Juice wrld rip

I always thought he was so full of potential, shame to see him go so young. Lucid Dreams seems too on the nose to hear as his biggest hit right now.

seriously disturbing how many of these rap stars are dying so young

Yeah I just saw someone say the Mount Rushmore of emo rap are already dead and even though I’ve never been too big in the scene, it made me quite sad to think, well, yeah

the only soundcloud megastar to avoid a) death, or b) committing terrible crimes is lil uzi, and he is tied up in a messed up label situation that's prevented him from following up his 2017 album

horrifying

rip juice. so sad how often this is happening lately to young talented rising artists. 🖤

— nope (@LilNasX) December 8, 2019

i usually deal with my sad times in private because i don’t like for my fans or family to feel sorry for me. this year had a lot of very high ups and extremely low downs. when u get to that hotel room and it’s just you, you do a lot of thinking. small things become so BIG.

— nope (@LilNasX) December 8, 2019

i like to pretend hate and shit don’t get to me, but subconsciously it eats away at me. feeling like u have the world and knowing it can all go away at any time is scary. with all this being said i want anybody who cared enough to read this to just live in the moment. love u guys

— nope (@LilNasX) December 8, 2019

musicians(/artists) have been overdosing since the beginning of time... i think some of the more histrionic takes right now are a little myopic. but anyone who knows solo touring musicians knows that it puts your mental health in a very precarious place, even if you're a mature adult with a decent support system in place. one thing i do think you can say about this era is that when touring/club appearances are the way to make money bcuz the monetary value of the music has hit rock bottom, artists are being incentivized to travel the world nonstop to squeeze money out while they're hot. (there's also a social media/clout aspect to living and documenting this kind of lifestyle.) avicii wasn't an emo rapper but his story seems just as pertinent to me.

agreed re: avicii

the older I get, it's just so heartbreaking knowing how young they are, who knows where they would have gone? either musically or just found another path in life outside the industry

21 is insanely young. i am 9 years older than that and i have grown so much in that time. this is fucked.

recreational drugs are trash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoMkgbGDXxQ

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-juice-wrld-guards-arrested-20191209-sfhqe3cns5hsffhxskrhqfagl4-story.html

The search turned up 41 “vacuum-sealed” bags of marijuana, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9 mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets, according to the law enforcement sources. Two men identified by police as working security for Higgins were charged with illegally possessing the guns and ammunition.

Kids today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIzgiclddlM

what's the 27 club / we ain't makin' it past 21

along with a few of his biggest hits, one of his tracks to be inevitably rocketing up the streaming charts in the immediate aftermath of the young artist's death as fans (and curious non-fans) look for significance or premonition in his words and output while he was alive

the most horrendous "kids today"-inducing moment i witnessed was an ellie goulding st*n account on twitter celebrating that her song "hate me", a collaboration with juice, would now be seeing a new peak on the charts

https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/juice-wrld-death-loss-of-another-rap-generation.html

it's weird to me to see pieces like this lamenting the narratives around drug use, death, criminality, marginalized communities etc and not a single word about the self-perpetuating and deeply embedded industry and audience dynamic centered around "authenticity" and, by extension, artists' suffering. No discussion about how audiences require artists to race-to-the-bottom to embody "realness", that desire to alternately live vicariously or see your own struggles reflected in artists and their work, acting as an extra incentive for artists to dive headlong into living out self-destructive, stereotypical behavior - to be the most "real" depressed, drug addicted, delusional criminal possible. Like how do you talk about these artists and *not* acknowledge that the narrative hook that gets them attention is how "dangerous" or damaged they are, that that is what their selling point is in the market.... I'm not assigning blame here or anything, it's a fucked up dynamic, it just seems strange to not acknowledge it.

and of course black artists have always been marketed as "dangerous" in American culture, the racial angle here cannot be overstated - black artists are economically incentivized to play into this dynamic, which can come at great personal cost

big pharma probably loves this dynamic

they totally do, it's been working gangbusters for them since the... 50s?

I mean, Johnny Cash springs to mind...

I don't think it's any coincidence that the switch from booze/weed (and occasionally coke and sizzurp) to these way more dangerous and addictive substances coincided with Clinton-era deregulation of the pharma industry.

Just annoying that that article emphasizes how we need to talk about the big picture and then totally misses the bigger picture, which is m/l late-capitalist corporate culture literally feeding on young black people.

And Tom Petty.

counterpoint: Prince

(the two recent deaths I regularly mourn the most tbh. I am old)

i mean people were doing heroin and crack before that

young people do less drugs than they used to funnily enough. the majority of drug deaths are in the 30-60 age range or thereabouts. problem is these soundcloud rappers are literally doing fentanyl, benzos and drinking which is just a great way to stop your heart.

sure. but it wasn't Pfizer making money off that.

xp

Yeah, it was the CIA, iirc.

lil nas x's posts on this are very heavy to me. I room with my TM precisely because if shit gets gnarly inside my skull, having another human being in the room takes enough of the edge off & provides a potential voice of sanity. guys who get enough money to always be in the room by themselves are often gonna be in bad company.

TM?

tourmates?

tour manager, I imagine...

tour manager is correct.

can you guys tell I have never toured lol

if I read this right, you can audition to go on the road with Bad Company right now!

I've been hearing so much Bad Company on the radio lately, multiple stations, I just assumed someone in the band died.

wuh oh

really though Joan sounded very otm

(another non tourer here)

good post Οὖτις

the hbo doc was good

had the thought this and the lil peep doc should be shown to teens to show the danger of drugs in excess but honestly they prob still make all leading up to dying look too cool