Juice WRLD: Into The Abyss
- Episode aired Dec 16, 2021
- TV-MA
- 1h 55m
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An intimate look into the life, and extensive career of the late hip hop star, Jarad Anthony Higgins known professionally as Juice Wrld.An intimate look into the life, and extensive career of the late hip hop star, Jarad Anthony Higgins known professionally as Juice Wrld.An intimate look into the life, and extensive career of the late hip hop star, Jarad Anthony Higgins known professionally as Juice Wrld.
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Don't Do This at Home, Kiddies
This is not a true documentary on Jarad Higgins' life. It's a lot of cinema verite (just camera) shot on stage and in between. You do get an idea of his fame from it, and the song sales listed after every song. But I wanted to know what made him tick, why was he such an addict? Why was he on the road to it, you know, other than he was, like so many, given speed as a kid, for ADHD. With, seemingly a vlog rolling at all times, surely more answers were in there or someone could have asked or not treated these situations as normal. Speak UP, kids.
Hard to watch. Just like the documentary, Amy, about Amy Winehouse, but not near as good, just sad to watch her 'people' suck as much money out of her as they can on the way to her death. Due to the money and fame, no one stops the fatal plunge. I have seen this from inside the biz more than once and it's got to stop; label execs have got to take accountability, managers have to, promoters, assistants, friends, family have to. Oh, but the money! Don't stop the great money train and your access to fame!
Higgins is obviously, more obviously than most, messed up on drugs from the start of this journey. And no one says a word, even the camera guy takes the offered pain pills, even as Higgins is on the heavy nod while snorting more (he was on that road long before the fatal flight). Sounds like his g/f, Ally, tried to give him limits, but she often looked just as messed up, and the crew supplied him behind her back (but she's still giving him an "allowance").
Then someone smuggles 70lbs of weed on the plane, internationally? That's heavy trafficking and all the entourage are so stoned that one guy says, "Oh, he's rich, we'd all get out quick." That's serious smuggling weight, so WTF? Plus, I just read where he was already under suspicion for a previous flight. So you reach amazing success, then somebody thinks this is a good idea to help things along?? Hey, let's make 100th of what you just made last week, and smuggle a lot of dope, while the Feds are watching, that could land us in jail forever!
I am old so yeah, I don't get it (but, I was in the music biz, with drugs, and young once). But why, if he wanted to help his fans and kids reach their potential, is he singing SO MUCH about drugs, taking drugs, which drugs, dying, guns, crime, misogyny? It's just rap subjects per normal. The music will live much longer than he did, and influence longer, alas. Money, money, money. Be a star, get money. Do drugs, do more drugs, get money, hate and use women. I get the rap fads, emo, and all that, but how can you couch that stuff as "helping people"? Some fans will relate to that kind of life, but really, anymore? 'Cause most people don't have all those things, so rap is no longer protest music that speaks to conditions in the community and why it talks about drugs, guns, gangs. It's just silly bragging about all you have now that you've made it. Just normalizing nonsense and trying to be 'legit', have 'creds'. Riiight.. There are always masses of drugs around fame and money. Bad people come around. We thought cocaine was cool and harmless, but that was 50yrs ago. Those naive days are over, we KNOW what hard drugs do, so no excuse. But I get that he was self-medicating, and was on drugs, by a doctor, when young, and perhaps he grew up around the culture of lean (the film doesn't talk about his youth, in any way).
So a barely 21yr old young man dies for nothing, at the height of his success. Then gets a doc which shows him continually way messed up, shows cringeworthy performing in the studio, due to same. "Oh, it's fire!". Yeah, until it isn't. This film fails on every level to address even the slightest issue. I hope all involved realize their part in this tragic death of a talented young man. I see nothing fire about a completely, hopelessly wasted and addicted musician creating (being too high to play guitar is the pinnacle of the cringe). Again, there isn't enough in the film to address the why of what got him there.
Ultimately it was up to Higgins, but someone was supplying all those bottles of lean and the percs, with seeming prescriptions on them, right? Like, true chronic pain patients or sick people can't even get that stuff anymore, and the DEA is always watching. Maybe Higgins did some of his own dr scamming and/or buying from dealers, but come on, he had people to do everything. I understand being young and partying with cool people in the biz, but at some point, you either face the music or end up like this, or one of the numbers in the terrible opiate crisis we are facing more than ever. We didn't have scientific info and statistics on drugs like there are now, just rumor and govvy propaganda. But now you know, if you want to. And you know what to do, or just google it, dang.
Higgins had lots of answers, like being open about mental health and how hard talking about it is in his community (hey, back in the day, it was unheard of to talk about it, period, in any community, and so it continues), but having that money and access, did he ever do anything about his own mental health other than mere talk and swallowing opiates, etc? We don't know, but this doc seems to say "no". He preached about achieving your dreams, but to school kids, just said, "I did the thing that came easiest to me." As if every kid has that kind of talent just sitting around, or should reach for the least difficult path. Yes, you should go for your dreams, but we aren't all Jay-Z. Some of us have to pound the nails and stuff, you know? But we can still reach for the best of ourselves and go for a full and successful life. And I hope that's what Higgins' message becomes, rather than all the usual platitudes of "great humanitarian", "wonderful human being", "inspirational". The truth is, like Kurt Cobain, and the others of the 27, now much earlier, Club, most were end stage addicts or alcoholics and not able to give much useful advice to anyone. You can love their music, and I do, but don't conflate it with how they lived their lives.
