![]() Juice was alive when they made ‘Graduation’, but had passed by the time it was released this year. Then there was the tune he made with his friend and tenured hitmaker Benny Blanco. Juice WRLD was hitting it big before he passed, featuring on songs with Ellie Goulding, Future and more, but his posthumous features are even wilder: he finally got to feature on a song with his idol Eminem ‘Godzilla’ tops both of the rapper’s Spotify popular track lists, with almost 800 million plays. Just look at all the crazy collaborations to come out after his death. He was able to rattle off endless feel-good rap hits with such ease and talent that transcends his lifespan. And there aren’t many artists you can say that about. Juice WRLD’s posthumous music has been of the same calibre as the music he released while alive. Here’s why that legacy endures… Even his posthumous releases go hard Now a new documentary, Into The Abyss, detailing the life and aftermath of Juice WRLD, accompanies another posthumous album, ‘Fighting Demons’, which NME called “evidence of a nuanced, complex artist whose legacy is stunning in its richness”. Juice’s first posthumous album, ‘Legends Never Die’, topped the US and UK album charts with his inimitable brand of rock-infused bounciness. He allegedly left over 200 songs in the vault after his passing, according to a tweet from his manager, Chicago drill star-turned-label Grade A label founder Lil Bibby. ![]() ![]() But that hasn’t stopped him from being one of today’s biggest stars. Touring to sold-out crowds and topping the charts with his second album ‘Death Race For Love’, Juice WRLD was taken from the planet as he was on the cusp of greatness. Jarad Higgins, who was just 21 years old when he passed, turned his legions of fans onto his ’00s emo influences while also dubbing himself the “codeine Cobain”. Two years on from the harrowing day on which Chicago’s emo-rap hero Juice WRLD sadly died from an overdose, the music world still feels the tremors of his absence.
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