Post by Jason on Dec 8, 2019 13:48:11 GMT -5
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Chicago rapper Juice Wrld dead at 21 after suffering apparent seizure at Midway Airport, officials say
Juice Wrld, a young rapper from the Chicago area who recently signed with a major label, died Sunday morning after suffering a seizure at Midway Airport, authorities said.
The 21-year-old rapper, whose real name was Jarad Higgins, was taken to Christ Medical Center shortly after 2 a.m. and was pronounced dead there, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Police said they were conducting a death investigation. An autopsy will be performed later today or Monday.
Higgins signed a reported $3 million deal with Interscope in March of 2018 after his EP “Juice Wrld 999” racked up millions of streams on Soundcloud.
“It hasn’t really caught up to me yet. I haven’t really felt like ‘Oh my God, what just happened?’ ” he told the Tribune last year. “But I think it’s a good thing because when people get caught up, they can get lost — lost in the moment. That can ruin somebody.”
Blending elements of meandering, mumble-rap singing against drill-lite percussion and pop-punk melodies, Juice Wrld has captured the minds of the generation raised on both Warped Tour and Summer Jam — bridging the gap between urban and suburban youth experiences; an angst-riddled adolescence that feels just as romantically rejected and isolated as it wants to turn-up.
In just a two-year span, Juice WRLD landed three albums into the upper reaches of the album charts: Following his breakout single “All Girls Are the Same,” Higgins made his debut in 2018 with Goodbye & Good Riddance, which boasted the unexpected Hot 100 hit “Lucid Dreams.” The rapper followed that up with WRLD on Drugs, a collaborative mixtape with Future that peaked at Number 2 on the album charts.
His debut LP “Goodbye & Good Riddance” hit No. 7 on Billboard’s “Top 200” four weeks after its release. Higgins was also named Apple Music’s newest “Up Next” artist.
Higgins said he started sharing his music in 2015 after gaining support on his high school’s radio show.
“My mom didn’t want me to listen to that music,” he said. “I was a little kid, those lyrics aren’t made for kids’ ears. She’s more on the conservative side, but I completely agree with her. Future is one of my favorite artists and I was listening to him in sixth/seventh grade wanting to drink lean, like that’s crazy. Words have a lot of power. I was still developing as a person — mentally, physically, so those years were very crucial for who I am right now and that’s completely understandable.
“I talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through, and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other," he added. "I’m not worried about anyone getting the wrong idea or stereotyping what I’m doing. My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they’re not alone in going through the things that they go through.”
Higgins said he was focused on what he saw as his longevity as an artist.
“Life is a journey," he said. "There’s no thought process really, it’s just life. (The album) is a couple pages of that. The ball just naturally keeps rolling. Two of my biggest songs are about relationship issues, that’s kind of cool. But there’s a whole other side of me that people haven’t seen yet and I get to show them.”