Juice WRLD - You Ain't Bout Yours, Baby I'm Bout Mine (Prod. Juicephoria x Prod. @benqqq)
Channel: JuicedUpOnTheInside
Date: 22/11/2023

Here we go. The credo, the manifesto, the sacrosanct philosophy of Juicetopians: you ain't bout yours, baby i'm bout mine. What we do in the meantime, while we go thru the agony waiting on them better days. But we ain't just waiting, wasting the time away, cus we rly bout ours. There's 2 dimensions to this philosophy. The first being, when others don't do us right, we take the higher road as the better man. We earn ours thru merit, even in the face of adversity, even when others treat us poorly or unfairly. You know why? Cus that shit is a representation of who they are, not who we are. We didn't ask for this treatment nor did we deserve it, and yet it didn't even fucking phase us. If you can't find the strength within you to operate on this ruthless level, then find strength in the music. Both the music you create and the music that speaks to your soul. Use it as a cloak of protection that guides you thru the ups & downs in life. 

The second dimension to this philosophy lies in Juice's genius to inspire us into action. By saying you ain't bout yours, he's not only speaking on other ppl and their lack of devotion, but he's also delineating our own character. He's creating an ultimatum for you to decide which side you're on, as he so often does. It's an open introspection inviting you to decide, are you bout yours like me? The more you let it sink in, the more you find yourself. He reveals us to ourselves with such ease that it's gotta be divine. I don't know anyone else that can do it as quick & effectively as Juice can.

So then when we do decide that we wanna be bout ours, what does it entail exactly? Well for starters, devotion to a cause higher than you is a good place to begin. Whether that's in relation to your family, your loved ones, or your guardian angels all across the world that are always by your side making music & vibing together. But devotion without discipline is just like a wish without a plan, without action behind it. Discipline is the glue that cements a man's nobility, character & merit all together. That's why it's important to find smth you love more than anything in this world, that you'll never give up on no matter how bleak things look. Because then your efforts won't feel like work but rather a labor of love. When you find that thing that you and only you can do in this world, discipline becomes second nature. You don't even have to think about it, it won't seem like effort, cus the perfection of your craft is obviously in your best interest. Not to mention that it's funnest fucking thing in the world you could possibly do. What's more fun than accomplishing smth that nobody else can do? And then perfecting it, finessing the formula until everything you do becomes greatness. But you ain't even gotta think about it, cus all this happens in the subconscious. Once you've achieved this serene flow state, you'll become aware of everything I just described & you'll look back and realize, holy shit I been grinding this whole damn time. Look at all your efforts manifesting, all the articulations of your mind to show for all the time you spent.

If you enjoy thinking about existential stuff like me, then you'll come to find that time is a true paradox. There's plenty of it while we have it but when we run out of it, we start to chase after it. Regrets start to dominate the mind and you find yourself not being able to move forward cus all you do is think about the past. Juice liberates us from this torment because he gives us a new hope, a new dream, a new vibe to focus on. And before you know it, you've moved past the past and wallowing in your sorrows because you did smth productive with your time. You got smth to show for it. Music is one of the best ways to achieve this because music is quite literally a recording of time. The time of the song in question, the time you spent making the song, all the time you spent dreaming up new dreams that are now embodied in a new piece. It's like a mf Turducken of Time, time stuffed in time stuffed within more time. So it's like the best way to save time, even if it's futile in the end; music is literally the ultimate time capsule. Why do you think Peep & Juice spoke so often about living forever in the music? This desire has always existed and will always exist. We wanna be remembered for smth, we want our lives to matter, to stand for smth, so that it wasn't all for nothing. The solution is simple, put your soul into your art and your spirit will live on forever. Objects, people, physical art will all decay in time. That's just the nature of reality. But smth as intangible as music can't decay because it's in the ethereal realm. We can't touch it but we can feel it. And if it's truly timeless music, it will speak to ppl for all time to come. So whenever you feel like dying, whenever hope is fading, whenever you give in to the futility of our existence, always remember the people who reach greatness in their lifetime will be remembered forever.