Hip-hop woke up to tragic news on Sunday morning when Jarad Higgins, known professionally as Juice Wrld, died after suffering a seizure inside Chicago’s Midway airport late Saturday night. He was 21 years old.

Just days before his passing, the Illinois native went on Instagram to share news that he'd be celebrating his birthday all week. Midway through the celebrations, members of his crew documented the trip into Chicago via Instagram, showing Juice sitting peacefully on a private jet.

Known for his unique marriage of pop-punk melodies with quick-witted bars, Juice Wrld’s profile rose fast once he started posting songs recorded in his bedroom via his cellphone to SoundCloud in 2015. His knack for combining raw emotion with fiery hooks made him one of the first Soundcloud rappers to cross over to the pop mainstream with hits like "All Girls Are the Same," "Lucid Dreams" and "Lean Wit Me."

By the time his debut album, Goodbye & Good Riddance, was released via Interscope in 2018, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Working at a tireless pace for the following year, he continued cementing his position as a young legend with the Future-assisted Wrld On Drugs LP and 2019’s hit-packed Death Race for Love. Juice appears on the cover of XXL Magazine's Fall 2019 issue—his story is a revealing snapshot of his life up until that point.

Dealing frequently with themes of drugs, mental health and mortality in his lyrics, the artist also released the song "Legends" last year to mourn the deaths of his late contemporaries XXXTentacion and Lil Peep. On the track, he delivered the now-eerie bars, "All legends fall in the making/Sorry truth, dying young, demon youth/What's the 27 Club?/We ain't making it past 21."

In celebration of Juice Wrld’s brief-but-impactful career, XXL compiles a list of 20 of the best lyrics the young legend ever spat.—Claudia McNeilly

  • "10 Feet"

    Juice Wrld

    "I feel like hell full of bad bitches/Wonder if it's room in heaven for savages/My life's a canvas, I'm paintin' in blood like a cannibal/Rip off his head and I salvage it, huh/A little too graphic/At least you niggas know that I still got the passion/Of someone who don't got shit, but the clothes on they back/And it's been that way since way back since/Like I'm a killer or somethin"

  • "All Girls Are the Same"

    Juice Wrld

    "I admit it, another ho got me finished/Broke my heart, oh, no, you didn't/Fuck sippin', I'ma down a whole bottle/Hard liquor, hard truth, can't swallow/Need a bartender, put me out my sorrow/Wake up the next day in the Monte Carlo/With a new woman, tell me she from Colorado/And she love women, she'll be gone by tomorrow/ Who am I kiddin'?"

  • "Armed and Dangerous"

    Juice Wrld

    "I'm O.C., three-gram 'Wood full of OG/Give BM dick like Moby gonna make him flash, Adobe/Pay up that cash, you owe me, yeah, huh bitch, I need it/Matter fact, fuck that shit, I'm rich, you can keep it"

  • "Bandit"

    Juice Wrld Featuring YoungBoy Never Broke Again

    "Put the Percs down and picked up the jiggas, jiggas, jiggas/Tommy in the fucking Tommy Hilfiger, 'figer, 'figer/That Tommy hit a nigga, Tommy Hilfiger, fuck niggas/I'm nice, when I'm high off the pills, I'ma fuck with her"

  • "Empty"

    Juice Wrld

    "I ain't suicidal/Only thing suicide is suicide doors/Fight for survival/Gotta keep hope up/Rolling good dope up/Hold my hand, through hell we go/Don't look back, it ain't the past no more/Gonna get to the racks, all them niggas want war/Yeah, I was put here to lead the lost souls/Exhale depression as the wind blows/These are the laws of livin' in vogue"

  • "Fast"

    Juice Wrld

    "I been living fast, fast, fast, fast/Feeling really bad, bad, bad, bad/Time really moves fast, fast, fast, fast/Better hurry up and get in your bag, bag, bag, bag/I wear Dior, not a fad, 'ad, ’ad, 'ad/I know all these niggas gettin' mad, mad, mad, mad/My hand on my trigger, I’ma die with respect, yeah/Fucking with my money, you'll get dealt like that, yeah"

  • "Hate Me"

    Ellie Goulding With Juice Wrld

    "Hate me, hate me, tell me how you hate me/Tell me how I'm trash and you could easily replace me/Tell me that I'm strung out, wasted on the daily/Prolly 'cause there's no one around me numbin' all my pain/Prolly 'cause there's no umbrella to shield me from all the rain/Probably because you're the one playin' the mind games/You hate me because I don't let you play no mind games/They give me migraines and damage my brain/Date me, break me, easily replace me/Hopefully you see it clear, hopefully it's HD"

