J. Prince confident in Cash Money reunion

By The Hip Hop Writer
Hip Hop Vibe Staff Writer

For years, fans have been wanting The Hot Boyz to reunite, as each member has gone in a different direction. During their peak, Juvenile was the most popular rapper in the crew. B.G. also had strong buzz, but Lil Wayne was nothing more than the sidekick of the crew. Even Turk had more buzz.

Juvenile has been in the game for years and he has gone through several record labels. He started his career with Cash Money Records, but left after a contract dispute. In recent years, Juvenile has been signed to Koch and Atlantic Records and is now with Rap-A-Lot Records.

J. Prince, the head of Rap-A-Lot, is confident he will be able to reunite the Hot Boyz. Now, he has plans of reuniting the entire crew. Juvenile said he was ready to do a reunion album, but Lil Wayne's prison sentence stopped things from happening. J. Prince has plans of talking with Birdman to see if Rap-A-Lot Records and Cash Money Records can unite to become one crew.

While Juvenile's album does not have a title yet, J. Prince is convinced it will be a classic. He wants the entire Cash Money crew to be featured on the album. Prince feels they were family once and they can be family again. Because he, Birdman, and Slim are all businessmen, J. Prince thinks they can work something out to have the entire crew on the next Juvenile album.

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Juvenile returns to Rap-A-Lot Records, possible Hot Boyz single

By The Hip Hop Writer
Hip Hop Vibe Staff Writer

In 2003, Juvenile returned to Cash Money Records, but he also established his UTP Records' label and the group. For their project, he set up a business deal with Rap-A-Lot Records. The group released their first and only album, The Beginning of the End, through Rap-A-Lot.

Soon, Juvenile cut ties with both Cash Money and Rap-A-Lot to focus on his own career. Soon, he had established a distribution deal with Koch Records. After spending a few years with Koch, the UTP label was relocated to Atlantic Records. Juvenile released three albums under Atlantic.

Juvenile is following up 2009's Cocky & Confident with a new album on Rap-A-Lot Records. J. Prince, the head of the label, has reached out to Lil Wayne and B.G. He wants the former members of the Hot Boyz to team up with Juvenile for his lead single. In 2009, the three rappers teamed up for a song on B.G.'s Too Hood 2 B Hollywood.

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Rap-A-Lot Records lands distribution deal with Fontana Distribution

With today being the twenty-fourth anniversary of Rap-A-Lot Records, J. Prince has landed a new deal for his label. Established in 1986, Rap-A-Lot is best-known for the Geto Boys and their frontman, Scarface. For the past few years, Prince has had the label working with Asylum Records.

However, from this point forward, Rap-A-Lot will be under an exclusive distribution deal with Fontana Distribution. Ron Spaulding, the president of the company, is very happy to be doing business with J. Prince again. In the past, they have worked together and Spaulding loved the result. Now they are back in cahoots together, Spaulding and J. Prince are confident they will pick up where they left off years ago.

The deal is effective immediately and J. Prince is confident Rap-A-Lot will become the largest breadwinner for the Fontana division of Universal.

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