benny blanco (real name Benjamin Levin) and Juice WRLD (real name Jarad Higgins) are a duo best known for their hits “Roses,“ “Graduation,“ and Juice’s posthumous “Real Shit.“

The pair first collaborated on Juice’s May 2018 track “Black & White,“ and blanco touched on their relationship in after the release of “Real Shit“ on December 2, 2020, with a series of tweets expanding on the pair’s relationship:

my friend played me a song like 2 or 3 years ago… i looked at him and said it was one of the best songs i had ever heard… my friend didnt even know the artists name… said it was juice or something… i searched and searched on instagram until i came across juice’s page…

he had 9k followers at the time… i dmed him and said we had to work… he said he was coming to la in a week and we could go in then… i booked us a studio… he didnt even have a record deal…

Additionally, blanco furthered about their seemingly numerous unreleased collaborations:

labels were coming to the session all night trying to butter him up and offer him anything he wanted… he didn’t give a fuck… he just wanted to make music… we made like 6 songs the first night… one of them being “roses”…the first song we ever recorded tho was “real shit”