{"id":973950,"date":"2019-12-09T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=924331"},"modified":"2019-12-09T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:44:36","slug":"questions-mount-following-juice-wrlds-unexpected-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/questions-mount-following-juice-wrlds-unexpected-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions Mount Following Juice WRLD\u2019s Unexpected Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Cook County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office in Chicago delayed the release of the planned autopsy of rapper Juice WRLD<\/a> on Monday as more details emerged surrounding the final hours of the 21-year-old rapper. Juice WRLD, whose real name was Jarad Higgins, died after suffering a seizure<\/a> at Chicago\u2019s Midway Airport on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cook County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has determined that [additional] studies are required to establish the cause and manner of death,\u201d a rep for the medical examiner\u2019s office said in a statement. \u201cAdditional studies include cardiac pathology, neuropathology, toxicology and histology.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a report from the the Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/em>, authorities were searching Higgins\u2019 luggage for contraband when the rapper began to convulse and seize. Two agents administered Narcan \u2014 a drug that counteracts opioid overdoses \u2014 and called an ambulance. Juice WRLD\u2019s girlfriend, who was present on the flight from Los Angeles, told the agents, via the Tribune<\/em>, that Higgins took percocet and had a drug problem. He would die at the hospital one hour after landing in Chicago, though it remains unconfirmed if drugs played a role in the rapper\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

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When the private jet landed, law enforcement agents were waiting to check for contraband, and a drug-sniffing dog alerted authorities to the presence of drugs. The search uncovered 41 bags of marijuana, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9 mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets. It is unclear what alerted the agents to the possibility of contraband on the flight; both the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigations declined to comment when reached by Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

While it has yet to be determined what caused his seizure, Higgins was open about his drug use, particularly lean, in interviews and music<\/a>. Coping with emotional turmoil through drug use was a central theme of his art throughout his short career, and the vast majority of his songs namecheck a drug (typically lean or prescription pills). Upon the release of his collaborative project with Future, 2018\u2019s WRLD on Drugs<\/em>, Juice told radio station Hot 107.9<\/a> that it was Future who inspired him to try lean for the first time. \u201cHearing that music at such a young age, n\u2014a I was trying to sip lean in sixth grade listening to Dirty Sprite, one and true story,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In a later interview with Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, Future expressed regret about this particular influence, while Juice WRLD compared the conversation the two had to a younger brother who wants to emulate an older brother who\u2019s selling drugs. \u201cA lot of people have their own vices and addictions and they know what\u2019s up with it, so they don\u2019t want other people to fall down that slippery slope,\u201d Higgins said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the rapper told Rolling Stone<\/em> that he was attempting sobriety. \u201cAs long as you\u2019re strong within yourself, nobody can influence or affect you,\u201d he said. \u201cAs long as you\u2019re strong within yourself, it don\u2019t matter.\u201d He would later tweet about his plan to kick a drug habit<\/a>, writing, \u201cI\u2019m done [with] it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In just a few years, Higgins became one of the most promising talents in music, in part through fusing a variety of styles, most notably hip-hop with pop-punk and emo. His rise began in 2017 with a pair of singles uploaded to SoundCloud \u2014 \u201cAll Girls Are the Same\u201d and his breakout smash \u201cLucid Dreams\u201d \u2014 which set off a label bidding war that ended with him inking a deal with Interscope worth a reported $3 million.<\/p>\n

He released a string of EPs throughout 2017 before dropping his debut album, Goodbye & Good Riddance<\/em> in 2018 followed by WRLD on Drugs<\/em>. In March, he released his second LP, Death Race for Love<\/em>, which landed at Number 40 on Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s Best Albums of 2019 list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Cook County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office in Chicago delayed the release of the planned autopsy of rapper Juice WRLD on Monday as more details emerged surrounding the final hours of the 21-year-old rapper. Juice WRLD, whose real name was Jarad Higgins, died after suffering a seizure at Chicago\u2019s Midway Airport on Sunday morning. \u201cThe Cook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 14:08:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}