Juice WRLD is coming off the success of last year’sGoodbye & Good Riddance, whose single“Lucid Dreams”led him to become the next star of the genre occasionally known as emo-rap. His music combines several potent strains of teen alienation genres, recalling nothing so much as nu-metal. I...
A year ago, Juice WRLD could hardly have related to this scenario. The artist born Jarad Higgins was bouncing around Chicago’s south suburbs with his single mother, uploading moody raps about drugs and heartbreak to SoundCloud and feeling a bit guilty about not going to college. For a while...