Chicago, United States
The rapper Juice WRLD died of an accidental opioid overdose, a Chicago coroner said Wednesday, a month after the rising star suffered an epileptic attack at one of the city’s airports.
“The kind of death is accidental“The Cook County Legal Medicine Office said in the report on the 21-year-old artist, whose real name was Jarad Higgins.
“The office determined that Higgins died as a result of toxicity of oxycodone and codeine,” powerful analgesics from the same family of drugs as morphine and heroin.
Before your death, the authorities were at the Midway airport waiting for the singer’s private plane to land, to requisition him on suspicion that he was smuggling, according to press releases. They found drugs, weapons and ammunition.
When the artist began to suffer seizures, an agent of the FBI He was given two doses of Narcan, a medication used in emergency situations, when the patient is suspected of having an opioid overdose, The Chicago Tribune newspaper reported.
The Narcan made the rapper wake up, although his behavior was incoherent.
The musician was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, approximately one hour after landing.
Juice WRLD He is the last in a series of famous musicians who have died from opioid overdoses, including Prince and Tom Petty.
His rap partner, Lil Peep, suffered a overdose accidental of fentanyl and Xanax in 2017.
Both he and Juice WRLD They belonged to a generation known as the “SoundCloud rappers,” a subgenre that takes its name from the streaming platform where its artists found fame.
His music is presented as part of a disruptive hip-hop movement, combining an underground lo-fi (low fidelity) sound with raw and heartbreaking lyrics, which has led some to call them “emo rappers.”
These musicians, whose careers are built thanks to the internet, often rap about the massive consumption of pills, in particular the Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication.
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