Juvenile's - Biography - Rap - http://maxpages.com/allaboutfawne/Juveniles

New Orleans' rap veteran of more then a decade, Juvenile has come a long way from the Magnolia Projects in New Orleans Uptown region. At age 4, like most kids in the getto, Terius Gray (Juvenile's real name)his father left when he was very young. He would later form a group called UPT, which he later had tatooed on his stomach.

Juvenile's career started out in the rap trio 3Grand. In 1995 he went solo and joined the war Lock Record Label. In Febrary of 1995 he first solo album, Being Myself, was released. After his new found popularity, War Lock Records re-released the album in May of 1998. The orginal cover had a tagged up wall. The later release has Juvenile in a tub full of money.

Real success came after Juvenile met up with 2 brothers, Ronal "Suga" Slim and Brian"Baby" Williams from Cash Money Records. His first release with Cash Money Records, Solja Rag, quickly became an underground hit by selling over 200,000 copies. The album success lead to Juvenile's new group The Hot Boys to release thir first album, Get It How You Live, in October of 1997. It soon sold over 400,000 albums. Their lastest album, Gurrilla Warfare, released in July of 1998. Is expected to surpass that mark.

Cash Money Records, a division of Universal records, release thgeir top selling album 400 degrez in June of 1998. With video & radio such as "Ha" and "Back that ass up". Juvenile has enjoyed being on Billboard top 200cd for over 45 weeks.

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