The Party Never Ends (2024)

The Party Never Ends is the fifth studio album by the American rapper Juice Wrld. It was posthumously released through Grade A Productions and Interscope Records on November 29, 2024, nearly five years after his death in December 2019. The album contains guest appearances from Nicki Minaj, Benny Blanco, Eminem, the Kid Laroi, Offset, and Fall Out Boy. Various producers contributed to the album, including Blanco, Cashmere Cat, Happy Perez, Nick Mira, Boi-1da, Tommy Brown, Blake Slatkin, Charlie Handsome, Metro Boomin, Andrew Watt, Purps on the Beat, and Zaytoven. It was marketed as Juice WRLD’s final album until the announcement of The Outsiders coming soon from his manager Lil Bibby.

Release and promotion

In July 2021, Juice Wrld's manager, Lil Bibby, revealed the title of the album and shared what his plan with it would be. In February 2023, his estate announced that the album was in active development. After teasing the album's release, the lead single of the album, "Lace It", a collaboration with American rapper Eminem and American record producer Benny Blanco, was released on December 16, 2023. A two-track extended play, The Pre-Party, was released as a precursor to the album on September 9, 2024. The second and final single of the album, "AGATS2 (Insecure)", a collaboration with Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj, was released on November 15, 2024.

The album's cover art, which was designed by Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami, was revealed on November 21, 2024. Juice Wrld's estate collaborated with Epic Games to include a character skin of Juice Wrld in Fortnite Battle Royale. At the end of Chapter 2 Remix of Fortnite Battle Royale, a virtual concert was held in tribute to Juice Wrld on November 30, 2024.

On November 30, 2024, an expanded version of the album, titled The Party Never Ends 2.0, was released, replacing the album's original version on streaming services. It includes the additional song "Empty Out Your Pockets", placed between "Cuffed" and "KTM Drip" on the album's track listing.

A deluxe edition of the album, consisting of ten additional tracks that fans voted for, was expected to be released in early 2025, although it has been delayed several times for unknown reasons. In July 2026, it was reported that its release has been cancelled.

Critical reception

The Party Never Ends received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, who criticized the album for its unfinished sound, bland production, and poor curation of tracks. The album's release was viewed by many fans and critics as an attempt by the label to capitalize off of Juice Wrld's legacy, with fans noting that Juice Wrld had plenty of quality unreleased tracks that were inexplicably left off the album. Robin Murray of Clash wrote that the album lacked a cohesive identity and that the album's material remained "unfinished for a reason." Fred Thomas of AllMusic criticized the album for feeling like "the underheated remaining scraps" of his unreleased material. While he named tracks such as "AGATS2 (Insecure)" and the Kid Laroi's tribute song "Goodbye" as exceptions, he described collaborations such "Lace It" with Eminem as "awkward", with Juice Wrld's presence on the track minimized. He wrote that songs such as "Best Friend" with Fall Out Boy continued this trend, describing it as one of several "placeholder" tracks and concluding that the album overall lacked songs that approach the quality of Juice Wrld's best work.