Hot Boys

Cash Money曾经的招牌乐团，The Hot Boys由Juvenile，B.G.，Turk,Lil' Wayne组成，并且于1997年制作发行了乐团的首张专辑《Get It How U Live》，40万张的销量让The Hot Boys说唱乐团名声鹊起，不久之后的1999年，乐团第二张专辑《Guerrilla Warfare》的发行，这张销量超过50万张的唱片让The Hot Boys说唱乐团取得了全美地区的知名度，而乐团的成员们也纷纷开始了个人音乐的发展。 by Mtume SalaamFormed in 1997, the Hot Boys consisted of four youthful rappers from the same neighborhood of New Orleans, LA. Two of the four, B.G. and Juvenile, were already regionally successful, each having spent several years making a name for themselves in the local rap scene. The two newcomers, Lil' Wayne and Young Turk, rapped with a polished style that belied their age and inexperience. The Hot Boys' output was significantly similar, in personnel as well as musical direction, to the group members' solo albums. This, coupled with the fact that all four rappers were signed to the same label, made the Hot Boys as much a marketing ploy as an actual group. In 1997, the foursome released their debut album, Get it How U Live, on the then-independent Cash Money Records. The Hot Boys limited themselves to typical gangsta topics: guns, sex, and money. However, the four rappers' entertaining and varied deliveries and original backing tracks (provided by in-house producer Mannie Fresh) separated their release from numerous similarly themed releases. Despite little or no commercial exposure, Get it How U Live quickly sold over 400,000 copies, primarily in the mid-South; following B.G.'s national success, the album was reissued nationally in 1999, followed later that year by Guerrilla Warfare.