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Juice Wrld’s 20 greatest tracks

Remember Juice with his 20 best songs

It’s a tragedy that the world has lost Juice Wrld. The cocky – but also emotionally vulnerable – freestyling master passed away following a seizure  at the weekend. To celebrate his greatness, here are Juice WRLD’s 20 greatest tracks.

• READ MORE: RIP Juice WRLD – The NME Obituary

20 Moonlight 

For the fans who were bumping Juice Wrld before he blew up, ‘Moonlight’ was that lazy love song that exposed his secret romantic side. Full of little tongue-in-cheek lines ( “she got a man, I told him come to the moonlight, bro” ) about his lover, Juice catches every bad thought you’d have of him, and makes you wanna “dance in the moonlight” so bad that you just might.  

19 Make Believe 

Finishing off his excellent second album ‘Death Race For Love’ , Juice Wrld displays his possessive side as he professes his love for his girlfriend on Ally Lotti on ‘Make Believe’ – a dark tale of romance over a menacing instrumental, garnished with repetitive, infectious guitar riffs.

18 Feeling 

Infectious xylophone notes create a sense of the exotic that takes this track outside of Juice’s usual moody sound. Being a self-professed freestyle ( “ I know I just fucked up, but bitch, I’m still the freestyle king” ), the affluent raps about trips to the bank, and all his success comes straight off the dome. Plus, it features his catchiest line (“I reek off good vibes ”).  

17 Syphillis 

Full of murderous imagery, his braggadocio is at 2000 as he repeats “On that gun is a d*ck, I’m gon ‘ fuck your face with it” . You can also hear Juice boasting about his drug use, as well as lines that make you sympathetic: “ Codeine with the Percs , take too many, feel like I’ma die / I can’t go out like that, ain’t tryna make my mama cry“ . Although heavily disturbing, the distorted melodies and 808s create this sound that you have to rage to. WARNING: This track is probably not the one for the faint hearted.  

16 Too Smooth  

One of his oldest tracks on his Soundcloud, this self-produced auto-tuned, smooth but cut-throat crooner was released when Juice was still JuiceTheKidd. As he signed off (and after hearing him say it over and over again), you have to come to the conclusion that “ You can catch [him] up to no good / Too smooth for [his] own good” .  

15 Candles 

Taken from his debut album, ‘Goodbyes and Good riddances’, this bouncy emo rap ode to a worrying level of possessiveness exposes the insecurities within Juice (and many who feel alike) after feeling battered and bruised by love. As he croons the bridge, he speaks on how twisted up he is with his new lover: “ Love don’t end good for me, no good for me / She’s good for me, too good” .  

14 Scared of Love 

‘Scared Of Love’ is the only heartbreak song you need. Even if it has lyrics full of lean-sipping and Xanax-taking, Juice Wrld pours out his pain and takes you on a therapeutic journey to feel terrible before you feel better. Repeatedly saying that he’s “ not enough” and that his pain is “way too much” , you’re left with a pleading man who reaches outside of himself for solutions: “ Lately I been feelin’ the worst / So I gotta dress like the best” .  

13 Hear Me Calling 

The dancehall-inspired single from ‘Death Race For Love’ was a new melodic venture for Juice. Seemingly a love-sprung puppy, he sets the record straight that his love life is a lot happier. There’s a lot less talk about using drugs as escapism, replaced instead with these poetic lyrics about his new love: “ Wine glass full of your emotions / Oh, Pinot Grigio, sippin ‘, beautiful, heaven-soul woman”.

12 Lean Wit Me 

Juice Wrld breathes new and real life into emo rap to life on ‘Lean Wit Me’ – a song all about abusing drugs for escapism. He cries out about just how bad his addiction had got. Juice was able to tap into the mind of a modern-day addict that uses drugs to bond, pleading for you “ Lean with me, pop with me / Get high with me if you rock with me”. The sombre and subdued guitar refrain throughout shows his punk rock influences, yet the reverb on the beat distort the whole picture.

11 All Girls Are The Same 

This dreamy breakthrough track had everyone turning up to his deep heartbreak. The fast pace and 808 sequence make a track about hopelessness and misery quite upbeat – and a sing-along perfect for some drunk hip-hop karaoke. Creating music for those who don’t like to express their feelings, Juice expressed them for them. This is the track that really kicked off his career.

10 Used to 

‘Used To’ is, yes, another song about Juice Wrld’s crumby relationships. Painting the picture of a relationship crumbling apart due to infidelity and deceit, he tells a story of many heartbreaks. This is before he tries to win his new lover back by exposing his insecurities due to his toxic relationships: “ She already knows / It’s hard for me to let go”.  

