Juvenile (rapper)
Juvenile ( born March 25, 1975, in New Orleans as Terius Gray ) is an American rapper.
Biography
Gray began to be interested in Rap and Hip- Hop as 10 - year-old. Since his 12 years, he writes and raps his own texts and founded with friends, including Young Buck belonged to the group of UTP. Since the grouping is not successful, Grey keeps up with odd jobs and changes between the jobs and freestyle events.
When he met the owner of the label Cash Money Records, he signed a contract and released his debut album " Solja Rags " which is with 200,000 records sold alone in the Dirty South to success.
In 1998 he released the album " 400 Degreez ", the single " Back That Azz Up." Due to the successes he has received various nominations and awards. With the following publications " Tha G-Code" (1999), " Project English " (2001) and " Playaz of da Game" ( 2002), however, he could not build on the successes of the first two albums. In 2002 he released " Juvenile UTP presents: The Compilation ". He announced the end of 2003 is back with another solo album " Juve the Great".
In mid-2005 Juvenile left the label Cash Money Records, and came later with his label UTP Records with Atlantic Records and in 2006 published the album Reality Check, which debuted at # 1 on the Billboard charts. On this album he worked among others for the loss of his property by Hurricane Katrina in his hometown of New Orleans.
On 29 February 2008 Juveniles was murdered at this time four years old daughter Jelani. At the funeral of the girl, the rapper did not participate.