Juice Wrld

Jarad Anthony Higgins was born on December 2, 1998, in Chicago, Illinois. and graduated from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 2017. His parents divorced when he was three years old. He grew up with his mother; Carmella Wallace, and older brother in a single-parent home. Higgins's father died in June 2019. Higgins's mother was very religious and conservative; she did not let him listen to hip-hop. He was allowed to listen to rock and pop music; he was introduced to artists including Billy Idol, Blink-182, Black Sabbath, Fall Out Boy, Megadeth, and Panic! at the Disco through video games like ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Guitar Hero''. Higgins was a heavy drug user during his childhood and teens. He drank lean for the first time in the sixth grade, and began using Percocet and Xanax in 2013. He smoked cigarettes before quitting during his last year of high school because of health issues. He learned to play the piano at four years old, having been inspired by his mother who later began paying for his lessons. He then took up the guitar and drums while playing the trumpet for band class. Around that time, Higgins began to take rapping more seriously. == Career ==

2015–2017: Beginnings, record deal, and early projects Higgins developed 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 most of his first tracks on a cellphone, uploading them to SoundCloud in his sophomore year. While releasing projects and songs on SoundCloud, Higgins worked in a factory but was dissatisfied with the job; he was fired within two weeks. After joining the internet collective Internet Money, Higgins released his debut full-length EP, 9 9 9, on June 15, 2017, with the song "Lucid Dreams" breaking out and growing his following. In mid-2017, he received attention from artists such as Waka Flocka Flame and Southside, as well as fellow Chicago artists G Herbo and Lil Bibby. He subsequently signed with Lil Bibby's co-owned record label, Grade A Productions. 2017–2018: Goodbye & Good Riddance and WRLD Domination Tour in July 2018 In December 2017, Higgins released the three-song EP Nothings Different. The project was covered by the hip-hop blog Lyrical Lemonade, with Higgins's track "All Girls Are the Same" gaining popularity through the blog post. An accompanying Cole Bennett-directed music video was released in February 2018. and a remix featuring Lil Yachty was previewed but never officially released. "All Girls Are the Same" was critically acclaimed, receiving a Best New Music designation from Pitchfork. It was released as a single in April. "All Girls Are the Same" and "Lucid Dreams" were Higgins's first entries 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, similarly to "All Girls Are the Same". It peaked at number two on the Hot 100 and quickly became one of the most streamed songs of 2018; Higgins's debut full-length album, Goodbye & Good Riddance, which included his three previous singles, released the following day. This album gained him much recognition and praise, along with cementing him as a rising star in the US. On June 19, he released a two-song EP titled Too Soon.. in remembrance of, and dedicated to, deceased rappers Lil Peep and XXXTentacion. Lil Peep died of an overdose in 2017 and XXXTentacion was murdered on June 18, 2018, one day before the project was released. Higgins said that he and XXXTentacion were friends and that they would have FaceTime calls together, revealing that their last conversation was about meeting up. The cover of the Too Soon.. EP is a screenshot of a conversation between Higgins and XXXTentacion. The song "Legends" from the EP debuted at number 65 on the Hot 100 and peaked at number 29 over a year later following Higgins's death. "Wasted" (featuring Lil Uzi Vert) was released on July 10; it was Higgins's first single featuring a collaboration and the only song on Goodbye & Good Riddance with a featured guest. It debuted at number 68 on the Hot 100 and peaked at 67 in its second week on the chart. On July 11, Higgins announced that he was working on his next album. On July 20, Higgins announced his first tour, WRLD Domination, with additional acts YBN Cordae and Lil Mosey. On July 25, Higgins's producer Danny Wolf released the official version of "Motions" on SoundCloud following a series of leaks. 2018–2019: Wrld on Drugs and Death Race for Love in August 2018 Travis Scott's song "No Bystanders", from his third studio album, Astroworld, featured Higgins and Sheck Wes. The song peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. Higgins made his late night television debut performing the song "Lucid Dreams" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on August 8, 2018. On October 15, the song "Armed and Dangerous" was released along with the music video followed by the lead single, "Fine China", from the collaborative mixtape, Wrld on Drugs with Future. Epic Records released the mixtape on October 19. He collaborated with American singer Seezyn for the song "Hide" from the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its soundtrack, both of which were released on December 14, 2018. In a December 2018 interview with XXL, Ski Mask the Slump God confirmed that he would be releasing a joint mixtape with Higgins titled Evil Twins in 2019; the project has yet to be released. The pair also announced a 2019 tour featuring 30 concerts across North America. Higgins's 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. He then embarked on The Nicki Wrld Tour, alongside Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj. Higgins released the music video for the song "Fast" from Death Race for Love on April 9. Later that year, he released other singles: "All Night" with RM and Suga of BTS, "Hate Me" with Ellie Goulding, "Run", "Graduation" with Benny Blanco, and "Bandit" with NBA YoungBoy. Released in early October, "Bandit" was the last song to be released by Higgins before his death that December. It peaked at number ten on the Hot 100. ==Posthumous releases==