9 Nuketown 

Most certainly his best feature, Juice Wrld gives his raging fans another banger alongside his “evil twin” Ski Mask The Slump God. Ripped from Ski’s debut album ‘STOKELEY’ , ‘Nuketown’ was one of the stand out tracks due to the pair’s menacing vocal delivery and mind-bending bars. A brand new vibe for fans, this track was the dream collaboration that was worth bursting every eardrum.  

8 End of the Road 

Nearing the end of his debut album we find ‘End of The Road’ – a pixilated track spiralling out of control with its disjointed melody. But even though it may feel slightly chaotic, the song just hits you with its almighty power with an ethereal feel. It’s almost like the beat itself dances around his lyrics of pain and now suicidal thoughts, as we come to the end of the road: “This is the end of the road / This is the end of the rope”.  

Plucked from Atlanta rapper Yung Bans’ debut self-titled mixtape, Juice’s bravado is in full flow on this feature as he preaches of his gangster credentials: “ Banana clip on me ’cause n****s be really actin’ like they chimpanzees” .  

6 Armed And Dangerous 

Originally a random music video posted on the Lyrical Lemonade platform, this throwaway became a new party track upon release. With a new style of production, the synths warp the fun and careless energy that we loved Juice Wrld for. It’s an anthem for the reckless.

5 Ring Ring 

Bringing rock and rap together on a larger scale, ‘Ring Ring’ speaks for those who just needs a break from life. Repeating telling everyone to “just leave [him] alone” we understand that he just wants some time to himself. The coarse computerised vocals of the chorus with the featured rocker Clever make this the perfect loner track to headbang to.  

4 Fine China 

Finally making his dreams comes true, Juice Wrld teams up with Future for an EP full of auto-tuned goodness. Like ‘Wrld On Drugs’, this track explores the two’s love (and hate) of the drugs – as well as Juice’s favourite topic; love – although having some worryingly possessive lyrics ( “ So if she leaves, I’ma kill her, oh, she’ll die / Did I say that out loud? I’m so crazy about mine” ).

3 Yacht Club 

Juice’s controversial (for like, a week) Drake line came from his verse on this Lil Yachty track. Taken from Yachty’s ‘Nuthin’ 2 Prove’ , the two go back to back over shallow steel-pans and soft 808 drums. Juice uses tongue-in-cheek humour about his life, including his love of groupies – in which he claims “ But I ain’t on no Drake shit, I won’t get her pregnant” .

The bulging bassline on this darkened track is played askew to the rest of the production, and is the perfect beat to Juice Wrld’s punchy punch-ins. Rapping about his puzzling mental state, Juice makes a song for the ones with mental trauma and speaks on behalf of them, using a maze as a metaphor: “ Mama, I’m losing my mental / The sorrows that I’ve been through”  

1 Lucid Dreams 

‘Lucid dreams’ was Juice Wrld’s sleeper hit. After the success of ‘All Girls Are The Same’ on YouTube, Juice plucked this track from a previous project to re-release as his now smash favourite. Crying out to the world about how romantically damaged he was, the gothic lyrics set a bizarre tone for such a catchy track. The ghosts of his past ( “I still see your shadows in my room” ) still loomed over him, but he was able to make some great music out of it.  

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Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, Jarad Higgins would freestyle rap through his school hallways. As a teenager, he began recording as Juice WRLD (a nod to the 1992 film starring 2Pac) and set his eyes on stardom. “My biggest fear is not getting to the point I want to,” he told Apple Music in the documentary accompanying his 2018 Up Next campaign, “but that’s also my biggest strength.” His distinctive, genre-blending take on emo rap—Auto-Tuned vocals, hints of pop punk, and beats inspired by Chief Keef and Chicago drill—shines on the breakthrough singles “Lucid Dreams” and “All Girls Are the Same,” which plumbed grief and regret and heartbreak with alarming honesty. Just five months after his star-making debut project, Goodbye & Good Riddance, he released a full-length collaboration with Future that felt like a euphoric, decadent victory lap. His second full-length solo project, Death Race for Love, released in March 2019, continued to mine personal pain for maximum drama, while collaborations with BTS and Ellie Goulding exhibited his range. Juice WRLD passed away in Chicago in December 2019 at age 21.

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Juice WRLD, the Young Rapper, Confronts Death at a Brooklyn Cemetery

Catacombs, famous headstones and a place to deposit secrets. “What is this?” he said. “The gates of Hell?”

By Ben Detrick

“It’s not as scary as I thought it was going to be, as far as graveyards,” said Juice WRLD , the 20-year-old rapper from Chicago. He was visiting Green-Wood cemetery, the 478-acre burial ground in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.

It was a bright and gusty April afternoon, but the spirits guided him correctly: The pastoral resting place of Boss Tweed, Bill the Butcher, Leonard Bernstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat is more a destination for picnickers than horror buffs.

“Damn near too much to take in, you almost gotta close your eyes,” Juice WRLD said cheerfully. “It’s so dead, it’s alive.”

