You can't have a 2025 mindset. Go back to 1994/1995, we have block parties, dancies, down here....when you see a teen 13 years old, 14 years old get on the mic and rock the crowd every weekend, you as a young teen/kid gravitate to that kid/teen on the mic who is rocking the crowd.
I think AP stated that in his post with Lil Wayne and he is dead on...seeing an 11 year old kid who is the same age or close in age as you rap with other teens who are the ages of your brothers, cousins etc is something special...and you gotta remember...everybody wasn't a rapper like folks are today.
You actually had to be talented to rap...nowadays or should I say around 2006 or some shit....every nigga I guess woke up and decided that they could rap...or be a rapper...back in them 90s...yo ass had to have talent....and everybody didn't try and do it nor could they do it.....so seeing this nigga Wayne at 11 doing it and others seeing Juvie so young doing was special and made us feel connected...esepcially with them being local and visible.
Now you are looking forward to seeing "in this case" juvie on the set, soulja slim started off like this as well.
Now that kid who you've seen at these local block parties..dances..teen summit....now puts out a song.. "Bounce for the Juvenile" and you hear it on the radio, at the dances...after the football games...around the city....you start to really become a fan of that teen/kid again in this example...Juvie..
That song takes over the city....now you are watching him....he gets featured on a few more songs....but then you hear "soulja rags" That same kid from the block party now has "souja rags" which is one if not the staple song of New Orleans, being played everywhere. That song has reached out to other cities in the state of LA. The song has a video...and it's being requested on "The Box" all the time...
It's cross into other states such as Mississippi and parts of Texas and Alabama....It has made its way because at the time "in 1997" Southern University was the top school...not LSU....but Southern Univiersity plus SU had a lot of folks from the city attending the school
How do I know this....You can look back on old TV shows...such as Fresh Prince...Martin....Def Comedy Show....the movie Low Down Dirty Shame and you wouldor saw Jada Pinkett with a SU hoodie on...You saw Martin Lawerence hosting Def Comedy Jam with a SU sweatshirt on back in 93.....You saw Will Smith with a SU shirt on...It was SU or Howard U...and about 7-10 White Colleges....your Notre Dames, Miami, FSU, Michigan, USC, Maybe Ohio State, your Nebraska, your Florida Gators and maybe Tennesse.... These white PWI schools were the ONLY schools on the map...after that, it was Southern University and Howard, All the rest of the PWIs back in the 90s, mid 90s, nobody gave 2 shits about them like they do them now...
IT was Southern University and Nobody else for Black People in the South and around the country for the most part if you were outside...in the 90s
@400Degreez Back me up with this statement....
But to get back on how folks down here like Juvie....College kids from other colleges HBCUs would come to Southern University or New Orleans period for things like SU homecoming. the Bayou Classic or Mardi Gras... You would see "slogans" cented around the song "Soulja Rags" for Southern U homecoming (Put up your soulja rag for the SU jags) THat's Southern University's mascot, the Jaguar... The Bayou Classic....It use to be close to 1 million black people at the Bayou Classic...or more...from ALL OVER THE COUNTRY...movie stars...Bill Cosby and his elk...LL Cool J...big black movie stars at the time...and guess what's playing in New Orleans on the radio "cuz you didn't have the internet"....Juvenile...Soulja Rags...BG....Cash Money...No Limit....all being blasted on 93.3. (local station in NOLA or it's being played on 1460 AM (local station in BR which became 94.1 the Max)
Nothing else is being playing at the Bayou Classic...DJ Jubeliee Mystikal....So now you have these folks down here in NOLA for the Thanksgiving weekend partying listening to nothing but Juvenile because at the time...if somebody was being played....you automatically latched on...(to be cool) even if you so call didn't like it..you stlll latched on...cuz you didn't wanna be the odd ball out... or looked at as a hater...
Now these folks leave..go back to ATL, go back to DC..go back to Cali...to Texas...to most the southern states....and guess what they are looking for....Juvenile...BG...Master P....
Guess what's being played at these other HBCUs....and middle schools..etc....
Then the next year Ha drops...guess when the 400 degrees album drops.... Right around the Bayou Classic time....Guess what was being played at the bayou classic weekend?
It was a slow burn but down here...everybody had 400 degrees and if you wanna be technical...after the bayou classic weekend....look at that album numbers and it started to increase....I think that weekend...gave it some juice too....along with the back that thang up single...
It's a reason why No Limit and other folks down south drop their album around Bayou Classic time... P would drop his A list artists around that time...
