Righteous

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"**Righteous**" is a song by American rapper Juice WRLD. It was released on April 24, 2020, via Grade A Productions through exclusive licensing to Interscope Records, as the lead single for his first posthumous (third overall) album, *Legends Never Die*.

## About

The first posthumous single put out by his estate, “Righteous”, is an emotional anthem for Juice WRLD fans. Featuring Juice WRLD’s usual topics of drugs and glamour with fashion, Juice sings about his anxiety and his corruption when it comes to addiction.

The song leaked online in late 2019 but was later released by Juice’s team at Grade A on April 24, 2020, four months after Juice unexpectedly passed away following a seizure at Chicago’s Midway Airport. Even before the leak, Juice and his team had previewed the song several times on Instagram Live, with Juice teasing and titling the song in the summer of 2019. The day before the release, Juice WRLD’s girlfriend posted on Twitter explaining what the song meant to her.

## Meaning

Indeed one can argue to the contrary, as most of the lyrics actually center on a sense of helplessness and stress which it seems Juice can only alleviate via abusing drugs. In fact, in the first verse, he plainly acknowledges the inherent dangers in this habit – which for the record did indirectly end up taking his life.

But going back to the meaning of the title of the song, he also drops other scattered innuendos to his wealth. Yet overall “Righteous” is based on the themes that Juice WRLD built his career around. And that is the narrator being in the type of internal turmoil where he is compelled to resort to drugs as a form of relief. Overall, the track indicates that Juice has always wanted to do the right thing but he ends up surrounded by negative energy.

## Lyrics

[Intro]

I will (Will)

I will (I will)

I will

Oh-ooh (Oh-ooh)

Uh (Uh)

[Chorus]

All white Gucci suit, I'm feeling righteous, yeah

I know that the truth is hard to digest, yeah

Five or six pills in my right hand, yeah

Codeine runneth over on my nightstand

Takin' medicine to fix all of the damage

My anxiety the size of a planet (Yeah, ooh)

Holes in my skull, over time

My heart's over ice (Woah)

[Verse 1]

Over ice, I'm freezing

Beautiful eyes, deceiving

We may die this evening

Coughing, wheezing, bleeding

High, I'm an anxious soul

Blood moons are my eyes, stay low

Red and black, they glow

Under attack, in my soul

When it's my time, I'll know

Never seen a hell so cold

Yeah, we'll make it out, I'll know

We'll run right through the flames, let's go (Go)

[Chorus]

All white Gucci suit, I'm feeling righteous, yeah

I know that the truth is hard to digest, yeah

Five or six pills in my right hand, yeah

Codeine runneth over on my nightstand

Taking medicine to fix all of the damage

My anxiety the size of a planet (Yeah, ooh)

Holes in my skull, over time

My heart's over ice (Woah, uh)

[Verse 2]

I'm in too deep

Can't swim like me

We're drowning, so I will see

My demons ten feet, under me

Inhale, exhale, but I can't breathe

Too busy drinking codeine doin' high speeds

Crash, pour a four, sip it slow, make the time pass

Take a pill for the thrill, have a relapse

Devil in my head tryna run gym laps

I ain't tryna race, he don't even know me like that

[Chorus]

All white Gucci suit, I'm feeling righteous

I know that the truth is hard to digest

Five or six pills in my right hand

Codeine runneth over on my nightstand

Taking medicine to fix all of the damage

My anxiety the size of a planet (Yeah, ooh)

Holes in my skull, over time

My heart's over ice (Woah)