2020: Legends Never Die and various singles Higgins's first posthumous appearance was on Eminem's eleventh studio album Music to Be Murdered By on the track "Godzilla", released on January 17, 2020. "Godzilla" peaked at number three on the Hot 100 and number one on the UK Singles Chart. On January 22, an announcement was posted on Higgins's Instagram account by members of his family and the team at Grade A Productions that thanked fans for their adoration for Higgins and confirmed their intention to release music that he was working on at the time of his death. Higgins was featured on "PTSD", the title track of G Herbo's fourth studio album PTSD, released on February 28. The track also features Lil Uzi Vert and Chance the Rapper. The single "No Me Ame", a multilingual collaboration between Higgins, Jamaican record producer Rvssian, and Puerto Rican rapper Anuel AA, was released on April 17. A computer-generated image depicting Higgins as an angel appears in the background of the song's music video. Higgins's first posthumous single, "Righteous", was released on April 24 and an accompanying music video featuring footage of Higgins was uploaded to his YouTube channel. Higgins had recorded the song at his home studio in Los Angeles. 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's 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's 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's 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" (a collaboration with Polo G and the Kid Laroi), which reached number two, five, seven, nine, and ten, respectively. Higgins is the third artist to accomplish this feat; the other artists being the Beatles and Drake. "Life's a Mess" jumped from number 74 to number nine that week. was sent to rhythmic contemporary radio as the album's fifth single on July 28. On August 6, "Smile" with the Weeknd was released as a single. "Smile" had previously been leaked on YouTube and SoundCloud under the title "Sad" over a year before, though with an open verse in place of the Weeknd's. On October 23, Lil Bibby confirmed that a second posthumous album was in the works. On December 2, which would have been Higgins's twenty-second birthday, Benny Blanco released a collaborative single titled "Real Shit". Six days later, on December 8, the anniversary of his death, "Reminds Me of You" (featuring the Kid Laroi) was released. In 2020, Higgins was streamed on Spotify over 5.9 billion times, making him the fourth most streamed artist in the world. 2021: Fighting Demons and Into the Abyss On January 15, 2021, Higgins's estate released "Bad Boy" (featuring Young Thug), which was accompanied by a Cole Bennett-directed music video shot entirely before Higgins's death; this marks the final collaboration between the artist and director before the former's death. On March 5, "Life's a Mess II" (featuring Clever and Post Malone), an alternative version of the track "Life's a Mess" from Legends Never Die, was released. On May 28, Higgins's debut full-length album Goodbye & Good Riddance was re-released to commemorate its third anniversary; the re-release includes two new songs, one titled "734" and the other being a remix of "Lucid Dreams" (featuring Lil Uzi Vert). The 2018 single "Armed and Dangerous", which was included on the December 2018 Spotify and Tidal reissue of the album, is excluded from the revised tracklist. Following the re-release of Goodbye & Good Riddance, another posthumous project titled The Party Never Ends was teased by Higgins's management. On June 11, two tracks featuring Higgins were released; "Antisocial" from Migos's album Culture III, and "Can't Leave You Alone" from Maroon 5's Jordi. On August 20, "Matt Hardy 999", a song featuring Higgins from Trippie Redd's album Trip at Knight, was released. Higgins was also featured on Young Thug's album Punk, which released on October 15. On November 11, Higgins's 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 was accompanied by three singles: "Already Dead", "Wandered to LA" (featuring Justin Bieber), and "Girl of My Dreams" (featuring Suga of BTS). The first track was released on November 12, the second on December 3, and the third on December 10. The latter track "Girl of My Dreams", released as a standalone digital release, served as the first promotional single from Fighting Demons (2021) and earned Higgins his first number one on the Billboard Digital Song Sales chart. 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's struggles with mental health and substance abuse through the use of archival footage, in addition to interviews with Higgins's friends, family, and associates. 2022–present: Fighting Demons deluxe and The Party Never Ends 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;" "Cigarettes" debuted at number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100, while "Sometimes" debuted at number 57. On August 26, Higgins was featured on the track "Juice Wrld Did" from DJ Khaled's album God Did. In an interview with Jay-Z, Khaled revealed that he chose to add the song to his album as a tribute to Higgins after Lil Bibby reached out to him and advocated for its inclusion. On October 14, "Bye Bye", a collaborative single with Marshmello, was released alongside a music video. On October 28, Higgins's estate released the song "In My Head;" prior to its release, a 30-second snippet of the track was uploaded to Spotify under the title "Rush Hour". The song was accompanied by a Steve Cannon and Chris Long-directed music video that depicts Higgins recording music and touring at various points throughout his career through the use of archival footage. On February 4, 2023, Higgins's estate announced that his fifth and final studio album, the previously teased The Party Never Ends, was in active development. A two track EP, The Pre-Party, was released on September 9, 2024, as a precursor to the album. An extended edition of the EP was released on October 14. On November 15, the song "AGATS2 (Insecure)" (featuring Nicki Minaj) was released as the lead single for The Party Never Ends. The album was released on November 29. A partnership between Higgins's estate and Epic Games saw the addition of two Juice Wrld outfits to the video game Fortnite as promotional tie-ins; his in-game likeness performed a virtual concert alongside the rappers Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Ice Spice on November 30. The song "Empty Out Your Pockets" was premiered during the event and subsequently added to the track list of The Party Never Ends. On May 30, 2025, Higgins's remix of XXXTentacion's song "Whoa (Mind in Awe)", which Higgins had completed before his death, was officially released. On March 6, 2026, "We Don't Get Along", a collaborative single with Marshmello, was released alongside a music video, having first leaked in September 2020. == Artistry ==

