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He turned 21 less than a week ago.
He grew up in a single-parent household with his mother, who initially forbade rap music.
Music was Trojan-horsed into his house through video games and older cousins pop-punkandCash Money, respectively.
His breakthrough single, Lucid Dreams, is typical of his work.
Later in the song, Higgins describes his ex as made outa plastic fake.
That bleeding-heart earnestness, though, was a feature, not a bug, in his work.
He had contemporaries like the emo rockindebted Long Island nativeLil PeepandXXXTentacion, the notorious rapper from Miami.
They were 21 and 20 years old, respectively.
Last year, Higgins put out a two-song EP dedicated to the memory of Peep and X.
One verse from that project opens: Whats the 27 club?
We aint making it past 21.
Future was crestfallen: What the fuck have I done?
; Higgins hadpreviously told Vulturethat Future apologized to him.)
It was of a woman falling off of a waterslide.
The clip ended, he laughed, and asked: You know how you see somebody fall, right?
And you think the injurys not that bad until you see them bleeding?