He had arrived at Green-Wood with two friends and a record label publicist in a black 15-seat Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. He was in New York to promote his second album, “Death Race for Love,” which debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart and has remained among the Top 5 since March 8.

The whirlwind tour included a Spotify event at the Brooklyn Museum in which life-size statues of him, Cardi B, Gunna and Jaden Smith were unveiled for temporary display; an appearance on “The Tonight Show” ; and shopping at Flight Club , a consignment sneaker store in Greenwich Village.

A detour at a Victorian cemetery seemed an appropriate setting for a fast-rising star with goth-leaning inclinations in both his music and style. “It’s an interesting subject,” Juice WRLD said of death. “It’s an enigma.”

[ Juice WRLD has died at 21 . Read the Times obituary.]

Led by a pair of Green-Wood staffers, they trudged up a stone path that slipped between pale crucifixes, weathered tombstones and birches the color of palomino horses. Juice WRLD’s pink camouflage jacket and fuchsia Palm Angels hoodie were bubble gum bursts in a hillscape of matted grass and leafless trees.

He was good-natured and chatty. “This brings back memories, walking with you,” he said to Ty Fairconeture, whom he called his brother.

The group paused to snap photos of the Statue of Liberty, a puny figure beyond the Gowanus Bay. Nearby was a marble obelisk with a narrow, mailbox-like slit. Made by Sophie Calle, a French artist, and commissioned by Creative Time in 2017, the artwork encourages visitors to write down secrets and deposit them into a subterranean chamber that will be sealed for 25 years.

Juice WRLD was handed a pen and a scrap of yellow paper. He wrote intently for several minutes and slipped his note through the slot: ‘It’s too juicy for the music,” he said of his secret. “It has to go underground.”

One of his pals asked if he had signed it. “I did on purpose, after you told me not to,” he said. “They’re going to look at it, ‘Juice WRLD was here?’”

He already traffics in oversharing. His music is woozy, emotional goo, a disgorgement of heartbreak, boastfulness and drugged-out memento mori that reflects influences as disparate as rappers like Chief Keef and Drake, and early 2000s rock bands like Fall Out Boy and Escape the Fate.

In Gen Z fashion, he was first exposed to diverse sounds by the video game Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and learned keyboard chords through YouTube tutorials.

The atmospherics at Green-Wood were an easy segue into discussing the morbid bent of his music.

“I talk about stuff like that because those are subjects that people are a) too scared to touch on, or b) don’t do it the right way where people can learn from your mistakes,” he said. “I cherish every mini-second of this life.”

Next up was a frigid, manicotti-shaped structure: catacombs built in the 1850s for families who could not afford mausoleums of their own. Harry Weil, the director of public programming at Green-Wood, unlocked the imposing iron gates.

“What is this?” Juice WRLD said. “The gates of Hell? If it’s meant for me to go out like this. …” He trailed off.

Everyone in the caravan ducked out of the way as he recorded an Instagram story for his six million followers . It showed him entering the catacombs, and it included a coffin emoji.

Inside the dark tube, which is illuminated by skylights, he and his friends weighed bets on spending the night in small vaults that housed up to a dozen corpses. “Anything touch me, I’m running,” someone muttered.

After 20 minutes in the catacombs, it was time to visit the grave of Basquiat, the Brooklyn-born artist who died in 1988. Everyone piled out of the Sprinter and walked in the direction of Basquiat’s nondescript headstone, a popular attraction that was festooned with flowers.

Juice WRLD stayed in the vehicle, ostensibly to charge his Juul vape pen. “I’m going to get out in 45 seconds,” he said.

He did not. A few minutes later, he said he was suffering from a stomachache. “I didn’t know he died from a heroin overdose,” he said of Basquiat. “His art makes so much more sense to me. I look at him like I look at ’Pac” — referring to Tupac Shakur — “I’m not the biggest ’Pac fan, but I admire their work greatly.”

Juice WRLD, who was born Jarad Higgins, raps frequently about drug use, and, considering his oscillations between chipper acuity and heavy-lidded mumbling, it does not appear to be a stage persona. “When I was getting high at a young age, I’d be scared to tell people,” he said. “That wasn’t normal.”

Did learning about Basquiat’s death trigger something uncomfortable in his sense of mortality? “Every now and then I have concerns,” he said, revealing that he planned on undergoing a detox in Los Angeles, where he lives. “But at the end of the day, I’ll be fine. I was put on this earth for a reason.”

Soon the Sprinter was winding its way toward the Green-Wood gates and back to Manhattan. Juice WRLD plugged his phone into the stereo and played an untitled track that he had just recorded in the hotel. “When I die, put me in a tomb / That’s what zombies do,” he sang out.