Musical style Higgins said his musical influences were genre-wide from emo, hip-hop, elements of rock, punk and R&B, and that his biggest influences were rappers Travis Scott, Chief Keef, and British rock singer Billy Idol. Billboard writer Michael Saponara claimed, "If West and his sparse 808s were a tree, it would have grown another branch with the blossoming art displayed by fellow Chicago native Juice WRLD in 2018". His other influences included Wu-Tang Clan, Quietdrive, Fall Out Boy, Black Sabbath, the Starting Line, the Cranberries, the City Drive, 2Pac, Eminem, XXXTentacion, Kid Cudi, and Escape the Fate. Higgins had also stated that he listened to bands such as Panic! at the Disco and Killswitch Engage. Higgins's music has been branded as "emo" and "rock" leaning, "genre-bending" More specifically, he has been labeled as a hip-hop, emo rap, trap, and SoundCloud rap artist. With a penchant for short, hook-heavy songs, Higgins was a leading figure in hip-hop during the late 2010s. In 2018, the streaming platform Spotify named "emo rap" its fastest growing genre. Higgins achieved significant mainstream success as a figurehead of the sub-genre. This was boosted by his collaboration with Panic! at the Disco frontman Brendon Urie. Higgins himself considered the emo label to be both negative and positive as he felt music sometimes has to be a bit dark to reflect his belief that the world is not really a light or a happy place. Higgins saw the value in his position as one of very few contemporary SoundCloud artists who could compose soul-baring ballads and odes but remain comfortable freestyle rapping over classic hip-hop beats. Rather than eschewing it, his freestyles emphasize wordplay and feel indebted to the art form's tradition. When asked for his opinion on why freestyles are no longer considered the rite of passage in hip-hop culture as they once were he replied, "Stuff is just changing, that's all. We're moving into a new era of music. I feel like it's not necessarily a good thing to forget where shit started, but shit is changing". Though his songs do not always feature very technical lyricism, intricate flows or tongue-twisting wordplay, Higgins delivered inventive flows and memorable bars during his freestyles. Lyrical themes His most successful singles express melodic, emo-inspired compositions that exhibit his songwriting skill. His songs harbor melodic flows to complement their melancholic subjects. Higgins claimed he talked about things others are thinking but are afraid to speak about, such as being vulnerable and hurt. Having built a following through emo rap, Higgins offered lyrics that touch on heartbreak and fragmented feelings. Though not entirely groundbreaking, his musical approach provided a sense of familiarity that heartbroken adolescents of the current generation could gravitate towards. Higgins maintained that he only wrote from personal experience, and found strength in his pain and vulnerability. While the lyrical content of his songs often centered on heartache and bitterness, there are occasionally more boastful lines and creative references. == Personal life ==

