100 Fun Facts About Juice Wrld

What was Juice Wrld's real name?

Jarad Higgins died six days after turning 21, an age he had sung he would not outlive on a 2018 tribute to two fellow rappers.

In which city was Juice Wrld born?

Chicago was his birthplace, though he grew up in its south suburbs idolising the city's rappers, and it was one of them who gave him his first deal.

Juice Wrld took the first half of his stage name from a 1992 film starring which rapper?

Tupac Shakur's performance in Juice gave him the name; the 'Wrld', he said, came to stand for taking over the world.

Under what name did Juice Wrld first release music on SoundCloud in 2015?

JuicetheKidd was the name on 'Forever', one of the tracks he recorded straight onto his phone as a high-school student and posted online.

Why did Juice Wrld's mother keep hip-hop out of the house when he was a child?

Her conservative religious beliefs ruled rap out, so he found rock and pop-punk instead through the soundtracks of Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.

Which instrument did Juice Wrld learn first, taking lessons as a young child?

Piano lessons were his way into music as a boy, in a home where his mother would not allow hip-hop.

Juice Wrld's 2018 single 'Roses', made with Benny Blanco, features the frontman of which band?

Panic! at the Disco was one of the bands he loved as a teenager, so the single paired the rapper with the voice of a group he had grown up on.

Whose record label, Grade A Productions, did Juice Wrld sign with in 2017?

Lil Bibby, a drill rapper turned label boss, signed him to Grade A and steered his early career together with his brother G-Money.

Which producer made Juice Wrld's breakout single "Lucid Dreams"?

Nick Mira produced both early hits that won Juice Wrld his record deal, and he built this one around a guitar figure borrowed from a 1993 Sting ballad.

"Lucid Dreams" is built around an interpolation of which Sting song?

Shape of My Heart earned Sting 85% of the royalties, and he joked that the hit would put his grandchildren through college.

Juice Wrld recorded the 2019 song 'All Night' with two members of which K-pop group?

BTS rappers RM and Suga made 'All Night' with him for a mobile-game soundtrack, and Suga later returned for a duet on one of his posthumous albums.

Which pop-punk band sued Juice Wrld in 2019, claiming "Lucid Dreams" copied their song "Holly Wood Died"?

The band dropped the suit in 2020 out of sympathy for his grieving mother.

What was the title of Juice Wrld's debut studio album, released in May 2018?

Goodbye & Good Riddance, released weeks after his record deal, went platinum and turned a teenager who posted songs online into a chart regular.

Which Atlanta rapper shared the 2021 single 'Bad Boy' with Juice Wrld?

Young Thug and Juice Wrld restage the buddy-cop film Bad Boys in the video, the last one Juice Wrld filmed, released more than a year after his death.

Who is the only featured guest on Juice Wrld's 2018 debut album, appearing on "Wasted"?

Lil Uzi Vert was a late addition: 'Wasted' came out as a single in July 2018, weeks after the album, and was folded into a reissue.

On which show did Juice Wrld make his late-night television debut in August 2018?

Jimmy Kimmel Live! had him perform 'Lucid Dreams' that August, five months after a record deal lifted him from posting phone recordings online to network television.

Which director shot the Lyrical Lemonade videos for "Lucid Dreams" and other early Juice Wrld singles?

His neon-and-warping visual style became closely tied to Juice Wrld.

Juice Wrld's 2018 EP Too Soon.. was a tribute to Lil Peep and which other rapper?

XXXTentacion was shot dead in June 2018, seven months after Lil Peep's fatal overdose, and Juice Wrld's two-song tribute was online within days.

Juice Wrld's 2018 collaborative mixtape Wrld on Drugs was made with which rapper?

Future joined him for the 2018 mixtape, which the pair announced by posting the same photo of a whiteboard covered in song titles.

On which Travis Scott album did Juice Wrld appear on the track "No Bystanders"?

Astroworld gave him a guest spot on 'No Bystanders' beside Sheck Wes, a prize for a rapper who called Travis Scott his biggest inspiration.

What was the title of Juice Wrld's second studio album, released in March 2019?

Death Race for Love gave him his first number-one album in March 2019 and proved to be the only follow-up he lived to release.

The cover of Juice Wrld's second studio album is styled like a game case for which classic console?