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The Life and Death of Juice WRLD

When Juice WRLD boarded a private jet in early December 2019, for what would turn out to be the last flight of his young life, his friends and family had become increasingly alarmed about his drug intake. Jarad Anthony Higgins, as his birth certificate read, had long been an open wound on wax and in interviews about his battles with prescription drugs like Xanax and Percocet, and his struggles with mental health in general. It was a habit, he said in a radio interview , that started as early as his freshman year of high school and continued as he discovered the drug-saturated music of rappers like Future. In two weeks, he was set to enter a rehab program, but first he headed from Los Angeles home to Chicago, accompanied by a handful of friends and security guards, to celebrate his 21st birthday with a game of paintball.

In the three years since he started releasing music to SoundCloud, Juice had found huge success with a tender-voiced combination of melodic hip-hop, emo, and pop-punk—nine months before his death, his second album, Death Race for Love , debuted at number one on Billboard’s chart. His music stood out for its rawness and emotional vulnerability: In the intro to “Lean Wit Me,” off 2018’s platinum-selling Goodbye & Good Riddance debut, he sang, “Drugs got me sweatin’ but the room gettin’ colder / Lookin’ at the devil and the angel on my shoulder / Will I die tonight? I don’t know, is it over? / Lookin’ for my next high, I’m lookin’ for closure.” As 2019 neared an end, those in Juice’s inner circle were becoming increasingly alarmed by his levels of drug consumption. “Man, you’re taking this a little too far right now,” his recording engineer and arguably his closest musical confidante, Max Lord, remembers thinking at the time.

Juice had been sneaking around doing drugs—prescription opioids and/or lean (codeine and sometimes promethazine, mixed with soda) were his usual choices—with different people, oftentimes pretending that he was sober in order to use again with a new group. “We were all starting to be on his case a lot more about the amount of pills he was taking,” Lord says. “He was hiding and compartmentalizing how much he was doing with different people. He’d come into the studio room and act like he hasn’t gotten high at all that day, and do a certain amount in there before I tell him, ‘Bro, no, chill.’ Then he was going upstairs and hanging out with the guys and doing the same thing.”

When the plane touched down in Chicago in the early morning hours of December 8, federal authorities swarmed the aircraft, having received a tip that there were narcotics and illegal guns on the plane, according to the Associated Press . As officers searched two luggage carts—where they found multiple bags of marijuana, several bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, and three guns with metal-piercing bullets—Juice suffered a seizure, and a Homeland Security Officer administered Narcan, according to Chicago PD. Juice was then transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center, but he was pronounced dead en route. The official cause of death, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office, was an accidental overdose of codeine and oxycodone.

Lord had decided at the last minute not to join his friend on the plane trip to Chicago that evening. Now, he says, “I wish I could have been there to maybe have something go differently. Or just be there one last time.”

During a tour of Australia that ended just a week prior to Juice’s death, Lord and others close to him had finally confronted him about his drug use. “We had just broken down a lot of barriers with him,” Lord explains. “I and a couple other people had come to him in tears, like, ‘We’re worried about you, and we’re scared we’re going to lose you if you keep up these habits. And we have to do something.’ And he agreed. And we had treatment booked for later [starting on December 22]. That was the soonest they were available to get him in. It hurts. It really hurts.”

Juice and his mother, Carmela Wallace, began to talk regularly about his drug use after he became famous and she heard his narcotics-drenched lyrics on the radio. “He was saying, ‘It’s anxiety, and this is how I’m dealing with it,’ ” she told me. Wallace was constantly trying to persuade him to get help, and specifically, to resume speaking to a psychologist with whom he’d worked during his teenage years. “One of our last conversations was on his birthday, and he told me he was going to go to a place in a few weeks to get help. He just had access to so much. It was so readily available to him. That was hard to watch. He knew that was my biggest fear. It wasn’t like he tried to hide what he was doing from me. He was honest. I understood it was [an] addiction, and he needed help. I was just trying to get him to the place where he knew how serious it was.”

While his drug use was hardly a secret, Juice’s death still sent shockwaves through the music industry, especially in light of the then recent deaths of two contemporaries, XXXTentacion and Lil Peep, both of whom Juice had memorialized on Too Soon, a two-track EP he released in June 2018. On “Legends,” Juice sings, “They tell me I’ma be a legend, I don’t want that title now / ’Cause all the legends seem to die out.” XXXTentacion was shot by robbers at the age of 20, and Lil Peep died of an overdose two weeks after his 21st birthday. “SoundCloud rap,” as their subgenre was known, was characterized by extremely raw and oftentimes tragic songs, but just when the sound was moving toward the center of music, its most promising artists were gone.

“It wasn’t supposed to happen like this,” says Cole Bennett, who directed several of Juice’s biggest music videos, including his breakout song, “All Girls Are the Same.” “I feel like he was just getting to new levels of his creativity.”

