Juvenile Discography

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  Reality Check
  (2006)
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  Juve The Great
  (2003)
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  A Machine`s Dream
  (2003)
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  Project English
  (2001)
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  Tha G-Code
  (1999)
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  Solja Rags
  (1999)
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  400 Degreez
  (1998)
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  Being Myself
• 
  The Greatest Hits

Related Artists

Songs By

Peter Dorsey

Member Of

Hot Boys

Influenced By

Notorious B.I.G. :: Scarface :: Too Short :: 8Ball & MJG :: NWA :: Tupac Shakur

Followers

MVP :: Youngbloodz :: Murphy Lee

Similar Artists

Dré :: Michael Bolton :: Eightball :: Gangsta Pat :: Lil Scrappy :: Lil Boosie :: K-Ci & Jojo :: The Game :: 50 Cent :: Andrea Bocelli :: Big Boi :: Juelz Santana :: Lil Wayne :: T.i Harris :: Mystikal :: Trick Daddy :: Big Tymers :: UTP Playas

See also Biography Index (J) :: Filmography Index (J) :: Discography Index (J)

After beginning his rap performing career in his teenage years, Juvenile released his first album Being Myself in 1995, giving way to the southern "bounce" rap style, similar in nature to the sound that Master P and No Limit Records was performing at the time.[2] In 1997, Solja Rags, Juvenile`s debut with Cash Money Records, became popular among underground rap audiences.[1] Thus, Juvenile`s next album 400 Degreez was released in 1998 with joint distribution by Universal Records, spawning his first single "Ha" and later "Back That Azz Up", both of which topped the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts.[3] However, there came a dispute over who owned the rights to the title of the song, as another New Orleans performer DJ Jubilee claimed that Juvenile`s song sounded very similar to a song of his. In January 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans denied the case.[4]

In 1999, capitalizing off Juvenile`s popularity off 400 Degreez, a remixed version of Being Myself and reissue of Solja Rags were released.[1] Two more albums under Cash Money were released, Tha G-Code in 1999 and Project English in 2001. Juvenile left Cash Money Records in 2002 to join a new label UTP Records.[1] In the summer of that year, he was arrested for assaulting his barber over charges that the barber was bootlegging his music.[5]

In January 2003, he was arrested in New Orleans on drug charges.[6] The next month, he was sentenced to 75 hours of community service for a fight outside a nightclub in Miami, Florida from 2001.[7] Juvenile returned to Cash Money in 2003 to release Juve the Great. It contained the number-one hit "Slow Motion" featuring Soulja Slim, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart on the week of August 7, 2004[8], being the first number-one hit for both Juvenile and Slim[3], who died in November 2003.[9]

In 2005, Juvenile and his UTP crew went on to create the hit song "Nolia Clap", and Juvenile was able to use this as leverage in getting a new deal for himself and UTP at Atlantic Records.[1] In June of that year, he performed his song "Booty Language" from the soundtrack to the film Hustle and Flow at a party in West Hollywood, California.[10] However, Juvenile`s Slidell, Louisiana home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina near the end of the summer.[1] In the aftermath of the hurricane, he worked with fellow New Orleans rapper Master P and other hip hop artists to raise funds and supplies for the victims of the hurricane.[11] Thus, he moved to Atlanta to live until the spring of 2006, when he moved back to New Orleans.[12]

In 2006, Juvenile`s album Reality Check debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, being his first number-one album.[13] Production began in May 2005, most of it being done at a Holiday Inn hotel room in New Orleans.[14] Its first single was "Animal", followed by "Rodeo", "Get Ya Hustle On", "What`s Happenin`", and "Way I Be Leanin`" featuring Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Skip, and Wacko.[3] On signing to Atlantic, Juvenile criticized his former label Cash Money for not giving him enough creative freedoms as well as FEMA over his perceptions over their handling of Hurricane Katrina. Shaheem Reid noted "Get Ya Hustle On" as a criticism of the George W. Bush administration.[15]

On February 12, 2008, he was arrested in the state of Mississippi for possession of marijuana