Rapper Juice WRLD dies at Chicago airport, aged 21
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 09-12-2019
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Juice WRLD got his start on the music sharing platform SoundCloud before signing to a record label and finding major success on streaming services. His major-label debut album, Goodbye & Good Riddance was a platinum success. It featured the hit All Girls Are the Same, which gained platinum status, alongside seven more platinum hits including Armed & Dangerous, Robbery, Fine China and Legends, which features the lyrics, "What's the 27 Club?/We ain't making it past 21."
He's had 10 songs reach gold status and also had success with 2018's Wrld on Drugs, a collaborative album with rapper-singer-producer Future.
His second album, Death Race for Love, debuted on top of the Billboard charts this year and his most recent single, Bandit with YoungBoy Never Broke Again, reached the Top 10 of the pop charts in October.
Juice WRLD graduated in 2017 from Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School outside Chicago, where he gained a reputation as a talented musician among the nearly 3,000 students. School officials said Sunday that they would offer counseling services for students affected by his death.
"He is remembered by his teachers and staff as being a brilliant and creative student. Jared was extraordinarily talented in music and played many instruments," said school spokeswoman Jodi Bryant. "He was a caring and outgoing person who always tried to reach out to others while at the same time he was introspective and had a great sense of humor."