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"Back That Azz Up" (edited version titled "Back That Thing Up") is a 1999 hit single by Juvenile for Cash Money Records, his biggest hit from his 1998 album 400 Degreez. The song, an explicit exploration of the same themes as Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" was Juvenile's biggest hit single until the release of "Slow Motion" in 2004. Jump to: navigation, search 1999(MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search Juvenile (born Terius Gray, 25 March 1975) is a gangsta rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Jump to: navigation, search Cash Money Records is a hip hop music subsidiary of the Universal Motown Records Group, based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1998(MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Jump to: navigation, search 400 Degreez is a hip hop album by New Orleans-based rapper Juvenile, released on June 9, 1998 (see 1998 in music). ... Sir Mix-a-Lot Sir Mix-a-Lot (born Anthony Ray, August 12, 1963) is a rapper and producer from Seattle, Washington, USA. He created his own brand of hip hop - influenced by Electro, Kraftwerk and Gary Numan, and funk. ... Jump to: navigation, search Baby Got Back is a hip hop song by Sir Mix-a-Lot about womens buttocks and the rappers aroused reaction to them. ... Slow Motion is a 2004 US #1 hit single by gangsta rapper Juvenile featuring Soulja Slim. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Also performing verses on "Back That Azz Up" are the song's producer, Mannie Fresh, and Juvenile's fellow Hot Boy Lil' Wayne. Wayne's verse ("After you back it and stop/then drop, drop, drop, drop it like it's hot") popularized an expression for a certain type of sexually suggestive dance; the expression was later re-popularized by Snoop Dogg with his number-one hit "Drop It Like It's Hot". Jump to: navigation, search Mannie Fresh (born Byron Thomas) is a record producer, the in-house producer for the New Orleans-based record label Cash Money Records. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Hot Boys were an American hip hop group, active from 1997 to 2001, and collectively made up of the most popular performers on the New Orleans-based record label Cash Money Records. ... Lil Wayne was one of the Hot Boys, an American rap group associated with Cash Money Records. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Drop It Like Its Hot is a 2004 hip-hop hit single by Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell. ...


Both the song and its music video were omnipresent in media venues for much of 1999 and early 2000. "Back That Azz Up", Juvenile's "Ha", and B.G.'s "Bling Bling" were the three hits that launched Cash Money into the pop mainstream. Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ... Jump to: navigation, search The cover to B.G.s album Chopper City in the Ghetto, which features his biggest hit, Bling Bling. The B.G. (short for The Baby Gangsta or B. Gizzle, born Christopher Dorsey in 1980 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an African-American rapper. ... A bling bling-heavy album cover from The B.G. Bling Bling is a 1999 hit hip-hop song by The B.G., featuring his Cash Money Records labelmates Juvenile, Lil Wayne, Turk, Baby, and Mannie Fresh. ...


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"You a fine muthafucka, won't you back that azz up" Juvenile coaxes while paying "tribute" to the ability of the fl female booty to bring a brother to his sagging shorts-covered knees.
For all the ideological messiness of "Back That Azz Up," its emphasis on all-fl pleasure is still a visual relief from the racial conundrums of most MTV top spins.
"The back" is such an unstable pop icon because of its history: in the 19th-century European imagination, the fl female ass was a symbol of primitive racial inferiority and deviant sexuality.
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