The trailer for an upcoming documentary on the meteoric rise and tragic fall ofJuice WRLDhas been released, just in time for what would have been thelate rapper’s 23rd birthday.
“Sometimes, this s— gets overwhelming, but this is what I asked for,” he says in the trailer. “I say certain things so I could have conversations with my friends. If people get it and it relates to their life, then I’d love for them to get that s—.”
The Chicago-bred hip-hop artist, born Jarad Anthony Higgins,died at age 21 on Dec. 8, 2019after having a seizure at Chicago’s Midway Airport. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office later determined his cause of death was anaccidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine.
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“The film includes a wealth of never-before-seen footage, including several unreleased tracks, and dozens of industry interviews as it details Juice WRLD’s struggles to reconcile his meteoric rise to fame with underlying mental health issues and a growing dependency on prescription drugs,” the release says.
The “Lucid Dreams” rapper often included lyrics in his music about drug use, though his mother explained that he did so in order to let listeners who also struggled with addiction know that they are not alone.
A voiceover in the trailer features someone calling Juice WRLD a “therapist for millions of kids,” and an interview with the rapper lends credence to that.
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“You know, you tell whoever that you feel like you got anxiety, you feel like you got depression, they gonna look at you like you crazy,” he says in the trailer. “That’s not how that should be. That’s how it is, and that needs to change. And hopefully I’m one of those people that could bring that change.”
Two years after his death, the rapper still came in at No. 3 on Spotify’s 2021 list of Most Streamed Artists in the U.S., trailing behind onlyDrakeandTaylor Swift.
His first posthumous record,Legends Never Die, topped theBillboard200 albums chart when it came out in 2020, and his second posthumous album, titledFighting Demons, will drop next week.
source: people.com
