Juvenile-Project English Full Album Zip

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2001: Juvenile released his fifth studio album, Project English, on Aug. 21, 2001. Coming off a less than satisfactory fourth album, Tha G Code, in 1999, Juvenile had some decisions to make as to where to go artistically and business-wise.

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Fueled by the singles "Set It Off" and "Momma Got Ass," Project English peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The album moved 213,000 copies in it's first week and being executive produced by Mannie Fresh, went on to be certified platinum by RIAA.

Aside from being another hit album to add to his catalog, this was also a turning point for Juvie career wise. Project English was one of the last albums the New Orleans MC and former Hot Boy would release under Cash Money Records as he would leave temporarily over mismanagement disputes in 2001. After release of this album, Juve would start his own label, UTP Records in 2002 before hashing things out with Baby and returning to Cash Money in 2003 to create more Southern classics.

On Tuesday (March 26), the New Orleans, LA legend added to the festivities by unveiling a music video for the pivotal album's title track, which was directed by Diesel Films and began with a message to viewers.

"On Nov. 3, 1998, Juvenile released his third studio album, 400 Degreez. The album went on to be certified four-times platinum, having sold four million copies," the opener read. "The groundbreaking album remains Juvenile's best-selling project of his solo career."

In the four-minute clip, shots of Juvie performing were interspersed with various scenes that brought the song's subject matter to life. Mannie Fresh, who produced the iconic cut, was also featured prominently throughout.

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Tomorrow marks the 14-year anniversary of Juvenile's 400 Degreez. The album sold over four million copies, spawned rap's greatest booty shaking anthem ("Back That Azz Up"), established Juvenile as a premier Southern rapper, and took Cash Money from a strong independent label to a national empire. A few months back, Juve swung by the Complex offices to discuss the making of not only the essential cuts from 400 Degreez, but all the songs that shaped his career.

Talking to the 37-year-old rapper today, it's clear that he's at peace with himself and proud of his accomplishments. Juve talked about how he started selling tapes on his own and making good money before teaming up with Cash Money just to work with Mannie Fresh. He recalled finding his voice with "Solja Rag," and how he persevered through a bad breakup with the label.

I would put out a tape and outsell anybody who was coming out of New Orleans. I had a cassette tape that I had to burn and make copies of myself. I would come out to the club at the end of the week and we would have bags full of tapes. Pretty much the whole club was trying to buy the same thing. The only place you could get it was from was me. It was hand-to-hand, but we was making more than the record store.

It came through Universal so I guess they made some kind of contact with them and emailed it to us. That killed everything for me because I was excited like a kid on Christmas. Here it is, somebody that you look up to in the rap game on your song. I was blown away with that.

All of us was on Cash Money as solo artists. Turk was probably the last one brought in. Turk was actually brought to Cash Money to do bounce music. There was a girl on Cash Money named Magnolia Shorty who had been telling Baby all the time they needed to get Turk, because he was just one of those cats making a lot of bounce music.

Juvenile: I think that was a Baby and DJ Paul situation. I was on tour with Three 6 Mafia for a couple of months. We realized they had just as much steam as us, so Baby and Paul started talking to them and we did a song with them.

Our strength was consistency. One record company would put out one or two artists, one album here and one there. We would put out four or five a year. As a small company, we handled way more than what a small company can do. We rocked even with the big dogs. So I think that made Cash Money really what it is right now. We still have that same work ethic.

You gotta give our props to Master P. Master P started it, he opened the door but we kind of came in and we did what P was doing. I wouldn't say on a bigger scale, I just think the things we did had more longevity in it than what they did.

Wacko had this hook he had been singing around the studio for a minute, the whole Nolia Clap thing, so it was just a matter of putting a beat to it. We got out there to the West Coast and hooked up with my man XL and got in the studio with him and started throwing ideas together and we came up with that.

Juvenile: Truthfully, my man Cool & Dre came up with the record. And by me being cool with R. Kelly, I figured it would be a good look for me or something different because everything up to that point had pretty much been fast records. So I just wanted to have something from me to compliment the whole Juve slowing it down move. It worked real good to be honest. I didn't think it would do so well in the strip clubs but it did.

[The Reality Check era was] real emotional. I don't think it was the greatest time for me to be in the studio recording songs because I had too much going on outside of the music industry in my head as far as family and this and that. Even though we had done the deal before the hurricane hit, the timing was bad. We should have held off on that one. I probably would have made different kinds of songs and done things differently.

The numbers were pretty good, I went gold. It was a shock to me it went gold. I didn't think people was going to pick up that album because everybody was going through something at that time. Financially, a lot of my fans are in the Texas-Louisiana area, and financially they just wasn't able to go stores and buy music. I thought it was going to be way more worse.

I've never been one to bite my tongue, I will come straight out and say so to that person name and say it to him. It's not a situation like that for me. I'm not even living that like that right now. I always try to tell people I'm in a happy state in my life right now. My oldest daughter just graduated from college, my oldest boy is in his second year of college, my youngest daughter, she's 14, so I got a lot to live for.

On my last album people thought I was dissing Soulja Boy, and I'm cool with Soulja Boy. He's way younger than me. So I try to explain to people that when I say soldier, I been saying that before he was born. I don't even know him to say anything about him. That ain't me, that ain't my character.

Juvenile: I was just paying attention to where the industry was. I wanted to do something a little different but still get my point across so people could see where Juve was at. It was more like a get my flow on type of thing. That was another song that was a shocker because when I recorded I never thought it was going to be a single. I just thought it was going to be a song on the album but you get different reactions from different people and some of the right people like that song. I had to run with it.

I've done songs with [Mannie recently] but never on my project or never on a project of his, always on somebody else's. Cats come along and want to spend money and they get us like that. Actually me and him going into the studio doing something together, it's been a minute.

Mannie is real entertaining. It's not only the music, it's the mood that he put on. The perfect compliment for Juve tracks wise is Mannie Fresh. No disrespect to all other producers who have done music for me in the past and probably will in the future. I just think nobody music compliments me better than Fresh.

Dude been through a lot, he lost his sister. I think that had a lot to do with him slowing down because him and his sister had one of the tightest and closest relationship as a brother and sister. It's something that brothers and sisters out there wish they had. It affected me so I'm quite sure it affected him. For him to lose his sister, it took a lot out of him.

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