Recently, Birdman and Lil Wayne cohort Mack Maine released a mixtape, Billionaire Minds, which you can download here. You can also get Birdman’s collaboration with Bun B – who’s coming to the Howlin’ Wolf Friday, December 2 – on Scarface’s “Money and the Power,” which will be included on the Rap-a-Lot Records box set, which [...]
Tag Archives: Juvenile
Get to Know Your “Certified” Emcees
August 25, 2010 – 12:08 pm
New Orleans may be the birthplace of jazz, but rap and hip-hop are our city’s most popular mainstream musical exports. Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Mystikal, Master P, Mannie Fresh, B.G., Jay Electronica, Curren$y and other heavy hitters are innovators and leaders in the national hip-hop community, known far beyond the Crescent City limits. Tonight, Supreme Street [...]
Juvenile, Beast Mode (E1 Entertainment)
August 1, 2010 – 12:45 am
Juvenile’s Beast Mode sounds like the name of a summer blockbuster. And like an action-packed mega-hit movie, the album is heavy on big explosions and light on substance. The explosions come in the form of trunk-rattling bass and highpowered synths. Juvenile, who carved his name in hip-hop lore with a gritty debut album that put [...]
YouTube du Jour: Mos Def
May 13, 2010 – 9:37 am
Mos Def will take part in Gulf Aid Sunday at Mardi Gras World River City on the Uptown side of the Convention Center. Here he samples Juvenile’s “Nolia Clap” for “Katrina Klap (Dollar Day),” his outraged take on the government’s slow response to post-K flooding.
A Sense of Place
April 8, 2010 – 8:03 am
I’m reading Harold Battiste’s autobiography, Unfinished Blues, and he writes about growing up across the street from the Dew Drop Inn. Yesterday as I drove by the Dew Drop on my way to work, that knowledge made the neighborhood seem a little more alive with possibility. How many other musicians lived within 10 or so [...]
B.G.
January 14, 2010 – 9:44 am
Throughout the late ’90s the Hot Boys set Louisiana and the rest of the nation on fire. Standout members such as Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, and Lil Wayne would all experience major success, but B.G. helped cement the group with the mega-hits “Bling Bling” and “Get Your Shine On”. Since departing from Cash Money Records several [...]
DJ Jubilee
September 1, 2000 – 12:01 am
Perhaps the Crescent City’s best kept music secret, Jubilee (Jerome Temple) exploded onto the local arena with his 1993 debut hit single “Do the Jubilee All.” Since then, he’s recorded four astounding CDs, the most recent being Get Ready, Ready!, which have earned him the regal title “The King of Bounce.” Master of call-and-response, hip-shaking [...]
Master P, Kane & Abel and Cash Money Records
February 1, 1997 – 12:01 am
Thanks to the help of director Moon Jones, rappers like Master P and Kane & Abel are making the transition from music to film. Jones, who was born in New Orleans and later moved to Los Angeles, wrote and directed the movie I’m Bout It—a comedy drama filmed in New Orleans starring Master P. Master [...]