PlayStation is the look: the cover apes an original PlayStation game case, and the 'Hear Me Calling' video puts him in an armed Jeep straight out of Twisted Metal.

What was the lead single from Juice Wrld's second studio album, released in February 2019?

Robbery's first verse sets his father's advice, never to let a woman see that you are insecure, against the worse advice of his own heart.

Which rapper announced a joint mixtape with Juice Wrld called Evil Twins, which never came out?

Ski Mask the Slump God said the two kept recording because they saw so much of themselves in each other, but one single, 'Nuketown', is all that surfaced.

Juice Wrld co-headlined a 2019 European arena tour with which female rapper?

Nicki Minaj brought him in when her original co-headliner pulled out, and the run across Europe was renamed The Nicki Wrld Tour.

What was Juice Wrld's last single of new material in his lifetime, a top-ten hit with YoungBoy Never Broke Again?

Bandit, out in October 2019, was his last new single; hours before he died, his label also gave an official release to a 2017 freestyle from his SoundCloud days.

Juice Wrld's final flight, in December 2019, took off from which Los Angeles-area airport?

Van Nuys was the departure point; federal agents were waiting when the Gulfstream landed, and he suffered a seizure as they searched the luggage.

According to the medical examiner, Juice Wrld died from toxic levels of codeine and which other drug?

Oxycodone, together with codeine, was ruled the cause six weeks after his death; an agent had given him two doses of the overdose antidote Narcan at the airport.

Juice Wrld's first posthumous appearance was on "Godzilla", a 2020 track by which rapper?

Eminem's surprise album arrived in January 2020, six weeks after Juice Wrld's death, with the late rapper's voice on the chorus of 'Godzilla'.

What was the title of Juice Wrld's first posthumous album, released in July 2020?

Legends Never Die replaced The Outsiders, the title his girlfriend had announced weeks earlier, and its 497,000 first-week units made it 2020's biggest debut to that point.

Juice Wrld's first posthumous album replaced which late rapper's at number one in July 2020?

Pop Smoke had been killed that February, so for two weeks that summer the top two albums on the Billboard 200 were both by rappers who had died within months of each other.

Juice Wrld became the third act with five Hot 100 top-ten songs in one week, after Drake and which group?

The Beatles managed it in 1964 and Drake in 2018; Juice Wrld joined them seven months after his death, with five songs from one posthumous album.

Which EDM producer features on "Come & Go", a number-two hit from Juice Wrld's first posthumous album?

Marshmello recalled Juice Wrld breaking off to do wheelies on a dirt bike, then coming back to finish a whole song in one take.

Which singer features on "Life's a Mess" from Juice Wrld's first posthumous album?

Halsey had put him on a remix of her number-one hit 'Without Me' in 2019; after his death she returned the favour on a duet that reached the top ten.

Juice Wrld's album Fighting Demons tied in with a documentary on which service?

HBO Max released Into the Abyss, a film that follows him on the road until his death and does not look away from his drug use.

Which Justin Bieber collaboration was a single from Juice Wrld's album Fighting Demons?

Wandered to LA was first previewed in 2018, three years before the finished duet came out a week ahead of the album.

Which British pop singer shared the 2019 single 'Hate Me' with Juice Wrld?

Ellie Goulding mourned him months after their duet came out, writing that he 'had so much further to go' and was 'just getting started'.

Which Canadian star joined Juice Wrld on 'Smile', a single released eight months after the rapper's death?

The Weeknd granted a wish: Juice Wrld had tweeted in 2019 that the two of them would make a diamond record, and the duet arrived eleven months later.

Which Japanese contemporary artist designed the cover art for Juice Wrld's 2024 album?

Takashi Murakami designed the cover for an album that took three years to finish, as leaks of its songs kept complicating the track list.

A virtual Juice Wrld concert was held in which video game to promote his 2024 album?

His in-game likeness performed alongside Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Ice Spice.

A single from Juice Wrld's 2024 album was written as a sequel to which of his earlier songs?

All Girls Are the Same was the heartbreak song that won him his record deal, and the sequel opens with the original's refrain.

Which streaming platform named "emo rap" its fastest-growing genre in 2018, a scene Juice Wrld led?

Spotify crowned the genre in 2018; two years later, a year after his death, Juice Wrld was the platform's fourth most-streamed artist in the world.

