Juvenile Interview - New Album Boiling Point, His Side Hustles

With over 30 years within the rap recreation, most of which have been spent with the Money Cash Data military, Juvenile is a seasoned veteran. The 50-year-old rapper remains to be within the discipline. Having reinvigorated his profession with a viral Tiny Desk efficiency final yr, the New Orleans legend is again on on the highway together with his Money Cash brethren on a reunion tour, pushing his new single “Scorching Boy Summer season” that includes B.G., Jacquees and Trombone Shorty, and prepping the brand new album Boiling Scorching. Juvie hyperlinks up with XXL to debate the brand new mission, his legacy, touring, his numerous aspect hustles and extra.

As an integral a part of Money Cash’s rise to nationwide prominence within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, Juivie has loads of pins on his lapel, together with a Billboard-topping single, three platinum albums—1998’s 400 Degreez, 1999’s The G Code and 2001’s Juvie The Nice—and one of the vital infectious membership anthems of all time. Juvie is bringing the enjoyable again together with his new single, “Scorching Boy Summer season.” The rhymer’s monitor remembers the golden days of the “sizzling boy” and “sizzling lady” motion that Money Cash began within the Nineteen Nineties.

“The entire sizzling boy factor, we began that years in the past,” Juvie says. “Shout-out to [Megan Thee Stallion] for exhibiting it love, however she bought to all the time present like to the originators.”

As an MC who has been by way of a number of waves of hip-hop, a style which is now seeing extra older rappers reign because the best-selling artists, Juvie is settling into his function as an elder statesmen. “There isn’t any age on it,” Juvie says. “Music is ageless. It do not matter how previous you might be. I believe with the age, it extra of a glance factor than a expertise factor.”

Amid touring and operating a number of enterprise ventures, Juvie is prepping his first solo album in 11 years, Boiling Level. “I am going so many songs,” Juvie says. “A lot music. A lot materials. It is to that time the place it is about to boil over. My final massive album was 400 Levels. I wished this album to go with 400 Degreez.”

Try Juvenile’s unique interview with XXL the place he opens up additional about his new album, reuniting with the Scorching Boys on tour, aspect hustles, his music’s enduring legacy and extra beneath.