Juice Wrld was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He was a leading figure in the emo rap and SoundCloud rap genres which garnered mainstream attention during the mid-late 2010s.
JuiceWrld worked with artists like Lil Bibby, G Herbo, Lil Yatchy, and aLil Uzi Vert on their 1999 World Domination Tour, He is among the most gifted players in this game.
He has cited Chief Keef and Kanye West as two of his biggest musical influences, which is really no surprise given that the young artists grew up in the southern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, but Juice wrld's musical tastes extend well beyond the Chicago area.
But before all these, before releasing tracks like "lean with me," "wasted," "moonlight," and "all girls are the same," before a single, "lucid dreams," would get over 35 million, he was just like any other kid who dreamed to make it big.
He's been listening to a variety of musical styles since he was in middle school, from pop to hardcore and even emo. Juice Wrld claims that it was all done to win over a girl while he was in the fifth grade. She may have been the first, but there is no doubt that she wouldn't be the last because many girls have influenced his music.
Without further ado, let's get into the fascinating history of Juice Wrld before he became famous.
In the Windy City of Chicago, Illinois, on December 2nd, 1998, Juice Wrld was born as Jarad Anthony Higgins. His parents did divorce quite early in his infancy; he occasionally visited his father, but it was his mother who raised him and his brother by herself.
Jarad moved around a lot as a child, eventually settling in the city of Homewood, Illinois, where he attended Homewood Philosopher High School after leaving the suburb of Calumet Park.
Moving around, in Jarad's opinion, made it easier for him to adjust to other surroundings, and because Juice World was such a gregarious and outgoing guy, he never had any trouble establishing new friends everywhere he went.
Jared practically taught himself to play the piano, guitar, and drums when he was a child. He fell in love with an emo girl in the fifth grade, which ultimately influenced his musical preferences. In an effort to impress her, he started to listen to the music she liked. Panic! At The Disco, Black Sabbath, Fall Out Boy, Billy Idol, Paramore, Black Veil Brides, Senses Fail, and Bullet For My Valentine were a few of the bands that made this list.
While his brother and cousin introduced him to artists like Gigi, Gucci Mane, Big Sean, and Lil Wayne, Juice's largest musical influence and favorite rapper was fellow Chicago local, Chief Keef. Jarad was also investigating the work of numerous hip-hop artists at the same time and he also claims that his favorite album is from another notable Chicago rapper, Kanye's "808s & Heartbreak".
He's also a big fan of Lil Durk and several other Chicago artists. Jarad has also claimed that he will listen to Eminem, Kid Cudi, Travis Scott, Odd, Future, Foo Fighters and Ozzy Osbourne.
According to him, he went through anything, from the Beatles to like Skrillex. Jarad's wide range of tastes extend beyond his favorite genres of music. You might be surprised to hear that Jared is the outdoorsy type; he loves nature, he also has a thing for 80s movies, but his favorite being William Friedkin's "To live and die in L.A".
Jarad has never minded being different and that's the vibe he's projected his entire life even when it comes to his drug habits. And while his peers were smoking weed he was taking xanax and percocets. He claims that at the time, these drugs were not considered cool. However, Jarad decided to quit around the time the drugs started getting shadow.
Jarad would usually freestyle with his friends and by the sixth or seventh grade, he was writing his own lyrics and spinning Grimes at lunchtime. As a high school freshman, he was encouraged by his friends to take rap seriously and he made the decision to pursue a career as a rapper.
Now Jarad's rap name was inspired by one of the greats as he describes it. He stated he used to have a juice cut like Tupac from the movie "Juice", that was also about the time he started rapping for real and he was just thinking about names and chose to go by Juice since he got a juice cut.
He felt it was just cheesy enough to work and didn't even know how he came up with the "wrld" in his name. But before he was known as Juice Wrld, he went by the stage name Juice the kid, and it was under that name that he posted his debut song, "Forever," and the first few tracks on Soundcloud in 2015.
Juice continued to record and release music throughout high school because he wasn't particularly interested in attending college. His perseverance would actually take some time to pay off and he found himself working at a factory.