Almost everyone who met Juice recognized his immense potential from the outset. “The first time I heard his music, it was just crazy,” says G Herbo, his longtime friend and a star of the Chicago drill music scene. “Some of the hardest shit I ever heard from a kid.” The songwriter-producer Benny Blanco , who discovered Juice on Instagram and immediately proceeded to set up a recording session with him in L.A., recalls being blown away by his ability to craft a song on the spot. “He hears one second of the beat, he goes in and not only does he come up with the lyrics and the melody, but he does the entire song in one take,” Blanco recalls. “And he did three more takes and did three more hit songs over the same beat. And then he just says, ‘Pick the best parts you like.’ ” Juice recorded several songs in that one session with Blanco, and he would do the same with numerous other collaborators. “Yeah, we recorded eight songs that first day,” says Blanco, still palpably amazed. “And it wasn’t like he had dumb lyrics—his shit made you feel something.”

Juice had the rare ability to freestyle lyrics and melody with intense emotion—a feat he famously demonstrated for more than an hour on Tim Westwood’s British radio show, in 2018. Producer Rex Kudo recalls the first time he met Juice at Metropolis Studios in London, where Kudo was working on a song with the artist M.I.A. Seconds after meeting her, Juice went into the booth, “and he just started freestyling,” Kudo remembers. “We made an amazing song, and it’s not something we could have done on purpose. I started it for [M.I.A.], and Juice went in and made it his own.”

Kudo describes Juice’s insatiable desire to record as “like a faucet that’s stuck on.... He just had a constant channel. It’s not too often that artists are excited to record, even if they’re great. A lot of artists see it as clocking in or having to chase a hit. But he was like a kid in a candy shop. So excited and having so much fun with it. And having the awareness of how great the gift he had was, but not being clouded by it.”

“He was just hungry,” Bennett adds. “You could just kinda tell there was something different about him than a lot of artists.” The Migos rapper Offset also recalls Juice’s passion: “I worked with Juice twice at his crib in L.A., and he spoke to me about being the biggest star that he can be, and that he was just at the beginning of his path. His intelligence was clear. He had so much love for his people and where he came from.”

Juice’s talent showed as far back as kindergarten. Carmela Wallace signed him up for music lessons when he was six, and after witnessing his ability to memorize songs and pick up instruments in a matter of days, educators began telling her that her son had a knack. As the family moved around the south suburbs of Chicago, he joined the school band as a percussionist, and picked up guitar in seventh grade. By sophomore year of high school, he’d started recording songs directly into his cell phone and uploading them to SoundCloud. A year later, he quit band.

“I wasn’t happy about that,” Wallace says. “I wanted him to be in band, because I was thinking about college and opportunities with music. But it was one of those things where I had to pick my battles, because he wasn’t going. It sounded good for me, but it didn’t work for him.”

But Juice was all in on his own music, and he eventually linked up via Twitter with two high school–age producers/beatmakers, DT and Nick Mira. The three collaborators began working together at a manic clip, and steadily pieced together what became the 2017 EP JuiceWRLD 9 9 9, which he eventually released on SoundCloud.

Juice’s music soon caught the attention of a local Chicago tastemaker, DJ Victoriouz, who began playing it for close friends. Juice also connected with other Chicago music figures, like G Herbo and the producer Gmoney, who runs the label Grade A Productions with his brother, the rapper Lil Bibby. Bibby and Gmoney began guiding Juice’s career, and around this time Bennett got a call from Bibby about a new artist he was working with. “Bibby sent me a ton of Juice’s music,” Bennett said. “And I was like, Yo, this is crazy! I fell in love with it right when I heard it.”

Within a month, Bennett and Juice were shooting the music video for “All Girls Are the Same.” On February 24, 2018, the night before the video went live on YouTube, “we FaceTimed for like an hour,” Bennett recalls, “and I was telling him that there’s a good chance your life is gonna change soon by starting to put out this music, and how talented he was, and that people are going to gravitate towards it. It was just something you knew. You could feel it.”

Bennett’s instincts were correct: Almost overnight, the video began doing massive numbers, and attention poured back to Juice’s debut EP, specifically its Sting-sampling track “Lucid Dreams,” which interpolates the Police singer’s “Shape of My Heart.” The track—woozy and lush, a bit adolescent but heartfelt—would go on to be Juice’s breakout hit, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and landing him a recording contract with Interscope Records worth a reported $3 million. As Mira, who produced the song and the majority of Goodbye & Good Riddance , recalls, in the first year “Lucid Dreams” was uploaded to SoundCloud, Juice barely had any followers, and yet the song still notched half a million plays “just off the strength of it being a good song and getting around.” To date, the song has been streamed over 1.6 billion times on Spotify.

Even by modern-day standards, Juice’s ascent was vertiginous: By the time Death Race for Love was released, in March 2019, he was a bona fide star. “He was just going in, song after song,” Mira says. “I’ve seen a lot of people blow up right before my very eyes, but I don't think anyone’s ever seen an artist blow up that quick,” Bennett says. “Watching an artist go from underground to a superstar in a matter of a couple months is just unheard of.”