Which British rock singer did Juice Wrld name among his biggest influences, beside Travis Scott and Kanye West?

Billy Idol is the odd one out on a rapper's list, a taste formed in a home where rock was allowed and hip-hop was not.

How did Juice Wrld typically create his songs?

By freestyling lyrics instead of writing them down: he said he mostly did not write, and in 2018 he improvised for more than an hour on Tim Westwood's radio show.

What did Juice Wrld's mother name the charity she set up in his honour?

Live Free 999 Fund was his mother Carmela Wallace's answer to his death: she chose to speak openly about his addiction so that other young people might get help.

From which suburban Illinois high school did Juice Wrld graduate in 2017?

Homewood-Flossmoor's district remembered a brilliant, creative student; The New York Times had earlier called him a bad student with an active imagination.

Which fellow rapper did Juice Wrld mentor, later collaborating on the song "Go"?

The Kid Laroi got a Juice Wrld verse as a sixteenth-birthday present in 2019 and called him his 'big brother'; 'Go' came out six months after his mentor's death.

Which award did Juice Wrld win at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards, the year after 'Lucid Dreams'?

Top New Artist was his only win that night: he was also up for Top Rap Artist and four song prizes for 'Lucid Dreams', and lost them all.

Which 2018 Juice Wrld single about addiction has a video that ends with a drug-treatment helpline number?

Lean wit Me has a video that opens in a recovery meeting, where he is asked to introduce himself, and closes on the number of a national treatment helpline.

For roughly how much did Interscope Records sign the 19-year-old Juice Wrld in 2018?

$3 million, by Billboard's count, went to an artist with a single viral video to his name; Complex headlined it as a deal scored without a plan.

Juice Wrld's song "Hide", with the singer Seezyn, is on the soundtrack of a 2018 animated film about which superhero?

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its soundtrack album both arrived on December 14, 2018. The film went on to win the Academy Award for best animated feature.

Juice Wrld's 2018 joint mixtape Wrld on Drugs entered the Billboard 200 at number two behind which film soundtrack?

A Star Is Born, sung by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, kept the mixtape off the top in October 2018. Its 98,000 first-week units still gave Juice Wrld a second top-ten album.

Which RIAA certification did Juice Wrld's "Lucid Dreams" reach in February 2022, just over two years after his death?

Diamond status marks ten million units in the United States. The song had first been uploaded in 2017 and drew 2.5 million plays before its official release as a single.

Roughly how many unreleased songs was Juice Wrld reported to have recorded by the time of his death in 2019?

About 2,000 songs were reported to be in the vault a month after he died, and 26 of them leaked online within weeks. His label and family promised to share more.

Before his music career took off, Juice Wrld was fired within two weeks from a job at what kind of workplace?

A factory job left him so dissatisfied that he was let go inside a fortnight. He was already uploading songs, and his debut EP followed in June 2017.

Juice Wrld discovered rock music as a child through Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and which other video game?

Guitar Hero and the skating game brought him metal bands such as Megadeth, at a time when rock and pop were allowed at home but rap was not.

Which singer performed part of Juice Wrld's "Lucid Dreams" at the piano while hosting the 2019 Grammy Awards?

Alicia Keys was hosting the 2019 telecast and sang about thirty seconds of the song herself, less than a year after it had peaked at number two.

What is the title of Juice Wrld's third posthumous album, released in November 2024 after three years of teasers?

The Party Never Ends was named by his manager in July 2021 and followed a two-track EP. It entered the Billboard 200 at number four.

On which everyday device did Juice Wrld record most of his first tracks before uploading them to SoundCloud?

A cellphone was his whole studio in his second year of high school. He had already learned several instruments by then, starting with lessons at the age of four.

Juice Wrld was a second cousin of which Memphis rapper, who learned of the family tie only in 2017?

Young Dolph founded the independent label Paper Route Empire and signed another relative, Key Glock, to it in the same year he discovered the link.

What is the subtitle of the 2021 Juice Wrld documentary directed by Tommy Oliver, winner of an AFI Fest audience award?

Into the Abyss mixes archive footage with interviews with his friends and family, and was previewed for fans at an arena tribute a week before its release.

Which song, recorded at Juice Wrld's home studio in Los Angeles, became his first posthumous solo single in April 2020?