But he soon came to the conclusion that this was not the kind of world he wanted to live in, and eventually he was let go. Juice understood at this point that he would have to put in a lot of effort to succeed as a rapper. He complained that the work was absolutely awful and that he detested 9:00- 5:00.
When one of juice's videos reached 10,000 views during his senior year of high school, he finally felt successful. He started working with the producer Nick Mira and joined the collective and the two collaborated to produce the song "too much cash".
"Lucid dreams," Juice's debut top-charting single, has received over 87 million Soundcloud plays as of this writing. Both "idiot" and "Lucid Dream" reached their highest points on the Billboard Hot 100 at number three and four, respectively.
Additionally, the hip-hop channel on satellite radio only plays Juice. At a time, Juice Wrd was invited to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live with the song "lucid dreams".
The official music video for "lucid dreams" which was directed by Cole Bennett has already racked up 91 million views since its release in May of 2018.This was only the beginning of the creative partnership between juice and Cole.
Juices' "999" mixtape featured the song "Lucid Dreams" in June 2017. He claims that his mother was upset by the title because she believed it to be a reference to the Satanic number 666. According to him, it actually was, buh in his opinion, he wanted to take the hell he was passing through and turn it upside down.
In December 2017, Juice issued the three-song "nothing's different" EP. Lyrical Lemonade and a number of other hip-hop blogs featured it.
Juice wrld's video for "all girls are the same," which was also directed by Cole Bennett, was released two months later. There would be more than 56 million views of the video. The song has received over 61 million plays on Soundcloud and has peaked in both Canada and on the Billboard Hot 100. Pitchfork named the song one of the best pieces of new music.
By the end of 2017, remix breaker companies were scurrying to sign Juice Wrld. Juice signed a three million dollar deal with Interscope Records, according to a March 13 billboard report, and soon after being signed, he spoke of his newfound success.
On May 23, 2018, Interscope released Juice Wrld's first studio album, "Goodbye & Good riddance," which includes both of his huge singles, "Lucid dreams" and "all girls are the same," as well as the singles "Lean With Me" and "wasted," which feature Lil uzi Vert.
Both of these have amassed millions of listeners, earned a spot on Soundcloud, and peaked at position 15 on the US Billboard 200 before moving up to position 6 in the third week after release.
Juice has since returned to the studio, working sometimes 12-hour recording sessions, and is upbeat about the future. "I'm here now, it's time to show out," he said.
I was personally looking forward to seeing him show out, but on December 8, 2019, he passed away due to toxic levels of oxycodone and codeine in his body.
It happened that Juice was traveling on a private Gulfstream jet between Midway International Airport in Chicago and Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles and federal agents had informed law enforcement while the plane was in flight that they believed there might be weapons and drugs on board, so they were waiting for the jet to arrive.
Law enforcement officials later disclosed that they discovered 70 lb (32 kg) of marijuana on the aircraft and that several members of Juice's management team aboard the flight told them that Juice had taken "several unknown pills," including allegedly swallowing multiple Percocet pills to hide them while law enforcement was on board the aircraft searching the luggage.
Juice then started shaking and having seizures, at which point two doses of the life-saving drug Narcan were given because it was thought that she may have overdosed on opioids. After being taken to the close-by Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Juice Wrld was declared dead.
More of his songs have been released even after his passing, including his final album, "Legends Never Die," which came out in July 2020. The album was dedicated to Lil Peep, who overdosed in late 2017 at the age of 21, and XXXTentacion, who was killed in the middle of 2018 at the age of 20.
In one of the tracks, Juice raps "What's the 27 Club? We ain't making it past 21". Fans and media outlets consequently remarked that he had foretold his own demise because he had passed away just a few days after turning twenty-one.
His second posthumous album, "Fighting Demons," was released in March 2022. Juice WRLD's dedication to his craft while he was alive is primarily responsible for his continued ability to release songs years after his passing. The rapper was infamous for working with other rap stars and continuously recording hundreds of songs—a total of roughly 3,000—that were never released.
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