“Fine China” Is Juice WRLD’s Latest Song To Feature Lyrics About Killing Women

Future and Juice WRLD’s collaborative project WRLD ON DRUGS may be grabbing headlines as this week’s biggest rap release, but its lead single “Fine China” is earning attention for a different reason. The track is produced by SinGrinch, Psymun, and Wheezy, and finds Juice WRLD explicitly threatening to kill a woman if she leaves him. Unlike several other high-profile rappers, Juice WRLD has never been accused of violence against women in real life. However, these lyrics stand as the latest example of Juice WRLD seeming to depict it in his music:

It’s her body or nobody
I refuse to compromise
So if she leaves, I'ma kill her, oh, she’ll die
Did I say that out loud? I’m so crazy about mine

Juice WRLD delivered similar lyrics on at least two tracks from his debut album Goodbye & Good Riddance. On “Used To,” the rapper seems to threaten a woman’s life:

Wear your best dress, girl, ‘cause you gon’ die in it
Bet you regret the day that you lied in it

“Candles” also features lyrics about killing a woman:

Baby, do your worst
I’ve come to the conclusion you can’t kill me if I kill you first

Women and heartbreak are frequent topics in Juice WRLD’s music, and he often speaks about relationships in metaphorical terms. However, as Stereogum’s Tom Breihan recently pointed out, these type of lyrics reflect the longstanding criticism that emo music often treats women as toxic catalysts for heartbreak. Juice WRLD is heavily inspired by emo and pop punk bands of the 2000s, and his music reflects many of these same lyrical tropes.

Lyrics about violence against women (and violence in general) are not new to hip-hop. Most famously, Eminem rapped about killing his ex-wife Kim Mathers on the 2000 track “Kim.” More recently, both Playboi Carti and Lil Durk have drawn scrutiny for lyrics that seem to condone physical or sexual violence against women.

Genius reached out to a rep for Juice WRLD, who declined to comment on this story.

Listen to the song above and read all the lyrics to Future and Juice WRLD’s “Fine China” on Genius now.