Photo Credit: Joel MunizJuice WRLD music track leaks are ‘disrespectful’ to the rapper’s memory, his mother says.
After the Chicago native died in 2019, Juice WRLD’s popularity has skyrocketed. Unreleased music and collaborations with the rapper have been leaked to the masses. His mother, Carmella Wallace, calls the practice of leaking music without authorization ‘disrespectful.’ In a recent interview with XXL, Wallace spoke about her son’s unreleased music floating around the internet.
“I understand they loved him. They loved his music, but there’s a proper way to do it,” Wallace told XXL. “Let us give you our best. Leaked music is not necessarily cleaned-up music; it’s just leaked, it’s not finished. So, it’s just a lot of work just going into it.”
“It’s a bit disrespectful to him, honestly, to leak his music like that. But I know that monster is there, been there, and it’s not going anywhere. We can just do our part and put out good music. He made a lot of good music.”
According to a report from Digital Music News earlier this year, there are over 2,000 unreleased songs in the rapper’s catalog. No wonder there are so many unauthorized Juice WRLD music leaks.
After his death, the rapper’s family issued a statement about what they planned to do with the unreleased music. Some of those tracks have made it into two posthumous albums, including Legends Never Die in 2020 and Fighting Demons in 2021.
“We plan to honor Juice’s talents, his spirit, and the love he felt for his fans by sharing unreleased music and other projects that he was passionately in the process of developing,” the Juice WRLD family’s statement at the time reads.
The 21-year-old rapper died at Chicago’s Midway Airport after suffering a seizure. Medical examiners ruled his death an accidental drug overdose after finding oxycodone and codeine in the rapper’s system.
With more than 2,000 unreleased songs in his catalog, Juice WRLD fans have plenty of official releases that are likely on the horizon.
