“That wasn’t normal.” Asked if learning about Basquiat’s death triggered a fear of his own mortality, he said, “Every now and then I have concerns,” reportedly revealing that he planned on undergoing a detox in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles. In an interview at a cemetery with The New York Times in April of this year, the rapper came upon the grave of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, the graffiti-artist-turned-painter who he said he wasn’t aware died of a heroin overdose at age 27 in 1988. “When I was getting high at a young age, I’d be scared to tell people,” he said. “Call my doctor to handle my pain/ Perky’s taking my life away” “I don’t sell drugs, I cop ’em ( I got drugs, gotta cop ’em)… I’m on two perks again/ Something don’t feel right/ But this shit real right, slatt/ This shit real right? Uh/ This that pure white crack… Codeine in my sippy cup/ I chug it, don’t sip a lot/ Your bitch on my dick a lot/ I guess that’s not your bitch, uh/ Funny, laughing to the bank, and it’s, funny/ Perky in my brain I’m a junkie” You just got to face it and get rid of it.” Since 2000, several rappers - including DJ Screw, Big Moe Pimp C and Fredo Santana - have died of suspected lean-related causes. “I look at that stuff like cigarettes, bro. The rapper’s death comes after a meteoric rise during which he frequently referenced his illicit drug taking, including a previously unpublished quote from a 2018 interview with Billboard in which he said, “Yeah, for sure, that’s like a horrible habit, man,” of his self-described addiction to “lean,” prescription promethazine cough syrup that can be deadly if abused. 40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets two guards traveling with Juice WRLD were later arrested on gun charges. A search of the plane reportedly turned up 31 vacuum-sealed bags of pot, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9mm pistols, a. Spokespeople for Higgins had not returned requests for comment on the cause of death at press time. Two doses of Narcan were administered at the scene and Higgins woke up but was reportedly incoherent before being taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead an hour after the flight from Los Angeles landed the Tribune reported that an opioid ovedose is suspected, but no official cause of death had been announced at press time.