Rising rap star Juice WRLD died early Sunday after suffering a medical emergency at Chicago's Midway Airport, according to reports. He was 21.

The rapper's death, which took place in Illinois, was confirmed by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office in an email to Fox News.

"The Medical Examiner's Office has been notified of the death of Jarad A. Higgins, a 21-year-old black male of the 18500 block of Pierce Terrace in Homewood Illinois," Natalia Derevyanny, spokeswoman for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said in an email to Fox News.

In a subsequent email Derevyanny said the autopsy would be performed Monday. She also said the rapper was pronounced dead at a hospital in Oak Lawn at 3:14 a.m.

The statement referred to Juice WRLD by his real name, Jarad A. Higgins, and did not reveal a cause of death, but TMZ reports that the musician had a seizure in the Chicago airport.