Lil Wayne, Juvenile, B.G. and Turk are officially reuniting as Hot Boys this year — and it’s going down in their hometown of New Orleans.
On Tuesday (September 3), Wayne announced that he and his former Cash Money cohorts will be performing together at his Lil WeezyAna Festival, which takes place on November 2 at the Smoothie King Center.
Attendees will also be treated to a “special” DJ set from fellow Cash Money kingpin Mannie Fresh, as well as a performance from fellow New Orleans native Rob49. Additional artists will be revealed in the coming weeks.
Tickets for the festival go on sale on Friday (September 6) at 8 a.m. PT via Ticketmaster.
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A Hot Boys reunion has been teased for almost a year now, but the journey to their upcoming Lil WeezyAna performance has been anything but smooth.
In July, B.G. and Turk began feuding after Birdman’s Cash Money reunion set at Essence Festival, during which he brought out B.G., Juvenile and Mannie Fresh but not Turk.
After the performance, Gizzle took aim at his former groupmate, saying: “It’s only one n-gga ain’t in this bitch, ya heard me? He brought that on hisself, ya heard me? N-gga did a bunch of ho shit and can’t take it back. He gotta fault his self for not being here.
“I know there’s gonna be a lot of people that’s like, ‘Oh, well, such and such, whoop de whoop.’ The n-gga know what he did last summer. And I’ma just leave it like that.”
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Turk hit back by telling B.G. to “sit his muthafucking ass down somewhere” while declaring that he would not be involved in a Hot Boys reunion.
In response, the “Bling Bling” rapper downplayed Turk’s role in Hot Boys, comparing him to Destiny’s Child outcast LeToya Luckett, and claimed that he would not be missed if a reunion were to happen without him.
Despite the tension, Juvenile later weighed in and said he was positive that a Hot Boys reunion would still happen. However, he acknowledged that the group needed to “sit down and have a conversation” to iron out their issues.
Juvie has also announced that a new Hot Boys album is in the works, which would mark the group’s first since 2003’s Let ‘Em Burn.
But this, too, has been met with conflicting responses from the rest of the group, with Lil Wayne appearing clueless about the project when asked about it on NFL star Cam Heywood’s Not Just Football podcast.
“That’s what he [said]? I ain’t been to the kitchen yet. I would not lie to you, I have not been in that kitchen yet,” Weezy said. “I have no problem with going to that kitchen, but I ain’t smell it, it ain’t come through the window yet. I ain’t smell the food […] They ain’t told me nothing yet.”