With its poppy hooks and nods to emo and pop-punk, Juice’s music was set up to reach a wide audience. Mira believes his transparency made him into an instant star: “Juice’s honesty and everything he put into his music was really easy for people to accept and hear and want to share,” Mira explains. “There was always a relatability factor. Everybody could feel the true emotion. He wasn’t just writing songs just to write songs to make money. He was expressing himself through his music, battling his own demons, battling his own problems, and literally putting it out on a track and letting the world just judge it.”

Juice’s music could be dark and fatalistic (“Codeine with the Percs / Take too many, feel like I'ma die / I can't go out like that / Ain't tryna make my mama cry,” he rapped on “Syphilis”), but by all accounts, he was a happy-go-lucky, humble young kid whose main concern was keeping himself and his friends amused. Blanco calls him “one of the purest people I ever met,” while Bennett refers to him as “a selfless superstar.” “It was insane, because he just didn’t know what an ego meant,” Bennett adds. “There wasn’t a bone in his body that even understood what that word meant.”

“We had to remind him of how big of a star he was and how much power he had,” says G Herbo. “He was so humble, he didn’t even take advantage of his power. We used to tell him, ‘Bro, you know who you are?! You Juice WRLD!’ ”

Rather than spend money on trappings like cars and jewelry, Juice instead treated himself like the kid he still was: Aside from buying a house in the Los Angeles area, he collected Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, played old-school PlayStation 1 and Sega Genesis games, and bought paintball guns and all-terrain vehicles for his friends. “All he cared about were his friends and trying to have fun and be in the moment,” says Lord. “He didn’t care about any of the superfluous stuff or anything but his loved ones, his friends, and making music and having fun. He never had one car, but he has 10 dirt bikes and four ATVs, just so he and his friends can go out and have fun together.... He was just a kid.” 

“Juice was a living Santa Claus,” says Peter Jideonwo, one of his managers, and a partner and the COO of Grade A Productions. “I think he was put on Earth to be a vessel to help people.”

But drugs were always present in his life. Juice regularly rapped about popping pills and drinking lean, and how he problem-solved “with Styrofoam.” Jideonwo said Juice’s drug use “worried us every single day.” He estimates that he and other members of Juice’s management team took the rapper to doctors between 20 and 30 times over the past few years of his life, to help him overcome his addiction issues; once, they flew him from Los Angeles home to Chicago, just to have his brain and heart scanned. “Juice always tried to change,” Jideonwo continues, “but ultimately it was just a battle that he couldn’t beat. “[Overcoming] addiction is something that takes time, and we just ran out of time.”

“[Juice] talked about sobriety,” says Mira. “That’s always been an open topic for him.... His struggle on and off, his battle that he was fighting with prescription medication. Everybody felt love for him. We wanted to make sure he was good and wasn’t having to mask these problems. We all wanted the best for him. It’s just a tough fight.”

Juice recognized the pitfalls of his habits. “I smoke weed, and every now and then I slip up and do something that’s poor judgment,” he told The New York Times in 2018. “I have a lot going for me, I recognize it’s a lot of big things, a lot of big looks. I want to be there, and you don’t have to overdose to not be there.” Drugs, he said in a 2018 radio interview, “separate a person’s soul from their body even more, ’cause your mind could be telling you ‘fuck no’...but your body is dependent.... It can tear you apart.”

Before the Australia tour, Juice was mostly in Los Angeles, enjoying life. An old friend he met in Chicago, the producer ChaseTheMoney (who years earlier had recorded the unreleased “Rockstar Status” with Juice), recalls being at the rapper’s house a few months before his death. “I pulled up millions and millions of beats, and he was just rapping,” ChaseTheMoney says. “I tell you, bro, he was in a good spirit. I was happy for him. Big-ass house with a fucking pool. Just everything. It was good. I was happy to see he had his shit together.”

Bennett was there a few weeks later, when all of Juice’s friends gathered together in the pool for a game of 500. Blanco recalls recording a song with Juice roughly one month before he died. His friends all told me that Juice was in high spirits and excited about the future. “He was talking about how he wanted to act, and how I was gonna work on films with him, and we were gonna take things to new levels,” Bennett says. “He always trusted me, but he was finally getting to a point where he was starting to trust himself more.”

But Kudo’s last interaction with Juice went a bit differently. Kudo says that he and their mutual friend A$AP Bari had a heart-to-heart talk with Juice about his escalating drug use. Bari, Kudo says, warned Juice that if he kept up his habits, he might end up dying, just as Bari’s close friend the prolific A$AP Yams did, of an accidental drug overdose, back in 2015.

