Juice WRLD trivia: 41 facts about the rapper

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!

1. His real name is Jarad Anthony Higgins
2. He was born on December 2, 1998
3. He died on December 8, 2019
4. He was known professionally as Juice WRLD
5. Pronounced “Juice World”
6. He was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter
7. Born in Chicago, Illinois
8. He was best known for his hit singles “All Girls Are the Same” and “Lucid Dreams”
9. The songs helped him gain a recording contract with Lil Bibby’s Grade A Productions and Interscope Records
10. “All Girls Are the Same” and “Lucid Dreams” acted as singles for Juice WRLD’s debut studio album Goodbye & Good Riddance (2018)
11. The album became certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
12. The album enjoyed positive critical reception, and contained three other singles
13. These are “Armed and Dangerous”, “Lean wit Me” and “Wasted”
14. All of which charted on the Billboard Hot 100
15. After collaborating with Future on the mixtape Wrld on Drugs (2018), Juice Wrld released his second album, Death Race for Love, in 2019
16. It became his first number-one album on the Billboard 200
17. Jarad Higgins was born on December 2, 1998, in Chicago, Illinois
18. In 1999, he moved to Homewood, Illinois
19. He attended Homewood-Flossmoor High School
20. Higgins’ parents divorced when he was three years old
21. His father left, leaving his mother to raise him as a single mother alongside one older brother
22. Higgins’ mother was very religious and conservative, not letting Higgins listen to hip hop
23. 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
24. Introducing Higgins to artists such as Billy Idol, Blink-182, Black Sabbath, Fall Out Boy, Megadeth, and Panic! at the Disco
25. Higgins was a heavy drug user during his childhood and teens
26. He began drinking lean in sixth grade and using percocets and xanax in 2013
27. Higgins also smoked cigarettes, quitting in his last year of high school due to health issues
28. He first learned to play the piano at four years old
29. Having been inspired by his mother who later began paying for lessons
30. He latter learned how to play guitar and drums
31. Higgins also played trumpet for band class
32. In his sophomore year of high school, he started posting songs to his SoundCloud which he recorded on his cell phone
33. Around this time, Higgins began to take rapping more seriously
34. Higgins had a history of drug abuse and spoke openly about his experiences
35. In 2019, he was living in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Alexia
36. The two met around the same time as when Higgins’s music career was starting to launch
37. On December 8, 2019, Higgins suffered a seizure at Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois
38. According to the Chicago Police Department, Higgins was conscious and bleeding from the mouth when paramedics arrived
39. He was rushed to a nearby hospital
40. There he died at age 21
41. The cause of the seizure and his death are yet to be determined