#470 Juvenile, '400 Degreez' (1998)

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‘400 Degreez’ is the third album for New Orleans rapper, Juvenile. Featuring the singles, ‘Ha’ and ‘Back That Azz Up,’ the album is 4x Platinum in the US and remains the highest selling album on Cash Money records.

Remember on my The Pharcyde review when I said that growing up hip hop “wasn’t my genre of choice”? It’s because of albums that sound like this. I found that the beat was pretty monotonous & uninventive and I didn’t connect with any of the rhymes. But overall, the thing that bothered me most about this album, was that for some reason, the version that is on Spotify is censored and for a hip hop record, or any record for that matter, it’s ridiculous. The main hook in the massive hit single goes “Back that zza up, back that zza up.” It’s distracting and stupid. To be honest, I doubt I’d have enjoyed the album any more had it not been censored, but this is not the way to listen to a record. Side note – the title for Snoop Dogg’s hit, ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ came from a line in this song. 

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