He overdosed.

This is from an album that was released after his death. It's an ironic song (as an album opener for a posthumous album), and an introspective one. He's rapping about suffering. He has such a large audience & is rich, but he's still in hell.

Hell is described as a place where you're always thirsty and cry out for God, but there's no light or water (the chorus is him reaching his hands up to god from hell, asking him to water down the percs). It didn't help that he was depressed and grew up/brain developed on pills either.

In the song he describes all of this and says he's burning and crying out for help. While saying this, he looks back on his youth and says he guess God fated him to burn.

He OD'd on the very drugs he talks about in this song (the ironic part), that he got hooked on at like 12 (really not his fault, the sad part), and talks about how he needs to stop but can't and feels like he's in hell (he can feel the pain in his kidneys, he can feel it's killing his liver - if he were to die because of it his mom would never forgive him).

It's honestly a very clear song, especially if you know the artist: https://genius.com/Juice-wrld-burn-lyrics

"Serving as the opening track to his second posthumous album Fighting Demons, “Burn” notes Chicago artist Juice WRLD’s struggle with substance abuse and believing the truth within his reality."

Edit: and it's honestly a shame he died young, as he was a great artist. The words just came to him. He was famous for literally free styling for hours (and not random babble or prewritten bars, but some insanely clever shit - just watch the first ten minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSoT13msPe4

Very few modern rappers are actually talented. He isn't a mumble rapper lol (check out young thug or the Migos 4 that), his style of rapping is called "crooning", he's melodic, although he has many flows. That Eminem song you heard, that was released right after he passed.

Eminem did a song with him out of respect lol. One of the few rappers of the new generation Eminem had respect for.

In fact, that freestyle I linked to is what put him on Eminem's radar. Also, idk who funnied u but it wasn't me. Sry.