Juice WRLD

Known as Juice Wrld, Jarad Anthony Higgins (born in Chicago on December 2, 1998) is influenced by rock, as evidenced by the first tracks he posted on the Internet in 2015. Raised by his practicing Christian mother, he was forbidden to listen to rap music at home, but nevertheless practiced several instruments in his teens, including piano, guitar and drums. After a few trials, he released his first mixtape, Juice Wrld 999, in 2017 and garnered several million views on YouTube with the track "Moonlight". In 2018, video after video followed: "All Girls Are the Same" (No. 41), "Lucid Dreams", which put him on the map on a massive scale (his biggest hit, ranked No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100), "Lean wit Me" (No. 68) and "Wasted" (No. 67), featuring Lil Uzi Vert, included on his debut album Goodbye & Good Riddance (No. 4 in 2018), from which "Armed and Dangerous" (No. 44) is also taken. A few months later, alongside the release of "Fine China" (No. 26), Juice Wrld and Future teamed up for the Wrld on Drugs mixtape (No. 2 in 2018), featuring collaborations with Young Scooter, Young Thug, Lil Wayne, Yung Bans, Gunna and Nicki Minaj. Distinguishing himself with emo rap influences, he continued in this vein on the single "Robbery" (No. 27), the first single from the album Death Race for Love, (No. 1 in 2019). After a trip from Los Angeles to Chicago, a week after a concert in Australia, the 21-year-old rapper is taken ill and transported from the airport to Oak Lawn Hospital, Illinois, where he is pronounced dead on arrival on December 8, 2019. A first posthumous album, Legends Never Die, was released in the summer of 2020 and reached No. 1. Fighting Demons, which followed at the end of the year, reached No. 2 and featured contributions from Justin Bieber, Polo G, Trippie Redd and Suga from the group BTS. A posthumous third volume, recorded just before his death, The Party Never Ends, was finally released in 2024 and includes collaborations with Nicki Minaj, Fall Out Boy, Offset, Eminem and Benny Blanco.