Lil Uzi Vert

A new moment in the developing story of artificial intelligence being used in making music. Complex reports about fans of Lil Uzi Vert and Juice WRLD making full songs out of snippets recorded by the two artists, all made with the help of AI, and of course knowledge about how to use exciting new tool. Fans had taken low-quality snippets they found on the internet - mostly Instagram and Snaphat - and used AI technology to turn them into full songs with much higher audio quality. Songs went viral on Twitter.

The late Juice WRLD is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 1 as 'Legends Never Die' debuts with a total of 497,000 equivalent album units, capturing the largest week of 2020 for any album. The set also registers the largest streaming week of 2020 with 238,000 streaming equivalent album units - equating to 422.63 million on-demand streams for the album tracks. 209,000 are in album sales and 3,000 are in track equivalent album units. It’s Juice WRLD’s first release since his death on Dec. 8, 2019.

Dead, but still living...
July 19, 2020

Juice WRLD scores posthumous number one album in the UK

US rapper Juice WRLD has topped the UK album charts, seven months after his death at the age of 21, caused by an accidental overdose. The star racked up 22,500 chart sales of 'Legends Never Die' this week, 97% of which came from streams, UK Official Albums Chart reports. Juice WRLD's 'Legends...' is the first posthumous number one since a re-release of George Michael's 'Listen Without Prejudice' in October 2017.

Young hearts
February 01, 2020

Why is a generation of rappers dying young?

Many young rappers have died in the past few years. Mac Miller died in 2018 aged 26 of a cocaine-fentanyl overdose, Lil Peep died at 21 in 2017 of accidental fentanyl and Xanax overdose. Juice WRLD died late last year after a drug-induced seizure. XXXTentacion was killed in 2018 aged 20 in a robbery. In March 2019, Nipsey Hussle was shot dead outside his Los Angeles clothing store. What can be done to stop this?

Police say they found guns and drugs on the private jet that carried rapper Juice Wrld to Chicago before he died on Sunday morning. Officers say they found 70 pounds (31 kilos) of marijuana in 41 "vacuum-sealed" bags, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9 mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition […]

American rapper Juice WRLD has died suddenly at the age of 21, TMZ reports. Juice WRLD, a.k.a. Jarad Anthony Higgins, had arrived at Chicago's Midway Airport on Sunday following a flight from Los Angeles and suffered a seizure in the terminal. He was alive when paramedics arrived on the scene but was pronounced dead at a local […]

California rapper Juice WRLD opened at Number One on the Billboard 200 with his second album 'Death Race for Love'. The album has sold 165,000 total copies in its first week of release, including 120,000 streaming equivalent albums (SEAs), to give Juice WRLD his first Number One album after two separate trips to the Top […]