Fighting Demons

On November 11, 2021, Grade A Productions, in conjunction with Juice Wrld's mother, Carmela Wallace, announced the album with the release date of December 10, 2021.[3] The album's lead single, "Already Dead", was released the following day, November 12, 2021,[4] the song peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.[5]

The second single, "Wandered to LA", a collaboration with Canadian singer Justin Bieber, was released on December 3, 2021,[6] the song peaked at number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100.[5]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	74/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	5/10[8]
HipHopDX	3.6/5[9]
NME	[10]
Rolling Stone	[11]

Fighting Demons was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on five reviews.[7]

A. D. Amorosi of Variety praised many of the guest artists on Fighting Demons, with Justin Bieber's verse on single "Wandered to LA" and Suga's verse on promotional single "Girl of My Dreams" being his two favourites. He mentioned that the album stands out over other post-mortem projects because, in comparison, there are "surprisingly (and happily) few features".[2] Writing for NME, Kyann-Sian Williams gave the project a rating of 4/5 stars citing that Fighting Demons "shows the other side of Juice WRLD, which was never explored enough while he was" alive and that the project manages to deepen his narrative with a level of care rarely seen on posthumous releases.[10] Reviewing the album for HipHopDX, Mackenzie Cummings-Grady stated, "Fighting Demons embodies Juice WRLD in that way: a flawed project with moments of brilliance that feels uncomfortable to listen to but isn't ashamed of its naked humanity. And in that aspect, it becomes a balancing act of the man and the artist, melding the two to create a project that's earnest and authentic – just like Juice WRLD".[9]

Rolling Stone critic Will Dukes said, "Fighting Demons, his second posthumous album is a tortured but overall grateful memento mori from a talented artist who left us all too soon".[11] In a lukewarm review, Clash's Robin Murray wrote, "Ultimately Fighting Demons works almost as a tribute record, gathering fragments of his undoubted genius. Whether it's a true Juice WRLD album, though, is another matter".[8]