“We were just talking about some of the stuff that was going on with him, and how to have self-control,” Kudo recalls. “Not trying to be his parent or anything, but just being his friend.” Kudo believes that Juice may have been too far gone to heed their advice: “You can’t control someone into doing something, though. Because at a certain point, when people tell you not to do something, then you’ll just go and do it behind a closed door.”

Without comment from those on the plane with Juice that December evening, there’s only speculation about what happened in the rapper’s final minutes. “Knowing how he was that week, knowing how [high] he was acting the night before flying out, I’m willing to believe that he honestly just overdosed,” Lord says. “I don’t think there’s a greater conspiracy going on regarding the circumstances of his death,” he added.

Lord hypothesizes that Juice may have taken pills simply to stay high during a potential detainment by the police. “He might have been like, ‘Oh, damn, we’re being detained. What if I can’t take anything for two days? What if I have to get booked and get bailed out? I’m not trying to come down. I want to make sure I’m high.’ ”

Juice’s mother is more succinct: “Even before the tests came back, I knew what [he died] from,” she says. “And I made the decision from the beginning that I’m not going to hide it. I want people to know the seriousness of it.” That’s why, in April 2020, she launched the Live Free 999 foundation , which aims to support young people in their battles with anxiety, addiction, and depression.

“After he passed, I just received such an outpouring from fans on how his music helped them, some even saying it prevented them from committing suicide,” Wallace says. “It just touched my heart and made me realize the message of healing has to continue. I felt like it was my duty to carry on and help others. And in the process of helping others, it helps me too.”

More than one year after his death, Juice’s music continues to be among the most streamed in the world. A posthumous album, Legends Never Die , was released last July; it promptly debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Wallace says it’s bittersweet to see her son have so much continued success, but not be here to enjoy it. “It’s rewarding to see, but it’s sad too, because I miss him,” she says.

“The impact that he left on the world is crazy,” G Herbo adds. “Only he could do it. I’ve never seen nothing like it. It’s because of the work he put in when he was here.” Lord says he’s not taken aback by Juice’s continued relevance. “It doesn’t surprise me at all,” he says. “It feels amazing to see how much people supported him and were fans of him. It’s incredible to see how much people loved him, and still do.”

Above all, Lord says, he simply misses his friend: “Not a day goes by that I’m not fully aware of Juice,” he says. “I carry him with me every day.”

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Juice spacecraft to pass over Earth in 'world first' fly-by

Some keen stargazers may be able to spot Juice pass overhead, with the spacecraft flying directly over South East Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

Monday 19 August 2024 00:14, UK

The European Space Agency's Juice craft will return to Earth tonight, taking part in a "world first" fly-by.

Flight controllers will guide the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice), with UK-made scientific instruments on board, past the moon and then Earth.

The risky manoeuvre will take Juice on a shortcut to Jupiter via Venus, using the moon's gravity and then Earth's, as a natural brake - slowing itself down and then sling-shotting on to the next phase of its journey.

The mission launched in April 2023 on a 4.1 billion-mile journey which will take more than eight years.

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Onboard are 10 scientific instruments, which will investigate whether Jupiter's three moons - Callisto, Europa and Ganymede - can support life in its oceans.

Experts from the European Space Agency (ESA) admit the slightest mistake could take the spacecraft off course and mean the end of the mission.

From around 11.57pm on Monday into the early hours of Tuesday, the agency says a double world first will take place with the lunar-Earth fly-by and the double gravity assist manoeuvre.

The move will change Juice's speed and direction to alter its course through space.

Earth will bend Juice's trajectory through space, redirecting it on course for a fly-by of Venus in August 2025.

From then on, energy boosts will begin, with the spacecraft being sped up by Venus and then twice by Earth.

Powerful binoculars or a telescope will give them the best chance of seeing the spacecraft.

Two cameras on board Juice will be taking photos throughout the lunar-Earth flyby, which will be shared publicly as they are received on Earth.

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The risky manoeuvres are needed because Jupiter is on average 800 million kilometres from Earth.

Without an enormous rocket, sending Juice straight to the gas giant would require an impossible 60,000kg of onboard propellant.

The UK Space Agency has invested approximately £9m in Juice, which has scientific instruments including various imaging devices, systems for recording the surface of Jupiter's moons, and sensors to examine their atmospheres.

The UK has helped develop two of those instruments and led the construction of another - the magnetometer (or J-MAG) - which measures magnetic fields.

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Dr Caroline Harper, head of space science at the UK Space Agency, described the manoeuvre as "tricky" and requiring "incredibly precise navigation".

She said: "This is a world first: a double fly-by of the moon and Earth has never been done before... even a tiny mistake could knock Juice off course".

"This saves a huge amount of fuel, which means that when Juice arrives at its destination, it can do a lot more science."

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French 75 cocktail

The Paris Olympics reminded of the city’s alluring beauty as stunning imagery of its most popular attractions danced from our television screens in between diving, dancing and the decathlon.