Righteous came with a video that opens on footage of him touring and recording, then turns into an animation in which he leaves Earth. It peaked at number 11.

Which rapper shares the 2020 single "Tell Me U Luv Me" with Juice Wrld, after performing it beside him in 2019?

Trippie Redd performs alone against a crumpled-paper backdrop in the video, while Juice Wrld appears only in clips from his earlier shoots.

Which producer put a track titled "Juice Wrld Did" on a 2022 album after the late rapper's manager pushed for it?

DJ Khaled added it to God Did as a tribute. The song had been made without him, with Juice Wrld borrowing several of Khaled's best-known catchphrases.

Which rock band that Juice Wrld first heard in video games joins him on "Best Friend", from his 2024 album?

Fall Out Boy were on his list of influences, and a Guardian critic once compared his singing to theirs. They are one of six guest acts on the album.

Juice Wrld appears on "PTSD", a 2020 title track that gave which rapper a first entry on the Hot 100?

G Herbo was among the established names who noticed Juice Wrld's early uploads in 2017. "PTSD" came out less than three months after his death and peaked at number 38.

A remix of "Suicidal" featuring Juice Wrld was first previewed by which rapper on the day Juice Wrld died?

YNW Melly released the remix in March 2020, after the song had gone viral on TikTok. It peaked at number 20 on the Hot 100, his second top-twenty hit.

Which Puerto Rican rapper made "No Me Ame" with Juice Wrld, who appears in its video as a computer-animated angel?

Anuel AA recorded the song in Miami with a Jamaican producer, who suggested that Juice Wrld would suit it. It was the two rappers' first collaboration.

Which rapper features Juice Wrld on "Flex" and joins him on "Hate the Other Side", a posthumous top-ten hit?

Polo G put "Flex" on his album The Goat in May 2020. Two months later "Hate the Other Side" reached number ten on the Hot 100.

Juice Wrld added a verse to an August 2019 remix of "Ransom", the signature song of which rapper?

Lil Tecca first put the remix on SoundCloud, then added it to his debut mixtape We Love You Tecca beside the original version.

Juice Wrld and Benny Blanco's 2019 single "Graduation" is based on a 2000 hit by which singer?

Vitamin C's original shares the one-word title, with a subtitle about friendship. In the remake's video Juice Wrld plays Gary, a student whose obsession with video games costs him his sight.

Which rap group included "Antisocial", a song featuring Juice Wrld, on the 2021 album Culture III?

Migos placed it as the thirteenth track of the album, which came out on June 11, 2021, eighteen months after his death.

Which pop band released "Can't Leave You Alone", a 2021 album track with a posthumous verse from Juice Wrld?

Maroon 5 put it on Jordi, an album named after their late manager, whose other guests include Megan Thee Stallion and H.E.R.

Which rapper shares the guest vocals with Juice Wrld on the Travis Scott track "No Bystanders"?

Sheck Wes and Juice Wrld are both credited with additional vocals on the song, which reached number 31 on the Hot 100.

Juice Wrld guests on "MoshPit", a promotional single from which rapper's 2018 album Dying to Live?

Kodak Black released the song on December 12, 2018, two days before the album, whose other guests included Travis Scott and Offset.

In May 2020, Juice Wrld's girlfriend said his next album would carry which title, before his label changed plans?

The Outsiders was the album he had planned himself. His label and family held it back and put out a tribute collection first, in July 2020.

Which song from Juice Wrld's first posthumous album first leaked online under the title "Lauryn Hill"?

Wishing Well took its working title from a name-check of the singer. Billboard ranked it the best song on the album, and it debuted at number five.

Which lead single from Juice Wrld's album Fighting Demons had been recorded over three years earlier, in March 2018?

Already Dead sat unreleased for years while his manager hunted for the recording. Released officially in November 2021, it reached the top twenty.

Which lead single arrived four days before the surprise release of Juice Wrld's 2018 joint mixtape Wrld on Drugs?

Fine China was recorded at a studio session in July 2018. The second single, "No Issue", came with a video shot in the desert.

Which producer collective founded by Taz Taylor did Juice Wrld join shortly before releasing his debut EP in 2017?

Internet Money is a record label as well as a team of beatmakers. One of its members produced his breakout single.

