- ♪ You want me dead ♪
- A little morbid. - ♪ I've been myself
since birth, [bleep] ♪ - Oh, wait a minute.
Hold it back, hold it back. ♪ (ragtime intro) ♪ - ♪ I still see your shadows
in my room ♪ ♪ Can't take back the love
that I gave you ♪ - Oh, he's cute. - ♪ ...why I love
and I hate you ♪ ♪ And I cannot change you... ♪ - I like his lyrics already. - ♪ Easier said than done ♪
♪ I thought you were the one ♪ - Well, that's an interesting effect. - Where's his body?
Ooh, that's weird. - ♪ I won't let you forget me ♪ ♪ You left me falling... ♪
- Oh, wow. - ♪ ...landing inside my grave ♪ ♪ I know that you want me dead ♪ - A little morbid. - ♪ I take prescriptions... ♪
- I like the lyrics. - I can understand the lyrics, so that makes it
more enjoyable for me. - ♪ I have these lucid dreams ♪
♪ Where I can't move a thing ♪ - I just love the graphics
and the video. - I mean, his voice is good. - ♪ And I cannot change you,
so I must replace you, oh ♪ ♪ Easier said than done ♪ - That's kind of sad.
I was listening for a message, and I found myself very depressed. - The artistic look, the things
that when you first started, like he's in the floor,
his head coming up out of the floor, you know, it's different. - ♪ I admit it,
another ho got me finished ♪ ♪ Broke my heart ♪
♪ Oh no, you didn't ♪ - So, if a girl breaks his heart,
she's automatically a ho? - Boy, if I was a young person
listening to this music, I wouldn't be encouraged to do anything. - ♪ She'll be gone by tomorrow ♪
♪ Who am I kidding? ♪ ♪ All this jealousy and agony... ♪
- Oh my god. He is insecure. - ♪ All girls are the same ♪
- Hmm. - Kind of like a long time ago
Chris Brown for some reason. I don't know why he reminds me
of him a little bit. - Yeah, I like these effects. - Wow. - ♪ Fuck givin',
I'ma take not borrow ♪ - But you're young.
You're gonna have a lot of other chances, young man.
Some of the rap is sort of so in your face
and so, you know, aggressive, that this is nice for a change. - He's a very creative artist.
I mean, his graphics are done well. - He's got this clear lyric format
like Drake, easy to follow and understand. - (FBE) So, these next two songs
don't have music videos. It's just audio,
but we still have the lyrics up on the screen so you can follow along.
- Oh, okay! - ♪ Girl, you know
I'm far from perfect ♪ ♪ I won't lead you on ♪ ♪ But tonight is feeling perfect ♪
♪ It's your favorite song ♪ ♪ I know that mood right ♪ - This one reminds me
of Drake a little. - ♪ Dance in the moonlight ♪
- Well, we all like the idea of dancing in the moonlight.
That's romantic. - ♪ Dance in the moonlight, oh ♪
- Okay, I memorized the lyrics. - Oh, he probably got another girl. - ♪ It's something 'bout that dress,
the way it fit you ♪ ♪ I don't wanna tell you
to take it off ♪ ♪ But baby take it off ♪
- Mediocre lyrics compared to the prior. - ♪ I've been myself
since birth, [bleep] ♪ - Oh, wait a minute.
Hold it back, hold it back. - ♪ She say that I'm pretty ♪ - It's a certain sameness to it all.
There isn't enough difference. - ♪ ...too deep ♪
♪ I'm feelin' like a surgeon ♪ ♪ Girl, you know
I'm far from perfect ♪ - He's just going on
and on and on. I don't see a hook. - I don't see that much different
from so many thousands of other songs. - He probably met another girl.
He's young. They fall in and out of love. - (FBE) This last song, "Legend,"
was written as a tribute song to rappers XXXTentacion
and Lil Peep, who both died recently very young,
Lil Peep at just 21 from an overdose and XXXTentacion at 20
from a shooting. - Right, I think I heard
about that on the news. - Somebody snuffed him out
before he could grow and mature and be who he is going to be.
