My father wasn’t in my life like that.”Ĥ. He said, “What do you expect if I’m a young dude that really loves music, really looks up to these artists? I didn’t have a man giving me no type of guidance. In an interview with Billboard in March 2019, Higgins suggested that his lack of a father figure could have influenced his struggles with addiction. He concluded, “My mom’s pretty much been single parent-type sh*t.”
I wasn’t in the same place for too long… My mom, she’s been in my life the whole time, my dad would jump in and out every now and then. In an interview on No Jumper (as seen above), he said, “I moved around a lot. Higgins repeatedly said that he was raised primarily by his mother in a number of interviews. Enjoy! - CHECK OUT OUR NEW ONLINE STORE!!! /store SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on Soundcloud: /nojumper and iTunes: /us/podcast/no-jumper/id1001659715?mt=2… T19:20:01.000Z We got him in the studio to talk about his come up, his influences and much more. Juice Wrld Exposed! Juice Wrld is a young rapper from Chicago who is currently blowing up. Juice WRLD’s Mother Influenced His Musical Preferences by Not Letting Him Listen to Rap Yeah because I miss the food I miss my mom a lot.”Ģ.
Shortly after those comments, Higgins was asked whether he missed Chicago and replied, “Yeah and no. What am I doing taking Vyvanse and Ritalin? How is a fifth-grader supposed to act?” “And I looked back at it and I’m like, Wow, that was not okay. “I was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder in fifth grade, and my mom put me on Ritalin, Vyvanse, all of that,” he said. To Vulture, he talked about how he believed mental health was “neglected in the black community,” pointing out his own childhood as an example. Though Higgins mostly praised his mother in every interview he gave, he was also a bit critical of how she raised him in certain respects. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1998, Higgins moved to Homewood, Illinois, in 1999 and would spend a majority of his childhood moving around to different places in the area. According to a profile of Higgins in The Gulf-Times, his parents divorced when he was three years old.