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- Goodbye & Good Riddance (2018)
- Death Race for Love (2019)
- Legends Never Die (2020)
- Fighting Demons (2021)
- The Party Never Ends (2024)
+ Jarad Anthony Higgins, aka Juice WRLD was born on December 2, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was one of the greatest American rappers in the history and was known mainly for his emo rap songs.
+ He began his career in 2015 under the name JuicetheKidd. At the time he was only in high school, but he already demonstrated to be an excelent freestyler and to have a great ability to write songs. He became known worldwide through SoundCloud in 2017 to 2018, now as Juice WRLD, for what are his biggest hits til this day: "Lucid Dreams" and "All Girls Are The Same", which both debuted in the top 1 and 2 of the Billboard Hot 100. In the midst of his great success, he signed his first contract with the record label Grade A and released his first album called Goodbye & Good Riddance, which included the two great hits mentioned, in addition to other songs such as: "Lean wit Me", "Wasted", and "Armed & Dangerous". Due to too many hits made, this album became a classic in the world of rap. After so much success in a such short time, he released his second album called Death Race for Love, in 2019. It contained the hit single "Robbery" and became Higgins' first number one debut on the US Billboard 200.
+ Unfortunately, on December 8, 2019, he suffered a seizure at Chicago Midway Airport, managed to be taken to the hospital but did not survived. After his death, two posthumous albums were released, the first, Legends Never Die in 2020, which became the most successful posthumous debut and for the most U.S top ten entries from one album, and Fighting Demons, that was released in 2021, alongside the documentary film Juice Wrld: Into the Abyss, which contained the US top 20 single "Already Dead".
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Jarad grew up in the South Suburbs of Chicago, in Calumet Park. He then moved to Homewood, where he attended Homewood-Flossmoor High School and graduated in 2017.
+ His parents divorced when he was three years old, and his father left, leaving his mother to raise him alone. At four, he learned to play piano, inspired by his mother. Then he took up the guitar and drums while also playing the turumpet for band class. As Jarad's mother was very religious, she prohibeted him to listen to hip hop. In the other hand, he was allowed to listen to rock and pop music, which would become one of his most type songs geners besides rap.
+ As he wasn't allowed to listen to rap music at home, he started to listen with his friends outside, then to realise his ability in freestyling. Back that time, he was also a heavy drug user. In his musics, he said that started doing Percocet, Lean and Xanax already in 2013. In his sophomore year of high school, he began posting songs to SoundCloud, which he recorded on his smartphone. Jarad began to take rapping more seriously.
+ His first track, "Forever", was released on SoundCloud in 2015 under the name JuicetheKidd. He was in his first year of high school and recorded most of his tracks on a cellphone. Not too much time after, he changed his name to Juice WRLD, inspired by the rapper Tupac Shakur's role in the film Juice. Jarad latter revealed that his stage name came from "taking over the world".
+ In 2017, Nick Mira, an young talented producer, was became to know Juice and start to produce him beats and his new songs. "Too Much Cash" was the first track of them togeter. Higgins also revealed after that back in that time he worked in a factory to raise some money, but was fired within two weeks, in his words "it was my first and last job".
In June 15, 2017, Juice debut his full-length EP, 9 9 9, with the song "Lucid Dreams" breaking out and growing his following. After, mid-2017, he received attention from Chicago's artists G Herbo and Lil Bibby.
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In December 2017, Jarad released the three-song EP Nothings Different Covered by the hip-hop blog Lyrical Lemonade, with Higgins' track "All Girls Are the Same" gaining popularity. In February 2018, Cole Bennett directed an music video for this track. After the video's release, Interscope Records signed Jarad for $3 million.
+ "All Girls Are The Same" and "Lucid Dreams" were first entries of Jarad on any Billboard chart, debuting on the Hot 100 at numbers 92 and 74, respectively. On May 4, 2018, "Lucid Dreams" was officially released as a single and accompanied by a Cole Bennett-directed music video. It peaked at number two on the Hot 100 and quickly became one of the most streamed songs of 2018. "Lean Wit Me" was released on May 22, and peaked at number 68 on the Hot 100. After all these success, he released his album called Goodbye & Good Riddance. Fun fact is that he created the album after a breakup, and that's why the album and the name is related to. Actually the order of the songs in the album pass through the breakup, recovering and overcoming it. He beacame a rising star in the US.
+ After Lil Peep and XXXTentacion death's, two of the hughest emo rap artists, he realesed the song "Legends", which debuted at 65 on the Hot 100. In the song, he talked about how this young generation is dying early and, for a curious fact, in his lyrics "we ain't making it past 21", unfortunately Juice died 6 days after turning 21. In July 10, 2018, Juice first single featuring with Lil Uzi Vert on "Wasted" debuted at number 68 on the Hot 100.
+ Juice featured Travis Scott's song "No Bystanders" in his album, Astroworld. The song peaked at number 31 on the Billboard hot 100.
+ On October 15, the music video for the song "Armed and Dangerous" was released followed by the lead single, "Fine China", from the collaborative mixtape, Wrld on Drugs with Future, released on October 19, 2018. In this album, he revealed that Future was one of his biggest influences on doing Lean. Future regrets everytime for making not only him but millions on doing drugs. The song the Juice mentioned was "Dirty Sprite".