Juice Wrld recalled singing "Street Lights", a song from which Kanye West album that inspired the emo-rap scene?

808s & Heartbreak was West's fourth album, and a Billboard writer described Juice Wrld's music as a new branch growing from its tree.

Juice Wrld suffered a fatal seizure in December 2019 shortly after his private jet landed at which airport?

Midway was where police were waiting to search the jet for drugs and guns. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died.

Juice Wrld Day, a tribute event held on December 9, 2021, took place at which NBA arena?

United Center hosted performances by friends and collaborators, plus a preview of the documentary about him a week before its streaming release.

What is the name of Juice Wrld's mother, who became the representative of his estate after his death?

Carmela Wallace raised him and his older brother in a single-parent home. After his death she said she hoped his legacy would help others battling addiction.

Which brass instrument did Juice Wrld play in his school band class, having also taken up the drums?

Trumpet was his band-class instrument. His musical training had started far earlier, with lessons from the age of four that his mother paid for.

The intro of Juice Wrld's debut album samples a ballad that which star recorded with Khalid in 2018?

Billie Eilish and Khalid's "Lovely" is heard in the intro and again in the "Karma" skit later in the album.

Which female rapper joined Snoop Dogg on the bill of the 2024 virtual concert given by Juice Wrld's digital likeness?

Ice Spice shared the stage in a show that also premiered a previously unheard Juice Wrld song, which was then added to his album.

Which cracked device sits at the bottom of Juice Wrld's debut album cover, below a drawing of a man driving away?

An iPhone with a hang-up button completes the scene: the woman in the drawing is trying to reach the man as he drives off in a blue car.

In an Atlanta radio interview, Juice Wrld said the "Wrld" in his stage name had come to represent what?

Taking over the world was a meaning he found later: he admitted that the second half of the name originally stood for nothing at all.

Which 2019 Juice Wrld single has a video that drops him into a car chase rendered like a video game?

Hear Me Calling was filmed by the duo Bradley & Pablo, who mixed live action with game-style graphics as he rescues a woman from a speeding truck.

On which 2017 EP did Juice Wrld first release "Lucid Dreams", nearly eleven months before it became an official single?

JuiceWrld 9 9 9 went up on SoundCloud on June 15, 2017, soon after he joined a collective of producers. A three-song EP followed that December.

Juice Wrld's debut album was first uploaded to SoundCloud under a title that cursed out a woman of which name?

Bella vanished from the track list before the official release: a skit named for her betrayal became simply "Betrayal".

Before its official release, the Juice Wrld song "Smile" leaked online under which opposite-sounding title?

Sad was the name it circulated under for more than a year, with an open verse where the guest star's part was later added.

Which Jamaican producer worked with Juice Wrld on both "Ring Ring" and the multilingual single "No Me Ame"?

Rvssian had the idea of adding Juice Wrld to a song he had begun in Miami. Their earlier track together appeared on Juice Wrld's second studio album.

Juice Wrld's first tour, WRLD Domination, was announced in July 2018 with YBN Cordae and which 16-year-old rapper?

Lil Mosey joined a tour announced only two months after the debut album came out, weeks before Juice Wrld's late-night television debut.

In the "Lucid Dreams" video made for Lyrical Lemonade, Juice Wrld is shown trapped up to his head in what?

A floor holds him fast in the clip, his body tied down beneath it, in a video one reviewer called psychedelic and abstract. It passed a billion views in August 2024.

Juice Wrld is the guest on "Demons and Angels", a track from which rapper's chart-topping December 2018 album?

A Boogie wit da Hoodie put the song on Hoodie SZN, which opened at number two and climbed to the top of the Billboard 200 in its third week.

Which emergency medication was given to Juice Wrld twice after he collapsed at an airport in December 2019?

Naloxone, sold as Narcan, was used because those treating him suspected an opioid overdose. He had agreed to enter rehabilitation shortly before his death.

Juice Wrld's "Lucid Dreams" originally carried which two-word subtitle in brackets after its title?

Forget Me had gone from the title by the time the song became an official single in May 2018, nearly eleven months after its first upload.

Which fellow guest on the song "PTSD" wrote that millions were hurting after Juice Wrld's death?

Chance the Rapper shared the tribute on Instagram. Condolences also came from Drake and Lil Nas X, who lamented how often young stars were being lost.