Juvenile status as a hip-hop legend is etched in stone. But the New Orleans icon is not done yet. Juvenile recently released his latest LP Boiling Point, his first project in more than a decade.
Speaking with Vibe, Juvenile spoke about how his performance on NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert” in 2024 introduced him to a brand new audeince.
“Tiny Desk blew [up]. Let’s keep it real. I don’t like to lie to the fans. See, if I don’t go on Tiny Desk with my dogs, and we didn’t do that sh*t live, man, this sh*t wouldn’t be happening,” Juvenile explained. “Shout out to Mannie Fresh, shout out to Trombone Shorty, shout out to my dog Jon Batiste. Shout out to The 400 Degreez Band, everybody that showed up.”
PERFORMING ON TINY DESK WAS A GAME-CHANGERS FOR JUVENILE
“But it was all about NPR and Tiny Desk, man. Shout out to everybody at NPR, man ’cause if it wasn’t for them showing up in that office that day,” he continued. “The people who actually worked there. That was the people that worked there, that wasn’t anybody I brought there. They participated like they were part of the show. I just appreciate everybody over there at NPR.”
With his viral hit, “BBB,” landing on the Billboard charts, the timing couldn’t be better to release Boiling Point.The new project is double album.
“It’s two albums, too. It’s Boiling Point and Boiling Point 2. One is coming out on my birthday, and we don’t have a date for the second one,” said Juvenile. “I want to make sure I stress that ’cause I ain’t been telling people that. It’s like, ‘Damn, how many songs you put on one album?’ I say, ‘You know I can’t put all those songs on an album. Not 30 songs.’ So yeah, each album will have 18 cuts.”
Juvenile noted that he made the album for his generations and the fans the grew up on his music.
“..My album is really done for my generation. I stuck to it throughout the whole album. So you’re going to hear the likes of Cash Money,” he said. “You’re going to hear the likes of Mannie Fresh doing his motherf**king thing…He’s got some treats on there, too.
“That’s all I can tell you, but we on there,”Juvenile continued. “It’s going to get that Cash Money feel as soon as it comes on, and the first person you hear talking is Birdman.}