His first posthumous album, Legends Never Die (2020), matched chart records for most successful posthumous debut and for most U.S. Higgins died following a drug overdose on December 8, 2019. He then collaborated with Future on the mixtape Wrld on Drugs (2018), and released his second album, Death Race for Love, in 2019 it contained the hit single ' Robbery' and became Higgins' first number one debut on the US Billboard 200. It was included on his triple platinum debut studio album Goodbye & Good Riddance (2018), alongside the singles ' All Girls Are the Same', ' Lean wit Me', ' Wasted', and ' Armed and Dangerous', all of which charted on the Hot 100. He gained recognition with his now diamond-certified 2018 single ' Lucid Dreams', which peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100. Higgins began his career as an independent artist in 2015 and signed a recording contract with Grade A Productions and Interscope Records in 2017. His stage name was derived from the film Juice (1992) and he stated it represents 'taking over the world'. He was a leading figure in the emo rap and SoundCloud rap genres which garnered mainstream attention during the mid-late 2010s. Jarad Anthony Higgins (Decem– December 8, 2019), known professionally as Juice Wrld (pronounced 'juice world' stylized as Juice WRLD), was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.