For those pinged by the nostalgia for gazing at the Eiffel Tower from your hotel balcony or the leisurely midday glass of Champagne among the hilltop bistros of Montmartre, you’re not alone. Whether you attended the Olympics and are already missing the city, or Paris is a destination you’ve yet to explore, there are a variety of French-inspired cocktails you can make at home to transport you to the cafes of the Champs-Élysées to the taverns around the Tuileries Gardens.

Top 7 French Cocktails

Read on to discover a taste of France’s most popular drinks, from Cognac to the Champagne-based Kir Royale cocktail.

The French 75 cocktail was reputedly invented at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris after WWI, of which the cocktail borrows its name from the 75 millimeter field guns that were used during the war. It’s a simple build, using France’s most popular sparkling wine, but easily elevates any get together.

Ingredients: 3 oz Champagne, 1 oz gin, 0.5 oz fresh lemon juice, 0.5 oz simple syrup; lemon twist for garnish

Method: Combine the gin, simple syrup and lemon juice into a cocktail shaker with ice; shake until chilled then strain into a Champagne flute. Float in the Champagne to the top of the glass and garnish with a lemon twist.

The original Kir Royale traces back to Dijon, Frame, just after WWII, when bartenders spruced up Champagne with creme de cassis liqueur. This recipe uses Chambord , a black raspberry liqueur from the Loire Valley, that mimics cassis’ brambly profile without the syrupy sweetness. Try this as a brunch cocktail in place of the ubiquitous mimosa.

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Ingredients: 5 oz Champagne, 0.5 oz Chambord, lemon twist for garnish

Method: Add the Chambord to the bottom of a Champagne flute, careful not to splash the sides with its violet hue. Slowly pour in the Champagne to fill the flute (about 5 oz) then garnish with a lemon twist.

Lillet Rosé Spritz

Lillet is a wine-based aperitif produced in Bordeaux, France. Though Lillet Blanc may be most famed for its part in a vesper martini, the spritz craze has fueled attention for this fresh, fruity rendition that is a low-ABV way to end a day.

Ingredients: 2.5 oz Lillet Rosé , 2.5 oz club soda, grapefruit wheel for garnish

Method: Pour Lillet Rosé into a wine glass full of ice cubes. Top it with club soda and garnish with a grapefruit wheel.

Boulevardier

In French, boulevardier translates to “a frequenter of the Parisian boulevards,” therefore, it only makes sense that this riff on a negroni was born in Paris. Interestingly, it was a Parisian publisher who created this cocktail and named it after the eponymous Boulevardier Magazine, dedicated to expats living in the city in the 1920s. It’s ideal both as an aperitif and digestif.

Ingredients: 1 oz bourbon, 1 oz Campari, 1 oz sweet vermouth, cocktail cherry garnish

Method: Add all ingredients to a mixing glass filled with ice; stir until the glass shows condensation. Strain into a low-ball glass filled with ice or a single, large ice cube. Garnish with a cocktail cherry or slice of orange.

Glass of Pastis.

Even though this anise-flavored aperitif is typically served in the South of France come sunset, you’ll find it at many traditional cafes throughout Paris, served in its typical fashion with a pitcher of water. Pastis is heralded for its soothing effects on the stomach, likened to an antacid.

Ingredients: 1.5 oz pastis (like Pernod), 5 oz water or more to your liking

Method: Add pastis to a highball glass and pour in 5 oz of ice-cold water (don’t use ice though as it’s not so typical and it can crystallize the pastis); stir and add more water to dilute as you wish.

Death in the Afternoon

Ernest Hemingway is known for drinking his way around the globe, especially through France, but this boozy beverage is actually said to have been created by him. Cited in his 1932 non-fiction book of the same name, Hemingway praises the drink’s milkiness, of which he slowly sips multiple glasses over the span of an afternoon.

Ingredients: 1.5 oz absinthe; 4 oz Champagne

Method: Add the absinthe to a Champagne glass or coupe glass; top off with Champagne (about 4 oz or until the cocktail appears “milky”).

Death in the Afternoon.

There are varying origins of this cognac-based cocktail, with one of them tracing back to Paris in the 1920s for the patron who arrived at the bar in the sidecar of a motorcycle . Now a classic cocktail, it combines citrus with cognac to present a sexy sip that’s perfect for date night or to impress when ordering in front of prospective clients.

Ingredients: 2 oz cognac, 0.75 oz orange liqueur, 0.75 oz fresh lemon juice, orange twist garnish.

Method: Combine the wet ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice; shake until chilled then strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with an orange twist.

Of course, there is no shortage of French libations to enjoy neat, whether savoring a cognac or armagnac, sipping on a Chartreuse or pouring up a glass of Champagne, there are plenty of options to embrace your inner Parisian at home.

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