Juice wrld

Chicago rapper Juice Wrld would have been celebrating his 23rd birthday in 2021, were it not for his untimely death in 2019, when he passed away at just 21 years old. The rapper was aboard a plane from California to Illinois and suffered a seizure at Chicago's Midway airport upon landing, according to TMZ. He was later pronounced dead, shocking the music industry and fans. The artist was just on the rise as an up-and-coming young rapper, but his short-lived career didn't get to see the fruits of his labor. A month after he passed, the Cook County Medical Examiner revealed that his death was an accidental overdose caused by use of codeine and oxycodone. Juice Wrld, who was born Jarad Anthony Higgins on December 2, 1998, joined the long list of American musicians who tragically died by drug use. While his death came as a surprise to many, some of his most loyal fans were probably not too taken aback by the news. The rapper often spoke about his drug use in his music, and he even eerily predicted his death in his 2018 song "Legends." Juice Wrld's dark lyrics predicted his death Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images Some of the now infamous lyrics of that song spoke about the rapper's desire to die young, and create a new and younger club of fallen entertainers. The lyrics included lines like these: "All legends fall in the making Sorry truth, dying young, demon youth What's the 27 Club? We ain't making it past 21" The tragic 27 Club, as Rolling Stone explains, consists of young entertainers who died at 27 years old. But based on his lyrics it was safe to assume that Juice Wrld had no interest in going that far and probably preferred to go earlier. The song would subsequently chart a few weeks after his death, per Billboard. He also spoke about his mental well-being in his music. In his first chart-topping hit, "Lucid Dreams," the rapper, who was also a singer, won over a lot of fans with the song about heartbreak. It was this song that placed him on the map, helping in