Juice WRLD - Feel The Way It Feels (Prod. Juicephoria x Prod. @benqqq)
Channel: JuicedUpOnTheInside
Date: 27/10/2023

We ain't just making songs here, we makin' vibes. We makin' history even while we creepin' on the come up. Feeling the way it feels is all about using your imagination. Slipping into someone else's mind for a moment, leaving behind the suffering and the agony we go thru. This is the magic of the elusive contact high my friends. And who else to do it better than the most united collective to ever exist in music? Juicetopians live this life fr, we ain't playin' games and we ain't after the money or the clout. We about this life and all that it entails, the good, the bad & the ugly. Slaying your demons becomes second nature when you got your brothers riding alongside with you on this journey of life.

Now let's get into this. Starting with how to escape the Abyss that the wrong typa girl's so often become gatekeepers of. First and foremost, we save NO hoes. Period. This is sacrosanct. I know, I know, the temptation always exists and always tries to draw us in. It ain't Sunday and we ain't a pastor, so it's not our responsibility to take care of women that clearly can't take care of themselves. Living in Switzerland after growing up in America has shown me the difference in certain types of girls. In America, if you find yourself a real one, that girl will hold you down all day. She cares about your heart and she would actually cry if you would leave, salt of the earth type shit. In Switzerland and most of Europe, a relationship is more of an exchange than a bond with expectations that are objectively cruel to the spirit of love. Let me make this one thing clear. We are not meant to provide for women. We are not meant to save them from themselves. We are meant to ride for those that ride for us. The ones that echo the sentimentality of this question: would you cry for me cus I would die for you? I had one girl like that in my life, met her when I was 14, fell deeply in love, and had my heart ripped out of my chest a yr later when my dad's job forced us to move across the world. Shit hurts but Father Time had a different plan for us. I look back at it fondly, even if I never find another one like her, cus the memories we made last our life long. The loss has become clouded by the triple 9's that created distance from the pain. Time heals all wounds, and even if shit ain't alright yet, we still try even if we know we gone fail.

One of the deepest parts of this song that always moves me is the sincerity of Juice's sentiments when he wonders if you feel the way I feel? An impossibly difficult experience to describe accurately with words, apart from a succinct word created by the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego. Mamihlapinatapai describes a look that without words is shared by two people who want to initiate something, but that neither will start or looking at each other hoping that the other will offer to do something which both parties desire but are unwilling to do. Fuckin' story of my life. Always waiting, hesitating for the perfect moment that never seems to come. That girl that I was talkin' about, what made her different is she approached me. Cool, calm and sweet, with a devious confidence that could get you to do anything she wanted. She was just real, a genuine soul wearing her heart on her sleeve always. She gave me the confidence I always needed, so that's the type of girl you wanna ride for for life. Going back to mamihlapinatapai, Juice provides yet another antidote in this song. He declares with certainty, maybe you don't but still, maybe you won't, I will. I never been in therapy before but I imagine this is what an effective therapist would be able to show you. A shift in perspective, a change of consciousness that allows you to change your habitual behavior swiftly and surely. Juice gives us the strength to be the better man. To take the higher road. Like Drake's mom once said on a voice recording, when other's go low, we go high. Let ppl do the foul shit they do, let 'em do nothing at all to help you while you're trying with all the strength you got left in you, but don't let 'em rob you of even an ounce of your energy. Don't give 'em a second thought and certainly don't stoop down to their level. Just because you encountered ppl in life that treated you like shit, that overlooked you, that were cruel and jaded, doesn't mean you have to become them. Just cus your dad wasn't the man he should have been for you, neglecting to build you up which is the least a son could expect, doesn't mean you have to mimic that behavior. We have nobility in us as artists & visionaries, noble intentions and a heart of gold, so don't let the dirt rub off on it. You don't have to become a shell of who you once were, no matter what trauma you went thru. No matter who hurt you. No matter who failed to love you unconditionally. You decide what kinda man you want to be in this world. Sooner or later, the world will see the truth, the ppl who tear others down and the ones that build others up. 999 'til the world blow.