Like his Atlanta rap hero, Juice WRLD’s career is a chilling paradox: What nearly destroyed his life is now the source of his continued prosperity. By 18, he’d quit lean and pills, but his dalliances with both informed a suddenly promising rap career. By 13, he was experimenting with the drugs he heard about in the records. Juice found rap in middle school through the music of Future. His musical education came from video games, in the era where console power beefed up considerably, and soundtracks for franchises like Tony Hawk Pro Skater made punk and metal fans out of kids who’d never encountered the stuff before. The Midwest rapper/singer grew up in a strict, religious household barred from listening to hip-hop. Juice WRLD is the kid our parents warned us about.
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