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Posted by Dave
Rap News Network
6/28/2005 9:22:19 AM
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Rapper Juvenile, whose real name is Terius Gray, hailing from New Orleans, came up in the music world with 3grand, Cash Money records and the Hot Boys, and on his own. He's on to bigger and better things all the time. He's a pioneering Southern rapper who helped put New Orleans on the hip-hop map. With hits like "Ha," "Back That Thang Up" and "Slow Motion" everyone knows Juvenile. InsideHoops.com editor Jeff Lenchiner presents an exclusive Juvenile interview. Enjoy:
InsideHoops.com: What music did you listen to when you were younger?
Juvenile: Hey man, everything, you name it. If my daddy played it, I was down with it. We listened to a lot of Kool and the Gang... whatever was popular back then, in the 70's. I was born in '75, so, I kind of grew up in the background of music. My family, that's all we had. That was pretty much what we were. We didn't have all the entertainment things that they have out there right now. Music was the way. I listened to everything. Especially if they had rap songs coming out. I was starving for it.
InsideHoops.com: Talk about bounce, the style, the feeling, the evolution of it and everything.
Juvenile: I have to send a rest in peace shoutout to a guy named Everlasting Hitman, because he had a lot to do with it, because he was in my era... We was like, the cats that made the cds, the cassette tapes, and went out to clubs and put had them in a bag and sold them for $10 apiece right there in front of the clubs, just like that. And that's how bounce started. It basically was music that was done in the club, came up with it right then and there, everyone was in that room, ready to hear the fire-line and shake-through, you just think of it and you go with it. We tried to start fights, as much as possible.
InsideHoops.com: And a zillion years ago, you did stuff with DJ Jimi. How'd that work and what came from it?
Juvenile: Yeah. I was really a writer. I was basically writing the songs for him. He'd come, they knew I was good, but I was too young. That was the case. So they had him, he was really their forefront man and they wanted me to write for him. So I wrote for him, and they let me do a song on his album, and what happened was, the song and and everything blew. It blew bigger than what I had anticipated. They started playing my song that was on that album, Bounce with a Juvenile on the radio. That kind of started the bounce era, to real big things, because that song played and played, and that was like the biggest bounce record.
InsideHoops.com: Now on to Cash Money records. What I had heard is that they intially liked you, and then you worked really hard to win them over and get them to go after you, and it worked and they grabbed you. But I wasn't sure how accurate that really was.
Juvenile: Well, that's not really how it went. I never was really... You know what it was, I was around when Cash Money first started. So they got really their first artist, I really did a few things with them. Like UNLV, I was all in working from them. And we was from the same area, you know what I'm saying? It was like, I watched their company get set up. They had, back in those days, they had Pimp Daddy, UNLV, they had Keelo -- I think his name was Keelo, if I ain't mistaken -- I basically was doing my thing with them when they was [building] Cash Money, so me dealing with Cash Money was really going backwards. Cash Money basically came to me, because I was winning all the contests that were going on. And every week in the House of Blues they had a little freestyle content, around the projects they had freestyle contests, and I was winning most of them. And that's what got them coming back for me. And when Baby (Williams) had UNLV, I met him through Ya Fat, one of the artists that they had back then. The relationship between me and them, it was like, I know ya'll, and I might mess with ya'll, when things wasn't going right for me, and it looked like it wa
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