How To Write Songs Like Juice World In 4 Simple Steps (Tips + Examples)

In today’s video, we’re going to show you how to write songs like Juice Wrld in 4 simple steps.

Juice Wrld’s prodigious musical output, melodic agility, and cultural impact is still reverberating through the industry today, and while many videos on YouTube champion his abilities…

…There have been few if any that have show in a systematic manner exactly how to write songs like Juice Wrld and how his songwriting can be used as a jumping off point for the creative sounds of the next generation of musical artists.

So, if you’re a rap artist attempting to improve their songwriting craft or simply a fan of the songs of Juice Wrld, this is the video for you.

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 #4 Speed-Up, Slow-Down Tempos
2:38 #3 High-Low Melody Contrast
4:25 #2 2-Bar Flow Changes 
6:20 #1 2nd Person Conversational Tone

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The first key to understanding how Juice Wrld constructed songs in such a way that almost immediately blasted him into musical prominence is understanding what music sounded like BEFORE his came into fame.

Melodic rap-singing prior to Juice Wrld was often comprised of longer held notes and easy to follow melodic lines without much complexity.

The 808’s and Heartbreak era of Kanye West, the work of Kid Cudi, and the pop songs of Drake all inhabited this admittedly infectious style of rap-singing. Those artists’ 2010’s hits were mainly made up of long, slow notes and big choruses.

When Juice Wrld’s “Lucid Dreams” rose into the national spotlight, the chorus was filled with many more words – but still with a strong melody – than previous rap-singing anthems of that era.

Compare the amount of words in the chorus of “Lucid Dreams” to the amount of words of “Day N’ Nite” by Kid Cudi or “Paranoid” by Kanye West for example.

This word-stacked chorus comes in stark contrast to the verse section of “Lucid Dreams” holds longer notes during the “you left me falling and landing inside my grave”…

Which brings us to our #4 step on how to write songs like Juice Wrld: utilize Speed-Up, Slow-Down tempos. In other words use the contrast of lyrically stacked and word-heavy sections with longer note portions of the song.

We’ve already discussed how “Lucid Dreams” has a word-heavy chorus to contrast the simpler verses, now we can look at Juice Wrld doing the reverse in a song like “Lean Wit Me”.

In this case, he begins with a word-heavy intro from the line “what’s got me sweating but the room getting colder” that rolls into the simpler chorus in the “lean with me… pop with me” hook.

Therefore, the rule of speeding up and slowing down tempo to write songs like Juice Wrld isn’t limited to only word-heavy choruses and simpler verses. They can be used in reference for the same effect.

Now that you know what to listen for, have your ears tuned into the different “tempo contrasts” Juice used through different sections of his songs.

Now, this use of contrast is not only limited to the tempo (or speed) of his words.

Juice Wrld also lifted some inspiration from the Kanye Wests and Drakes of the world by utilizing the contrast of high melodies alongside low melodies to maximum effect.

A song like “Say You Will” by Kanye West where the verse is a very low register and the chorus is an epic “wide” set of high notes helped set the sonic landscape for Juice to come in and expand what is possible musically in rap-sung performances.

For example, listen to the chorus of “All Girls Are The Same” for example where the hook itself is sung in a higher register…

…And yet that contrasts quite a bit with lower tone notes of the verses within the song.

This is even clearer on a track like “Wasted” featuring Lil’ Uzi Vert where Juice has a low register chorus, then starts the first 4 bars (bars in this case meaning lines of rap) of his verse with a high-note set of lines through a walkie-talkie filter, and then returns to the more conversational sounding low notes for the middle of the verse.

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