Hot Boys
Juvenile, B.G., Lil Wayne and Turk—the Cash Money group that carried years of New Orleans development into the label’s national breakthrough.
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The Hot Boys were not Cash Money’s first generation. By the time Juvenile, B.G., Lil Wayne and Turk came together in 1997, the label had already spent years releasing New Orleans artists and developing its sound around Mannie Fresh. B.G. and Wayne had even recorded together as the B.G.’z. That makes the Hot Boys a meeting point: Juvenile’s established New Orleans voice, two teenagers who had grown inside Cash Money, Turk’s Magnolia perspective and Mannie Fresh’s production all landing in one group just before the company moved to a much larger stage.
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Before Cash Money became a national dynasty, B.G. was one of the teenage voices growing up inside the label—and one half of the B.G.’z with a young Lil Wayne.
Before New Orleans became a permanent part of mainstream rap, Juvenile helped make the city’s voice impossible to treat like a regional footnote.
Hot Boy. Mixtape king. Young Money founder. Wayne kept changing lanes until the rest of rap had to catch up.
The youngest Hot Boys chapter was never just Wayne’s story. Turk gave the group another Magnolia Projects voice and carried that identity through prison, independence and reunion years.
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