Juice WRLD Dead At 21
• UPDATED: Interscope’s talented up-and-coming hip-hop star Juice WRLD, who just turned 21 last Monday, died early Sunday morning after suffering a seizure in Chicago’s Midway airport. The news was first broken by TMZ, which reports that Juice, a Chicago native whose real name Jarad Anthony Higgins,had just landed at Midway from California and was reportedly felled by a severe seizure while walking through the airport. Law enforcement sources say he was bleeding from the mouth when paramedics got on scene. Reports say Juice was still conscious when he was rushed to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, but was pronounced dead a short time later. The cause of death is unclear at this time.
According to Variety, Juice was signed to Interscope Records in early 2018 and released his debut album, Goodbye & Good Riddance, almost immediately after, which was certified platinum before the end of the year, and launched the single, “All Girls Are the Same,” followed by “Lucid Dreams,” which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
He later released a memoriam EP dedicated to late fellow SoundCloud rappers XXXTentacion and Lil Peep; a collaborative album with Future, Wrld on Drugs, which reached No. 2 in October; and an original song on the soundtrack for the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In the spring of 2019 Juice released his second album, Death Race for Love, which went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. He also toured Europe this year with Nicki Minaj on a co-headlining bill.
A statement posted to Interscope’s Instagram account reads, “Juice made a profound impact on the world in such a short period of time. He was a gentle soul, whose creativity knew no bounds, an exceptional human being and artist who loved and cared for his fans above everything else. To lose someone so kind and so close to our hearts is devastating. Our thoughts are with Juice’s family and friends, everyone at his label Grade A, and his millions of fans around the world.”
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