How Juice Wrld Made Sadness a Celebration
The hugely popular 21-year-old rapper, who died after a reported seizure, captured inner instability with ingenious sing-alongs.
Juice Wrld’s star power was both very special and very familiar in music history. To borrow the title of one that the rapper (born Jarad Anthony Higgins) could have had in rotation, he sang the sorrow. When his ,” hit No. 2 on the Hot 100 in 2018, it marked him as one of the young leaders of the influential “emo rap” wave. Trembling instability abounded in the song’s guitar sample,
