Juvenile

This article is about the American rapper; for other meanings, see Juvenile (disambiguation) .

Juvenile, 2008

Juvenile (born March 25, 1975 in New Orleans , Louisiana ; real name Terius Gray ) is an American rapper .

biography

Gray began to be interested in rap and hip-hop when he was 10. He has been writing and rapping his own lyrics since he was twelve and founded the group UTP with friends, including Young Buck . Unsuccessful with the grouping, Gray keeps afloat doing odd jobs and switching between jobs and freestyle events .

When he got to know the owners of the Cash Money Records label , he received a contract and released his debut “Solja Rags”, which was a success with 200,000 records sold in Dirty South alone.

In 1998 he released the album "400 Degreez", the single "Back That Azz Up". Due to the successes, he received various nominations and awards. With the following releases "Tha G-Code" (1999), "Project English" (2001) and "Playaz of da Game" (2002) he could not build on the success of the first two albums. In 2002 "Juvenile presents UTP: The Compilation" was released. At the end of 2003 he reported back with another solo album "Juve the Great".

In mid-2005 Juvenile left the Cash Money Records label and later signed his UTP Records label with Atlantic Records and released the album Reality Check in 2006 , which rose to number 1 on the Billboard charts. On this album he processed, among other things, the loss of his property due to Hurricane Katrina in his hometown of New Orleans .

On February 29, 2008, Juvenile's daughter, Jelani, who was four years old at the time, was murdered. The rapper did not attend the girl's funeral.

Discography

Solo albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		US
1995	Being Myself	US137 (2 weeks) US	First release: February 7, 1995 only in 1999 as a remixed version in the charts
1998	400 degree	US9 × 4 Quadruple platinum (100 weeks)US	Initial Publication: November 3, 1998 US Sales: 4,900,000+
1999	Tha G code	US10 platinum (26 weeks)US	First published: December 14, 1999 US sales: 1,000,000+
2001	Project English	US2 gold (18 weeks)US	Initial Release: Aug 21, 2001 US Sales: 500,000+
2003	Juve the Great	US28 platinum (41 weeks)US	First published: December 23, 2003 US sales: 1,000,000+
2006	Reality check	US1 gold (14 weeks)US	Initial publication: March 7, 2006 US sales: 500,000+
2009	Cocky & Confident	US49 (4 weeks) US	First published: December 1, 2009
2010	Beast mode	US58 (1 week) US	First published: July 6, 2010

More solo albums

• 1997: Solja Rags
• 2012: Rejuvenation
• 2014: The Fundamentals

Collab albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		US
2004	The beginning of the end	US122 (4 weeks) US	First published: May 18, 2004 with Wacko and Skip as UTP

More collab albums

• 2002: Gotta Get It (with JT the Bigga Figga)
• 2002: The Compilation (with Wacko and Skip as UTP)
• 2004: Nolia Clap (with Wacko and Skip as UTP)
• 2007: Back Like We Left Something (with Wacko and Skip as UTP)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		US
2004	The Greatest Hits	US31 (6 weeks) US	First published: October 19, 2004

More compilations

• 2000: Playaz of da Game
• 2005: Raw

Mix tapes

• 2009: Undefeated
• 2012: Mardi Gras
• 2012: Nino the Magnificent
• 2012: Juvie Tuesday
• 2015: Mardi Gras 2

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		US
1998	Ha 400 Degreez	US68 (10 weeks) US
1999	Back That Thang Up 400 Degreez	US19th gold (30 weeks)US	feat. Mannie Fresh and Lil Wayne Sales US: 500,000+
	Bling Bling Chopper City in the Ghetto	US36 (19 weeks) US	BG feat. Big Tymers , Lil Wayne, Turk and Juvenile
	Tha Block Is Hot Tha Block Is Hot	US72 (11 weeks) US	Lil Wayne feat. Juvenile and BG
2000	U Understand Tha G-Code	US83 (6 weeks) US
2001	Set It Off Project English	US65 (15 weeks) US
	From Her Mamma (Mamma Got Ass) Project English	US65 (15 weeks) US
2003	In My Life Juve the Great	US46 (17 weeks) US	feat. Mannie Fresh
2004	Slow Motion Juve the Great	US1 gold (28 weeks)US	feat. Soulja Slim Sales US: 500,000+
	Nolia Clap The Beginning of the End	US31 (20 weeks) US	with Wacko and Skip as UTP
2006	Rodeo Reality Check	US41 gold (19 weeks)US	Sales US: 500,000+

More singles

• 1995: Conversation with the Man Above
• 1997: Solja Rag
• 1999: Follow Me Now
• 2000: I Got That Fire (feat. Mannie Fresh)
• 2004: Bounce Back ( feat.Birdman )
• 2006: What's Happenin '
• 2006: Way I Be Leanin ' (feat. Mike Jones , Paul Wall , Skip and Wacko)
• 2009: Gotta Get It
• 2009: We Be Getting Money ( feat.Shawty Lo , Dorrough and Kango Slim)
• 2010: Drop That Thang
• 2011: Power (feat. Rick Ross )

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
United States (RIAA)	5 × gold5	6 × platinum6th	8,500,000	riaa.com
All in all	5 × gold5	6 × platinum6th

swell

1. ↑ Juvenile's New Reality Scores Billboard # 1 (English)
2. ↑ MTV.de: Juvenile fled from Katrina ( memento of the original from March 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ MTV.de: Juvenile's 4-year-old daughter murdered! ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ MTV.de: Juv did not go to the funeral of his daughter ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: US
6. ↑ US sales 400 Degreez
7. ↑ Chart sources: US

Web links

• Official website
• Juvenile at laut.de
• Juvenile at Allmusic (English)