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After taking an interest in music during his childhood, learning to play the piano at 4 and later picking up the guitar, drums and trumpet, he began releasing music to [=SoundCloud=] during his first years in high school under the name [=JuicetheKidd=]. He later changed his name to Juice WRLD; the "Juice" part comes from the 1992 film ''Film/{{Juice}}'', since he admired Music/TupacShakur's role in the film, while the "WRLD" part initially had no meaning but later came to represent "taking over the world".

After officially beginning his career as an independent artist in 2015, Juice WRLD joined the Internet Money collective in 2017, and shortly after released his debut EP ''9 9 9''[[note]]999 was a significant number to Juice that appeared in his music; he explained it as an inversion of the NumberOfTheBeast (666) symbolic of "taking whatever ill, whatever bad situation, whatever struggle you’re going through and turning it into something positive to push yourself forward"[[/note]]. A song from the EP, "Lucid Dreams", served as his BreakthroughHit; with his newfound success, and cosigns from rappers like Music/WakaFlockaFlame, he signed with Grade A Productions and Creator/InterscopeRecords. Upon the song being re-released through the labels as a single for his 2018 debut album, ''Goodbye & Good Riddance'', it would go on to peak at #2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and was later certified Diamond in 2022. The album itself generated several other hit singles (including "All Girls Are the Same", his official debut single), was certified Platinum by the end of the year, and was eventually certified quintuple Platinum in 2023.

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After taking an interest in music during his childhood, learning to play the piano at 4 and later picking up the guitar, drums and trumpet, he began releasing music to [=SoundCloud=] during his first years in high school under the name [=JuicetheKidd=]. He later changed his name to Juice WRLD; the "Juice" part comes from the 1992 film ''Film/{{Juice}}'', since he admired Music/TupacShakur's role in the film, while the "WRLD" part initially had no meaning but later came to represent "taking over the world".

After officially beginning his career as an independent artist in 2015, Juice WRLD joined the Internet Money collective in 2017, and shortly after released his debut EP ''9 9 9''[[note]]999 was a significant number to Juice that often appeared in his music; he explained it as an inversion of the NumberOfTheBeast (666) symbolic of "taking whatever ill, whatever bad situation, whatever struggle you’re going through and turning it into something positive to push yourself forward"[[/note]]. A song from the EP, "Lucid Dreams", served as his BreakthroughHit; with his newfound success, and cosigns from rappers like Music/WakaFlockaFlame, he signed with Grade A Productions and Creator/InterscopeRecords. Upon the song being re-released through the labels as a single for his 2018 debut album, ''Goodbye & Good Riddance'', it would go on to peak at #2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and was later certified Diamond in 2022. The album itself generated several other hit singles (including "All Girls Are the Same", his official debut single), "Lean wit Me" and "Armed and Dangerous"), was certified Platinum by the end of the year, and was eventually certified quintuple Platinum in 2023.
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Jarad Anthony Higgins (December 2, 1998 – December 8, 2019), known professionally as Juice WRLD (pronounced "juice world") was an American rapper, singer and songwriter. [[ShortLivedBigImpact While he was only active for four years, he became a prominent figure in modern rap during the mid-to-late 2010s]], primarily through the {{melodic|Rap}} emo rap and [=SoundCloud=] rap genres that gained mainstream attention during that time. His take on the sound was a essentially [[GenreMashup fusion]] of {{rock}} and TrapMusic.

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Jarad Anthony Higgins (December 2, 1998 – December 8, 2019), known professionally as Juice WRLD (pronounced "juice world") was an American rapper, singer and songwriter. [[ShortLivedBigImpact While he was only professionally active for four years, he became a prominent figure in modern rap during the mid-to-late 2010s]], primarily through the {{melodic|Rap}} emo rap and [=SoundCloud=] rap genres that gained mainstream attention during that time. His take on the sound was a essentially [[GenreMashup fusion]] of {{rock}} and TrapMusic.

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