"Inside The Industry" with Rapper Juvenile: Discusses Leaving Cash Money, Hurricane Katrina, Lil Wayne Jay-Z, Birdman & More

Rapper Juvenile, best known from his work with Birdman and Cash Money Records in New Orleans, called us up to discuss how things have been for him since leaving Cash Money, also how it was experiencing Hurricane Katrina. He also discusses his thoughts on Lil' Wayne, Jay-Z, Birdman and more.

Juve tells TheNewTalkoftheTown.com,

"I've been one of the lucky ones to have a few hits to stay around this long."

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Juvenile went both solo and as a member of the Cash Money's then-flagship group, Hot Boys.          

Between 2001 and 2003, the label sold 7 million albums. 

B.G. and Juvenile left the label by 2002, claiming financial mismanagement. 

In April 2003, Juvenile returned to the label for a reported $4 million deal, and in return, he signed over the rights to Juve The Great, an album which sold over a million copies and contained the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit "Slow Motion".

Juvenile has been though a lot along the years, on February 29, 2008, his 4-year-old Jelani was shot and killed in her home, along with mother Deleston and older half sister. Deleston's oldest child, 17-year-old son Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr., returned to the home after police arrived and implicated himself in the murder of his mother and siblings. Terrell was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of aggravated assault. He remains in the DeKalb County jail.

Take a listen to our exclusive interview with Juve, remastered from 2010 below: