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- December 8th, 2019, Juice WRLD,
One of generation Z's biggest music stars,
died in Chicago's airport under suspicious circumstances.
In this episode,
we're gonna show you why and how he really died.
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Juice WRLD's career was a flash.
In just two years, he went from a SoundCloud phenom
to one of hip-hop's most vivid artists,
alongside Lil Peep and XXXTentacion.
In a way, their path was similar.
Same genre, same meteoric rise to fame,
and death at a young age.
The trio formed the so-called 21 Club,
a group of musicians who passed at or before the age of 21.
Peep died from an accidental overdose in 2017.
X was fatally shot in an armed robbery in 2018.
So what happened with Juice?
Oh, there's a story.
"My music is my form of catharsis.
My pain, my struggles, I'm turning myself inside out."
As Juice was going through his childhood and adolescence,
he was dealing with depression.
The root cause of it was
in the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD
that he had been diagnosed with in fourth grade.
The hyperactive kid had trouble keeping focus
or staying seated.
As you can imagine, with those qualities,
he wasn't doing particularly great at school.
Add to that, the peer pressure and troubled social skills,
and you get the recipe for adolescent depression.
Thinking he would find his relief in drugs,
young Juice started experimenting with them.
Oh, how wrong he was.
Long story short, his substance abuse began
when he was 12 years old.
And by the age of 19,
Juice found himself operating on drugs,
yet his depression went nowhere.
And then the crazy fame happened
and Juice quickly discovered
that money wasn't the answer either.
All it did was provide quicker access
to for forbidden substances,
and Juice's drug use was getting worse.
At 8:25 PM Pacific Time on December 7th,
Juice WRLD, his friends and entourage boarded
the Gulfstream G-1159A,
that would take them from LA to Chicago.
Juice was holding a mega party
to celebrate his 21st birthday in his hometown.
The private jet was loaded with 70 pounds of marijuana,
three guns, six bottles of codeine.
Well, indeed, Juice was planning a "Mega party."
Easy flight, great service, good company.
Everything seemed to be going well,
until about 25 minutes to touchdown,
when everyone on the plane got a text message
to the group chat,
"Cops are here, they have a dog."
"Oh, shit. No way."
"What? Oh my God, they're gonna find our stuff."
"We're doomed."
Remember, these guys were carrying 70 pounds of marijuana
in their luggage.
They had guns, other drugs.
They knew they'd get in trouble, no doubt.
An FBI task force with drug sniffing dogs
was there to meet and greet Juice and his team
at the airport upon landing.
Apparently, Juice WRLD had been on the Fed's radar
since November of 2019.
Officials were alerted about
a group of VIP passengers traveling with weapons
and drugs on board, likely by the plane crew.
Right after the plane had landed
at around 1:30 AM Central Time,
all passengers were invited to the first-class lobby
and the officials started the luggage search.
The drug sniffing dog made a positive alert on two bags,
and right at that moment,
Juice WRLD led out a gasp and collapsed to the ground.
He was having a seizure.
By the time paramedics arrived on scene at around 2:00 AM
the rapper was unconscious on the floor
bleeding from his nose and mouth.
He would be pronounced dead about an hour later.
The cause of death, accidental overdose.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
How could that be the case?
We know that Juice spent the last four hours on the plane.
No one had any concerns about his condition
or noticed anything unusual in his behavior
while they were in the air.
So, when exactly did he take the fatal dose?
There are two possible scenarios.
The first scenario is a simple one.
It could be the case that a cumulative effect
of all the drugs he did that day
resulted in the seizure and cardiac arrest.
According to this version, it was merely a coincidence
that the seizure occurred at the airport
while cops were searching the luggage.
The second scenario is a bit more dramatic,
as Juice and his entourage were getting ready
to get searched,
Juice checked his pockets and realized
that he had a bunch of Percocet pills in them.
So he grabbed a handful of pills from his pockets
and put them in his mouth while no one
was paying close attention to him.
There's no doubt that Juice WRLD
had already been high before the flight,
so now he just added an extra dose, the fatal one.
Minutes later, his body reacted to it, and an hour later,
Juice WRLD died.
This scenario is indirectly supported by the report filed
by the paramedics of the Chicago Fire Department
stating that they saw pills scattered around Juice.
Which scenario do we find more plausible?
Hmm, we believe that Juice WRLD struggles
with depression were real,
death, unfortunate, but yet, totally avoidable.
He passed the point of no return
and he couldn't quit doing drugs himself
but had Juice WRLD chosen to get professional help,
he would've gotten the chance to spend
way more time in the world he wanted to take over so badly.
This is the story of Juice WRLD's Death.
This is how it was.
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