Juice WRLD was born Jarad Higgins on December 2, 1998, in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up playing piano, drums, and guitar before turning to rap in high school. After being encouraged by his friend to pursue music, Higgins uploaded his first song, Forever,” on SoundCloud in 2015, when he was still a high school freshman. Even though he already released his first song during freshman year, he only started taking rapping seriously in his high school sophomore year.