It makes me angry. - ♪ I usually have an answer
to the question ♪ ♪ But this I'm gon' be quiet,
this time ♪ ♪ Ain't nothing like the feeling
of uncertainty ♪ ♪ The eeriness of silence ♪
- That's another sad song. - ♪ This time,
it was so unexpected ♪ ♪ Last time, it was the drugs
he was lacing ♪ ♪ All legends fall
in the making ♪ - Yeah, a lot
of very successful people have died young. - ♪ What's the 27 Clu-u-u-ub? ♪ ♪ We ain't making it past 21 ♪
- Wow. So sad. - ♪ So I always
gotta keep a gun ♪ - There's too much violence out there. - ♪ That's the world
we live in now ♪ - This has more merit to me
than the last two. - ♪ 'Cause all the legends
seem to die out ♪ - It's the price of that fame. - ♪ I'm so confused ♪ - We're hearing a little more
of what his voice can do in this one. He does have a great voice. - ♪ The cruel, cold world... ♪
- Cruel, cold world. He doesn't know the half of it yet. - ♪ The end of the world ♪
♪ Is it coming soon? ♪ - Okay, this is a little depressing. - The video and the song themselves
are sort of mediocre. It's the lyrics
that just pound away at you. - (FBE) So, that was rapper Juice WRLD. - Juice WRLD?
Is he into health food? - I love it.
It's different. It's creative. - (FBE) He's only 19 years old.
- Really? - Wow. - (FBE) And started making music
in 2015 while still in high school. It paid off quickly as he signed
to a major label in March, a deal that is reportedly worth
more than $3 million. - Stop it.
- It does seem like it's coming from a real
young person's perspective, where everything
is so immediately tragic. - (FBE) From what you saw and heard,
is there anything special that stands out about his music,
rapping style, or visuals that would be worth
a multi-million-dollar record deal? - I don't think so. - The only thing that I'll give them
are the words, the sentence structure,
and the story behind this last video. There is a story behind that. - He has a good voice.
He is a sing-rapper rather than a rapper-rapper,
because he does sing his lyrics. - I really understood
what he was saying. It wasn't a whole lot of swearing. - What I really like is
he doesn't use derogatory language. A lot of these young kids
look up to all these stars, right? So, keep it clean.
And he's doing a good job. - (FBE) Juice WRLD's mother
is a devout Christian who banned all rap music
from her home. - Okay, don't blame her. - (FBE) And the story is
Juice WRLD's cousins introduced him to rap music.
But since he was unable to listen to rap songs at home,
he would instead recite the lyrics and often make up his own lyrics when he failed
to remember the original words, a skill that helped him
when he began writing his own material.
- Interesting. - (FBE) Growing up,
were you ever banned from listening to certain genres
of music or artists? - No, because, as you know,
I'm an elder. We didn't have all this hip hop. - No, I wasn't.
I grew up in the '30s and '40s, so the pop music
was entirely different. - First name that I can think of
is Elvis Presley. That was devil's music back then.
I had to sneak and watch him. - I don't know if I was ever banned
from listening, because remember, we didn't have all the media. To try and keep something
from your kids is extremely difficult now. - (FBE) So, some critics point out
that Juice WRLD's success comes from the fact that his rapping style
is genre bending, combining rap with emotional lyrics
that's reminiscent of emo rock music that was popular in the early 2000s,
characterized by emotional and personal lyrics
often dealing with failed romances. - Right, well, Kendrick Lamar
is kind of like that, isn't he? - (FBE) As an elder,
what are your thoughts on young audiences
embracing these sad lyrics in what's normally seen
as an aggressive genre, and how does it compare
with what the youth were listening to
when you were growing up? - I don't have a problem
with them listening to these sad lyrics
as long as it doesn't talk about, you know, doing drugs
or taking their life. - If you keep on putting that
in a young person's head, like, feel depressed
because someone left you, it's, like, brainwashing them. - Sad, because if they're not careful,
they can get caught up in that kind of music,
and so shall their life be. - The music that I listened to
when I was growing up, there was a message. And you don't hear too much
of that nowadays. - (FBE) Well, we've covered
a wide variety of rappers with the elders.
Where does Juice WRLD rank for you from everything
you've seen here on the show or listened to on your own? - Maybe not really bottom-bottom,
but maybe the second to the bottom. I want to be happy. - I don't see him moving out
and venturing out in any other forms of music,
and that's a shame. - I would say he ranks pretty high.
He tells it well. He sings well.
And he enunciates. - I think the guy's creative.
He could sustain quite a while. - He's on an upward spiral. That's how I rank him.
He's moving up. - I'm gonna check his music out,
'cause he'll probably become one of my favorites.
I could put that in my car in a CD and just drive. - He's got to look
at who he's competing with. Make sure that you're able to compete. And I think
if he's with a major label, he's got a team now
that can help him do that. - Thanks for watching this episode
of Elders React. Shoutout to Layla Slays. - Don't be too sad.
Make sure you subscribe. - Shoutout to awesomegirl 88. - Hi, guys. JC here,
producer here at FBE. Thanks so much for watching
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