Juice WRLD

CTL-E-5363 · Person · musician · 1998–2019

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Jarad Anthony Higgins, known as Juice WRLD, was a rapper, singer and songwriter from the Chicago area who became the defining voice of emo rap's mainstream breakthrough before his death at twenty-one. Raised in Calumet Park and Homewood, he played piano, drums and guitar as a child, began freestyling in high school, and first recorded as JuiceTheKidd, taking his later name from the film Juice. His 2018 singles "All Girls Are the Same" and "Lucid Dreams" — the latter built on a Sting interpolation and eventually certified diamond — carried his debut album Goodbye & Good Riddance onto the charts, and his second album, Death Race for Love (2019), debuted at number one. His writing confronted heartbreak, anxiety and addiction with unusual directness, and posthumous releases including Legends Never Die have kept his catalog at the center of his generation's listening. He died on December 8, 2019, days after his twenty-first birthday; the Cook County Medical Examiner later ruled the death an accidental overdose. He is remembered with love by the fans — the 999 faithful — for whom his honesty was a lifeline.

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• Also known as: Jarad Anthony Higgins, JuiceTheKidd

Notes

Statistics: Born December 2, 1998, Chicago; died December 8, 2019, Oak Lawn, Illinois, aged 21 (AllMusic). Death Race for Love (2019) was his first Billboard 200 No. 1 album in his lifetime (AllMusic); "Lucid Dreams" peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100 and was later certified diamond (cross-checked). Cause of death ruled accidental oxycodone and codeine toxicity by the Cook County Medical Examiner, announced January 22, 2020 (NPR/AP). Influenced by Chicago drill artists including Lil Durk (AllMusic). · Curator's Judgment: DRAFT — DRAFT — Juice WRLD gets his flowers here in full: a Chicago kid who turned private pain into public shelter for millions of listeners, and whose melodic honesty permanently changed what a rap star could say out loud. The catalog remains; so does the gratitude. · Photo slot: CLEARED — Wikimedia Commons File:Juice WRLD - Les Ardentes 2019.jpg, Lexiou WesCudi, CC BY-SA 2.0, verified via Commons API 2026-10-15; direct URL https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Juice_WRLD_-_Les_Ardentes_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled; master in packet photos/ as juice-wrld.jpg.

Relationships

• NBA YoungBoy — collaborated with
  Juice WRLD and YoungBoy Never Broke Again collaborated on the 2019 single "Bandit."

Referenced by

• Ski Mask the Slump God — collaborated with → this record

Sources

• AllMusic, "Juice WRLD — Biography" (TiVo) — http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0003739508 (primary source)
• NPR (Vanessa Romo), "Juice WRLD Cause Of Death Was Accidental Overdose" — https://www.nprillinois.org/2020-01-22/juice-wrld-cause-of-death-was-accidental-overdose
• Pollstar News (Associated Press), "Coroner: Juice WRLD Died Of Accidental Drug Overdose" — https://news.pollstar.com/2020/01/22/coroner-juice-wrld-died-of-accidental-drug-overdose/

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