+ He also colaborated in the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its soundtrack, with the song "Hide", released on December 14, 2018. Higgins' second studio album, Death Race for Love, was released on March 8, 2019, preceded by the singles "Robbery" and "Hear Me Calling", the album topped the Billboard 200 chart. Juice released the music video for the song "Fast" from Death Race for Love on April 9.
+ His last song was released in early October, "Bandit" featuring NBA YoungBoy Never Broke Again, before his death that December. It peaked at number ten on the Hot 100.
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+ Higgins' first posthumous appearance was on Eminem's track "Godzilla", released on January 17, 2020, that peaked at number three on the Hot 100. Juice was also featured on G Herbo's "PTSD", released on February 28. Higgins' first posthumous single, "Righteous", was released on April 24 and an accompanying music video featuring footage of Higgins was uploaded to his YouTube channel. On May 29, the song "Tell Me U Luv Me" featuring Trippie Redd was released alongside a music video directed by Cole Bennett. "Go", Higgins' collaboration with Australian rapper the Kid Laroi (whom Higgins mentored), was released on June 12.
+ On July 6, it was announced that the title of Higgins' first posthumous album had been changed to Legends Never Die. Between the album's announcement and its release, two single collaborations were released; "Life's a Mess" featuring Halsey and "Come & Go" featuring Marshmello. The album was released on July 10, with 21 songs and four singles that Higgins' estate claims "best represents the music Juice was in the process of creating". The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.
+ Five of its songs reached the top 10 of the Hot 100 on the week ending July 25: "Come & Go", "Wishing Well", "Conversations", "Life's a Mess", and "Hate the Other Side", which reached number two, five, seven, nine, and ten, respectively. In 2020, Higgins was streamed on Spotify over 5.9 billion times, making him the fourth most streamed artist in the world.
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+ On January 15, 2021, Higgins' estate released "Bad Boy" featuring Young Thug, which was accompanied by a Cole Bennett-directed music video shot entirely before Higgins' death; this marks the final collaboration between the artist and director before the former's death. On August 20, "Matt Hardy 999", a song featuring Higgins from Trippie Redd's album Trip at Knight, was released.
+ On November 11, Higgins' estate announced that his second posthumous album, Fighting Demons, a tie-in for the documentary film Juice Wrld: Into the Abyss, would be released on December 10. The album had a darker aspect in every song, showing the lowest moments in Juice's life.The album was accompanied by three singles: "Already Dead", "Wandered to LA" featuring Justin Bieber, and "Girl of My Dreams" featuring Suga of BTS.
+ On December 16, Juice Wrld: Into the Abyss was released on HBO Max as a part of the Music Box series. The film spotlights Higgins' struggles with mental health and substance abuse through the use of archival footage, in addition to interviews with Higgins' friends, family, and associates. Also shows many unreleased songs through the documentary. Juice allegedly has more than 3000 songs in the vault, in his words. That's why his team suffers from leaks all the time.
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+ In early 2022, an extended version of "Go Hard", titled "Go Hard 2.0" was added to the tracklist of Fighting Demons, in addition to two previously unreleased songs, "Cigarettes" and "Sometimes". Both debuted at number 43 and 57 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. On August 26, Higgins was featured on the track "Juice Wrld Did" from DJ Khaled's album God Did.
+ On October 28, Higgins' estate released the song "In My Head". In May 18, 2023 the Goodbye & Good Riddance (5 Year Anniversary Edition) was released. This special release includes two new tracks “Glo'd Up” and “No Good".
+ In 16 December, 2023 "Lace It" featuring Eminem was released, which gonna be the first single of The Party Never Ends album. Grade A already said that the album is going to be released soon, so it's expected to officialy come out in 2024.
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+ Higgins had a history of drug abuse that began at an early age, and he spoke openly about his experiences. His mother claimed that he was also dealing with anxiety and depression on top of his battle with drug addiction. Higgins had agreed to attend drug rehabilitation weeks prior to his death.
+ He was living in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Ally Lotti, at the time of his death.
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+ On December 8, 2019, Juice was aboard his jet in Los Angeles to Midway Airport in Chicago. Law enforcement officers were waiting for the jet to arrive, having been notified by federal agents, while the flight was en route, that they suspected there were guns and drugs on the plane. Law enforcement officials later revealed that they found 70 lb (32 kg) of marijuana on the aircraft and said several members of Higgins' management team aboard the flight told them that Higgins had taken "several unknown pills", including allegedly swallowing multiple Percocet pills to hide them while police were on board the plane searching the luggage.
+ Til this day, too many people that were in that jet talked about what happened, but this statement was never proven right. Chris Long, Juice's cameraman, talked about that night and said "he was addicted but not dumb to take pills in a attempt of hiding the drugs". There were too many drugs, it was impossible to hide. In fact, Chris said Juice was calm and didn't appear anytime to care about being arrested.
+ Continuing, suddenly, Higgin then began convulsing and seizing, after which two doses of the emergency medication naloxone were administered as an opioid overdose was suspected. Chicago PD were told a man (Higgins) had suffered a medical emergency at around 2:00 local time (8:00 GMT). Higgins was transported to the nearby Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead around at 3:15 a.m. On January 22, 2020, the Cook County Medical Examiner stated that Higgins died as a result of toxic levels of oxycodone and codeine present in his system.
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