Higgins had a history of drug abuse which began at an early age; 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. He was living in Los Angeles, California, with his girlfriend, Ally Lotti, In August 2021, a YouTube interview between No Jumper and Lotti was published, in which she spoke about how she was pregnant with Higgins's baby on 3 separate occasions. However, they all resulted in a miscarriage due to the stress of both of their lifestyles. In the year before this, Lotti also made a series of now-deleted tweets, where she spoke about how she had a miscarriage after Higgins's death, due to "grief". == Death ==

, pictured in March 2022 On December 8, 2019, Higgins was aboard a private Gulfstream jet flying from Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles to Midway International 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 said that they found of marijuana on the aircraft and said several members of Higgins's management team aboard the flight told them that Higgins had taken "several unknown pills", including allegedly swallowing multiple Percocet pills while police were on board the plane searching the luggage. Higgins had a convulsion episode and a seizure; two doses of emergency medication naloxone (Narcan) were administered, as it was suspected that he had an opioid overdose. 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. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office did not initially determine the cause of death. Higgins's funeral was held on December 13, 2019, at the Holy Temple Cathedral Church of God in Christ in Harvey. Friends and family were in attendance, including collaborators Ski Mask the Slump God and Young Thug. Reactions Fellow rapper Boosie Badazz suggested that the pilot of the plane was ultimately responsible for Higgins's death, referring to him as being a snitch. In fact, Higgins had been suspected by federal authorities of illegal activity following an incident that occurred in November 2019 before he departed for Australia, which prompted a search of his plane. Badazz gave an interview threatening violence upon the pilot before later recanting, after reflecting on the dangers of young artists suddenly being overwhelmed with money. Rapper Uncle Murda purported that Higgins' overdose was not due to clinical addiction. British artist Ellie Goulding, who collaborated with Higgins on her single "Hate Me", described him in a tweet by saying he was "such a sweet soul" and had "so much further to go". Higgins' song "Legends" was dedicated to XXXTentacion, who had died at age 20, and Lil Peep, who overdosed in late 2017 at age 21. His mother expressed hope that his legacy would help others in their battles with addiction, saying it "knows no boundaries, and its impact goes beyond the person fighting it...We know that Jarad's legacy of love, joy and emotional honesty will live on." She established the Live Free 999 Fund later in honor of Higgins and the battle he fought against addiction, anxiety, and depression. The fund's primary goal is to support programs that target young and underserved populations. With a focus on addiction, anxiety and depression, the organization hopes to normalize the conversation about the mental health challenges that Higgins faced, and provide an avenue for people to process those challenges in a healthy way. At the time of his death, it was reported that Higgins had taken the pills in an attempt to hide them from law enforcement officers, however, his videographer, Chris Long, said that Higgins "did not swallow a bunch of pills because the police were at the airport. We gave no fucks about them being there. He could have flushed them down the toilet if he cared". == Discography ==

Studio albums • Goodbye & Good Riddance (2018) • Death Race for Love (2019) • Legends Never Die (2020) • Fighting Demons (2021) • The Party Never Ends (2024) == Filmography ==

• The Nicki Wrld Tour with Nicki Minaj (2019) == Awards and nominations ==

American Music Awards === Berlin Music Video Awards === BET Awards BET Hip Hop Awards Billboard Music Awards iHeartRadio Music Awards MTV Video Music Awards == Notes ==