Juice Wrld 1998-2019
Jarad Anthony Higgins (December 2, 1998 – December 8, 2019), known professionally as Juice Wrld (pronounced as "Juice World"), was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, he moved to Homewood, Illinois, and attended Homewood-Flossmoor High School. Higgins began to develop himself as an artist in his first year of high school. His first track, "Forever", was released on SoundCloud in 2015 under the name JuicetheKidd. Higgins recorded a majority of his first tracks on a cellphone, uploading them to SoundCloud in his sophomore year. His name changed from JuicetheKidd to Juice Wrld because it "represents taking over the world." Juice Wrld was best known for his hit singles "All Girls Are the Same" and "Lucid Dreams" which 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) which became certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album enjoyed positive critical reception, and contained three other singles: "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 which became his first number-one album on the Billboard 200. Higgins stated his musical influences as being genre-wide going from rock music to rap music include Chief Keef, Travis Scott, Kanye West and British rock singer Billy Idol. His other influences included Wu-Tang Clan, Fall Out Boy, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, 2Pac, Eminem, Kid Cudi and Escape the Fate. In 2019, Higgins was living in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Alexia.
On December 8, 2019, Higgins suffered a seizure at Chicago's Midway International Airport and was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at the age of 21. The cause of the seizure is currently unknown.