  • "Hear Me Calling"

    Juice Wrld

    "Wine glass full of your emotions/Oh, Pinot Grigio, sippin', beautiful, heaven-soul woman/He don't know, let me know, let me/In your heart, don't you dare forget me/I'm your fan, yo' posters on my walls inside my head, yeah, yeah/I'm your fan, yo' posters on my walls inside my head, yeah"

  • "Hide"

    Juice Wrld Featuring Seezyn

    "Really think I found my home/Shorty make me feel at home/She made me leave the thrills at home/And I'm fine with it/She really made me lose control/I'ma let my love unfold/We're just two lost souls/But we're fine with it"

  • "I’ll Be Fine"

    Juice Wrld

    "I just popped a bean yesterday, it was a long night/I done did the right drugs, only on the wrong night/I was rocking Off-White, tryna have a fun time/She gon' eat like lunch time, molly got her on time/Fuck niggas don't get respect, but I'ma die about mine/Swervo told me stop popping them Xannies 'fore I flatline"

  • "Lean Wit Me"

    Juice Wrld

    "Told her if I die I'ma die young/Every day I've been gettin' fucked up/Finally know the difference between love and drugs/Shorty tell me I should really sober up/This shit ain't fiction, it's too real, too real/Fuck one dose, I need two pills, two pills/I'm lookin' for trouble so I know I'm gonna find it/Ring, ring, plug hit my phone, perfect timin'"

  • "Legends"

    Juice Wrld

    "What's the 27 Club?/ We ain't making it past 21/I been going through paranoia/So I always gotta keep a gun/Damn, that's the world we live in now/Yeah, hold on, just hear me out/They tell me I'ma be a legend/ I don't want that title now/‘Cause all the legends seem to die out/What the fuck is this 'bout?"

  • "Lucid Dreams"

    Juice Wrld

    "I still see your shadows in my room/Can't take back the love that I gave you/It's to the point where I love and I hate you/And I cannot change you so I must replace you/Easier said than done/I thought you were the one/Listening to my heart instead of my head/You found another one/But I am the better one/I won't let you forget me"

  • "Make It Back"

    Juice Wrld Featuring Future

    "I remember math class, I ain't do shit, I was just Xanned out/Now a nigga got millions, give a fuck about my teachers now/Niggas try to cross me, I crucify 'em like that preacher, oh/All my niggas gettin' money, best believe we spend that on sneakers, oh"

  • "Realer N Realer"

    Future and Juice Wrld

    "Uh, people love to talk about the money that they make/Nobody wanna talk about the money that they save/Who am I to talk about it? I blow money every day/‘Cause I know when you die, you can't take the shit to your grave

  • "Robbery"

    Juice Wrld

    "She told me put my heart in the bag and nobody gets hurt/Now I'm running from her love, I'm not fast so I'm making it worse/Now I'm digging up a grave, from my past, I'm a whole different person/It's a gift and a curse but I cannot reverse it’"

  • "Used To"

    Juice Wrld

    "I been drinkin' and drivin' and survivin'/Take my sorrow and burying me alive in it/Wear your best dress, girl, 'cause you gon' die in it/Bet you regret the day that you lied in it/Crashed the car again, goddamn/Break my heart again, goddamn/I don't have no friends, goddamn/ I'm a loner 'til the end, goddamn"

  • "Rich and Blind"

    Juice Wrld

    "I know I have a purpose, but I don't see the purpose/They tell me the death of me gon' be the Percys/I know they laced pills, I bought them on purpose/Life's unreal when death's uncertain/It's funny how the blessed ones have the most curses"

  • "Without Me"

    Halsey Featuring Juice Wrld

    "Along the lines of social suicide/I refuse to die not by your side/So I'll take what I can from you, then I'll hide/And save the 'Lucid Dreams' for another time/I still hate it when you're not there/I know I should, I know I should, but no, I don't care/I still hate it when you're not there/This life's not fair, took advantage of that"

  • "Won't Let Go"

    Juice Wrld

    "You can bury me with her/And if she die before me, kill me and carry me with her/Know if I die before her, lil' shorty dyin' a widow/Let's not walk down that road/Forever's forever, eternally attached to her soul"

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