Heck, more than enough people of color are being killed on the streets. Why are we adding to that by the slow death by addiction? You can't rise up and fix what's wrong by being high all the time and ignoring the problem. There are a lot of evil people who are counting on that. Counting on people of color doing themselves in for them. Don't fall for it, make a change. This film certainly doesn't add to that dialog, or the positive stuff that can come out, and in that, completely fails Jarad Higgins' legacy, which a sad, sad thing indeed, as it seems like it was made just for the streaming money and to sell his catalogue.
Hard to watch. Just like the documentary, Amy, about Amy Winehouse, but not near as good, just sad to watch her 'people' suck as much money out of her as they can on the way to her death. Due to the money and fame, no one stops the fatal plunge. I have seen this from inside the biz more than once and it's got to stop; label execs have got to take accountability, managers have to, promoters, assistants, friends, family have to. Oh, but the money! Don't stop the great money train and your access to fame!
Higgins is obviously, more obviously than most, messed up on drugs from the start of this journey. And no one says a word, even the camera guy takes the offered pain pills, even as Higgins is on the heavy nod while snorting more (he was on that road long before the fatal flight). Sounds like his g/f, Ally, tried to give him limits, but she often looked just as messed up, and the crew supplied him behind her back (but she's still giving him an "allowance").
Then someone smuggles 70lbs of weed on the plane, internationally? That's heavy trafficking and all the entourage are so stoned that one guy says, "Oh, he's rich, we'd all get out quick." That's serious smuggling weight, so WTF? Plus, I just read where he was already under suspicion for a previous flight. So you reach amazing success, then somebody thinks this is a good idea to help things along?? Hey, let's make 100th of what you just made last week, and smuggle a lot of dope, while the Feds are watching, that could land us in jail forever!
I am old so yeah, I don't get it (but, I was in the music biz, with drugs, and young once). But why, if he wanted to help his fans and kids reach their potential, is he singing SO MUCH about drugs, taking drugs, which drugs, dying, guns, crime, misogyny? It's just rap subjects per normal. The music will live much longer than he did, and influence longer, alas. Money, money, money. Be a star, get money. Do drugs, do more drugs, get money, hate and use women. I get the rap fads, emo, and all that, but how can you couch that stuff as "helping people"? Some fans will relate to that kind of life, but really, anymore? 'Cause most people don't have all those things, so rap is no longer protest music that speaks to conditions in the community and why it talks about drugs, guns, gangs. It's just silly bragging about all you have now that you've made it. Just normalizing nonsense and trying to be 'legit', have 'creds'. Riiight.. There are always masses of drugs around fame and money. Bad people come around. We thought cocaine was cool and harmless, but that was 50yrs ago. Those naive days are over, we KNOW what hard drugs do, so no excuse. But I get that he was self-medicating, and was on drugs, by a doctor, when young, and perhaps he grew up around the culture of lean (the film doesn't talk about his youth, in any way).
So a barely 21yr old young man dies for nothing, at the height of his success. Then gets a doc which shows him continually way messed up, shows cringeworthy performing in the studio, due to same. "Oh, it's fire!". Yeah, until it isn't. This film fails on every level to address even the slightest issue. I hope all involved realize their part in this tragic death of a talented young man. I see nothing fire about a completely, hopelessly wasted and addicted musician creating (being too high to play guitar is the pinnacle of the cringe). Again, there isn't enough in the film to address the why of what got him there.
Ultimately it was up to Higgins, but someone was supplying all those bottles of lean and the percs, with seeming prescriptions on them, right? Like, true chronic pain patients or sick people can't even get that stuff anymore, and the DEA is always watching. Maybe Higgins did some of his own dr scamming and/or buying from dealers, but come on, he had people to do everything. I understand being young and partying with cool people in the biz, but at some point, you either face the music or end up like this, or one of the numbers in the terrible opiate crisis we are facing more than ever. We didn't have scientific info and statistics on drugs like there are now, just rumor and govvy propaganda. But now you know, if you want to. And you know what to do, or just google it, dang.
Higgins had lots of answers, like being open about mental health and how hard talking about it is in his community (hey, back in the day, it was unheard of to talk about it, period, in any community, and so it continues), but having that money and access, did he ever do anything about his own mental health other than mere talk and swallowing opiates, etc? We don't know, but this doc seems to say "no". He preached about achieving your dreams, but to school kids, just said, "I did the thing that came easiest to me." As if every kid has that kind of talent just sitting around, or should reach for the least difficult path. Yes, you should go for your dreams, but we aren't all Jay-Z. Some of us have to pound the nails and stuff, you know? But we can still reach for the best of ourselves and go for a full and successful life. And I hope that's what Higgins' message becomes, rather than all the usual platitudes of "great humanitarian", "wonderful human being", "inspirational". The truth is, like Kurt Cobain, and the others of the 27, now much earlier, Club, most were end stage addicts or alcoholics and not able to give much useful advice to anyone. You can love their music, and I do, but don't conflate it with how they lived their lives.
Heck, more than enough people of color are being killed on the streets. Why are we adding to that by the slow death by addiction? You can't rise up and fix what's wrong by being high all the time and ignoring the problem. There are a lot of evil people who are counting on that. Counting on people of color doing themselves in for them. Don't fall for it, make a change. This film certainly doesn't add to that dialog, or the positive stuff that can come out, and in that, completely fails Jarad Higgins' legacy, which a sad, sad thing indeed, as it seems like it was made just for the streaming money and to sell his catalogue.
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- caramia2002
- Dec 18, 2021
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