cool.

  • - It's like a Death Race game, and I thought I'll

  • just incorporate Twisted Metal...

  • and like...

  • Death Race to like...

  • hanging onto a relationship,

  • or doing what you have to do to maintain a relationship,

  • or going through hell.

  • To fix something that's a--

  • to get somebody back, it's just.

  • Pretty much what it consists of.

  • But the album is a...

  • it's a little bit of everything.

  • It's not just rap, it's not just rock.

  • It's not just jazz or alterna--

  • it's like a little bit of everything.

  • - You were telling me a little bit about,

  • you know, just how you've struggled

  • with anxiety over the years.

  • Do you feel you touch on that

  • a little bit in this album?

  • - Yeah I do touch on it, I do.

  • That's something I've let a lot of people neglect.

  • Which is completely and utterly wrong.

  • And me speaking from...

  • an African-American man,

  • I know that this stuff is neglected.

  • Like our community.

  • You know, you tell your Mommy, or Daddy,

  • or Auntie or whoever that you feel

  • like you got anxiety, if like you got depression,

  • you feel like you got ADD or whatever.

  • They all look at you like you're crazy.

  • But you ain't got that go, get out of here like.

  • Are you going to tell me

  • I don't got something, you know?

  • That's not how it should be,

  • but that's how it is

  • and that needs to change.

  • Then hopefully I'm one of those people that can bring-

  • - Yeah!

  • - That change or at least start a chain reaction

  • for somebody else to come and do it after me.

  • - That's awesome.

  • I commend you for doing that, putting that out there.

  • Is it- Do you feel like it's a therapy for you?

  • To sing about something like anxiety

  • that affects you so deeply.

  • - Yeah, for sure.

  • Just me and my thoughts out there

  • and it me like I can pour my soul out

  • on the beats...

  • is like me venting.

  • And that's funny you say

  • that 'cause I've literally said it before.

  • That my music is like my therapy sessions

  • but there's no confidentiality.

  • I put it out there for people

  • to receive...

  • re-evaluate...

  • and learn, can grab my hand and walk with me

  • through whatever they may be going through.

  • You know?

  • (Soft jingly music)

- Hey, what's up you guys?

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