6/16/2023 0 Comments 400 degreez juvenileThe scene’s domestic tranquility is closer to a King of the Hill episode than the chaos and youthful exuberance of his 1998 “Ha” video. ![]() Louis sun shines behind Juvenile as he relaxes in a backyard covered with emerald-green grass. The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn't Know More than two decades after he shifted the course of hip-hop with his off-kilter flow and booming voice on albums like his own 400 Degreez and the Hot Boys’ Guerilla Warfare, Juvenile seems thrilled to have honored his former group in appliance form. The red-painted fixture is Lil Wayne, and the largest lamp is B.G., who “was a lil’ taller than all of us,” Juvenile recalls. “You know who that is, right?” Looking closer, I see that the four humanoid-looking fixtures - with their lightbulb heads and pipes approximating their arms and legs - represent the famous Cash Money rap group that Juvenile was part of in the late Nineties. But it’s an assortment of light fixtures that hold the most special place in Juvenile’s heart. Hidden inside his creations are electrical outlets or compartments for wine and champagne bottles. The chair he just hopped out of was built with his own hands, as were the cabinets, sofa tables, and stools filling the screen. Louis backyard, Juvenile grins with pride as he pans the phone around him. “You know I gotta let you see these pieces,” he exclaims. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m about to hang up my Zoom call with Juvenile when shock spreads across the rapper’s face.
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