Posted on 12/08/2019 6:24:06 PM PST by BenLurkin
CHICAGO (AP) - Rapper Juice WRLD, who launched his career on SoundCloud before becoming a streaming juggernaut and rose to the top of the charts with the Sting-sampled hit “Lucid Dreams,” died early Sunday after a “medical emergency” at Chicago’s Midway International Airport.
The rapper, whose legal name was Jarad A. Higgins, was 21. Authorities have not released details about his cause of death.
He was pronounced dead at a hospital around 3:15 a.m. and taken to the Cook County medical examiner’s office several hours later, according to office spokeswoman Natalia Derevyanny, who said an autopsy would take place Monday.
Chicago police launched a death investigation after a 21-year-old male experiencing a “medical emergency” was transported from Midway to an area hospital. Police said there were no signs of foul play and those aboard the aircraft were cooperating with authorities. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said the man experienced cardiac arrest and was taken to a hospital from a hangar operated by Atlantic Aviation at Midway, away from the main terminal, where private planes land. Atlantic didn’t return a message Sunday.
The rapper, who was named top new artist at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards in May, lived in the Chicago suburb of Homewood where he stood out as a musician early on.
Juice WRLD turned 21 only days earlier. He was only two years out of high school.
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He was a good boy. Loved his mama. Loved Jesus and America, too. He was a good boy. Crazy about Elvis. Loved horses and his girlfriend, too.
Another from that era; “Alone again, naturally” by Gilbert O’Sullivan.
you HAD to take him? Who made you do it?
Higgins stated his musical influences as being genre-wide going from rock music to rap music. Higgins stated that his biggest influences were rappers Chief Keef,[8] Travis Scott,[43] Kanye West[44][45] and British rock singer Billy Idol.[46][47] His other influences included Wu-Tang Clan, Fall Out Boy, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, 2Pac, Eminem, Kid Cudi and Escape the Fate.[48][49][50] Higgins’ music has been branded as “emo” and “rock” leaning, “genre-bending”[45][8] with music focusing on having a “every broken heart, every wounded feeling.”[51]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice_Wrld#Musical_style
Jarad Anthony Higgins (December 2, 1998 – December 8, 2019), known professionally as Juice Wrld.
Born the same year you registered on FR.
Yeah, when heroin or fentanyl stops your heart, it certainly is a “medical emergency”
Me either. These rappers have been dropping like flies lately.
Juice WRLD ? Sounds like a late night ad for a gadget that Ronco was shilling. Will K-Tel be releasing a Juice WRLD greatest hits record ?
A product spinoff from Bass-O-Matic.
RIP.
21 year olds don’t typically drop dead...unless a bullet or an illegal substance is involved.
He had drug addiction related health problems. Might have been an overdose, might have been acute organ failure (eg liver)
My guess is the latter since he was supposedly conscious, cooperative, and throwing up blood when the paramedics got to him.
Blacks love rap....nearly all under 40 do
White kids....a majority to be sure
Maybe 65-70%
Some white kids listen to pop country too or whatever metal they can find
Mexicans do not listen to black rap
I’m raising white kids in this listening age group
One likes rap but doesn’t listen around me
Another sorta likes some
Another detests it
My daughters both hate it
Is this the same guy that live streamed selling his soul to Satan in a ritual on the beach?
Dunno. But if so, it looks like he should have negotiated a better contract.
“It’s quite possible you’re correct, though he raps about doing a bunch of coke and drinking lean.“
Gave the deceased the benefit of the doubt. Was WAY wrong. Well, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
The Cook Co. coroner just released a report saying this guy died of a massive overdose of oxycodone and codeine. When his private plane landed, the cops were waiting for him. He panicked and swallowed a bunch of Percocet pills so they wouldn’t be found or confiscated — in addition to whatever was already in his system. The cops searched the plane and found 70 lbs. of marijuana in vacuum-sealed bags, bottles of liquid codeine, several guns and armor-piercing ammo and high-capacity magazines.
Darwin Award, hopefully
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