Juice Wrld

Juice WRLD, who is 19, was unfazed. He was wearing a stitched-together shirt with characters from “The Flintstones” and “Family Guy” and ostentatiously drapey sleeves and had a Gucci satchel slung around his neck. He plugged his phone in to the speakers and began playing some new songs, ones with less conventional structure than the music he’s been getting attention for lately.

“It’s using the song as your canvas, not just a blueprint,” he said. - The New York Times

He went from unknown Illinois teen to Billboard-topping emo-rap icon in under a year, and his introspective, genre-mashing music draws on both Nirvana and Migos, offering up admirably honest rhymes about mental health, drugs and heartbreak. 20-year-old Juice WRLD, a self-proclaimed “old soul”, tells Jordan Bassett about his love of mid-noughties emo, his relationship with XXXTentacion, sharing royalties with Sting and disastrous shows with Nicki Minaj. - NME

Some artists record a dozen songs and release an album with all of them, ensuring each one is perfect. Most well-known musicians will record two or three times as many tracks as are featured on a new full-length, always keeping lesser tunes in the vault. Hip-hop powerhouse Juice WRLD puts them all to shame, as he has hundreds of pieces of music that may never see the light of day...and that’s on top of the massive number of cuts he does share. - Forbes

Nineteen-year-old rapper Juice WRLD caught up with Billboard to discuss breaking into the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 with "Lucid Dreams" and some of his inspirations in music. - billboard