Juvenile on How To Have a ‘Hotboy Summer’ and Which Song He Thought Would Be Bigger Than ‘Back That Azz Up’ (Exclusive)

It’s been over two and a half decades since Juvenile’s “Back That Azz Up” was released to the radio and immediately had a chokehold on the airwaves. Now, the NOLA rapper is back with a brand new song, “Hotboy Summer,” and a whole bunch of branded products that he strongly believes will enhance the season.

In the past, it’s been reported that Juvenile had some skepticism around “Back That Azz Up” — also known as “Back That Thang Up” — which would go on to be one of the most defining rap songs of the late ’90s/early ’00s. We recently had a chance to ask him about it while on site for the Hard Summer festival in Los Angeles, and Juvenile explained, “Truthfully, I thought ‘Back That Azz Up’ was going to be a song to bring me back to where I started from because when I first started my music c