Juice WRLD was a famous rapper, singer and songwriter. He died on December 8th, 2019.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about his life and career!
- His real name is Jarad Anthony Higgins
- He was born on December 2, 1998
- He died on December 8, 2019
- He was known professionally as Juice WRLD
- Pronounced “Juice World”
- He was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter
- Born in Chicago, Illinois
- He was best known for his hit singles “All Girls Are the Same” and “Lucid Dreams”
- The songs helped him gain a recording contract with Lil Bibby’s Grade A Productions and Interscope Records
- “All Girls Are the Same” and “Lucid Dreams” acted as singles for Juice WRLD’s debut studio album Goodbye & Good Riddance (2018)
- The album became certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
- The album enjoyed positive critical reception, and contained three other singles
- These are “Armed and Dangerous”, “Lean wit Me” and “Wasted”
- All of which charted on the Billboard Hot 100
- After collaborating with Future on the mixtape Wrld on Drugs (2018), Juice Wrld released his second album, Death Race for Love, in 2019
- It became his first number-one album on the Billboard 200
- Jarad Higgins was born on December 2, 1998, in Chicago, Illinois
- In 1999, he moved to Homewood, Illinois
- He attended Homewood-Flossmoor High School
- Higgins’ parents divorced when he was three years old
- His father left, leaving his mother to raise him as a single mother alongside one older brother
- Higgins’ mother was very religious and conservative, not letting Higgins listen to hip hop
- Though allowing Higgins to listen to rock and pop music he found on video games such as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and Guitar Hero
- Introducing Higgins to artists such as Billy Idol, Blink-182, Black Sabbath, Fall Out Boy, Megadeth, and Panic! at the Disco
- Higgins was a heavy drug user during his childhood and teens
- He began drinking lean in sixth grade and using percocets and xanax in 2013
- Higgins also smoked cigarettes, quitting in his last year of high school due to health issues
- He first learned to play the piano at four years old
- Having been inspired by his mother who later began paying for lessons
- He latter learned how to play guitar and drums
- Higgins also played trumpet for band class
- In his sophomore year of high school, he started posting songs to his SoundCloud which he recorded on his cell phone
- Around this time, Higgins began to take rapping more seriously
- Higgins had a history of drug abuse and spoke openly about his experiences
- In 2019, he was living in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Alexia
- The two met around the same time as when Higgins’s music career was starting to launch
- On December 8, 2019, Higgins suffered a seizure at Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois
- According to the Chicago Police Department, Higgins was conscious and bleeding from the mouth when paramedics arrived
- He was rushed to a nearby hospital
- There he died at age 21
- The cause of the seizure and his death are yet to be determined
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