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Remembering Juice WRLD"Juice WRLD, one of a crop of sweet-voiced singing rappers who emerged from the streaming platform SoundCloud in recent years, died on Sunday, the authorities said. He was 21," the New York Times reports. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office in Illinois confirmed the death in a statement. * Jessi Roti wrote for the Tribune in June 2018 that "no artist has had such seeming overnight success quite like Juice Wrld - the 19-year-old Calumet Park native who signed a reported $3 million deal with Interscope in March after his 2017 EP Juice Wrld 999 started racking up millions of streams on SoundCloud, thanks to singles 'Lucid Dreams' (currently No. 6 on Billboard's 'Hot 100') and 'All Girls Are the Same' (first featured on the three-song Nothings Different EP, amassing 48.3 million plays)." * * * Juice WRLD was a "supernova," Max Cea writes for GQ. "Juice seemed like the SoundCloud artist best poised to persevere." * "Born in Chicago on Dec. 2, 1998, he was raised in the south suburb of Homewood, Ill. He said his parents divorced when he was 3, and he was raised mainly by his mother, a student teacher who steered him toward gospel instead of hip-hop," the Washington Post reports. Cousins introduced him to rappers including Lil Wayne and Meek Mill, and he soon learned piano, guitar and drums. By 16, he was putting songs on SoundCloud under the name JuiceTheKidd, inspired by the Tupac Shakur movie Juice. He later added World to his name, dropping the o to make himself more noticeable. * * "For a rapper whose songs were so bleak, Juice WRLD never felt like a dark figure," Alphonse Pierre writes for Pitchfork. "Juice WRLD blurred the lines, his singsongy, piano-driven hip-hop about heartbreak and pain - and the drugs that numbed that heartbreak and pain - never felt like the work of a character, but a rapper who turned his personality up to 100." * Five key songs and features via Variety. *
- Posted on December 9, 2019 |
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