History
For its first few years (1992–1997), Cash Money played host to a number of local releases by artists, selling hundreds of thousands of albums without ever releasing a music video or having a Billboard hit. Some of the label's releases garnered some regional success in New Orleans and Louisiana, but the label was little known to the national rap scene. Some of the early artists on the label included the group U.N.L.V. (Uptown Niggas Living Violently), Kilo G, Lil Slim, and PxMxWx. In 1995, the label signed young rappers B.G. and Lil Wayne. They were the first signees of what would be the second wave of Cash Money artists. In 1997 those two, plus Juvenile (who had already been regionally successful before Cash Money), and Turk formed the group the Hot Boys. They would become the label's most well known artists, though initially they still didn't make much impact outside of the
For its first few years (1992–1997), Cash Money played host to a number of local releases by artists, selling hundreds of thousands of albums without ever releasing a music video or having a Billboard hit. Some of the label's releases garnered some regional success in New Orleans and Louisiana, but the label was little known to the national rap scene. Some of the early artists on the label included the group U.N.L.V. (Uptown Niggas Living Violently), Kilo G, Lil Slim, and PxMxWx. In 1995, the label signed young rappers B.G. and Lil Wayne. They were the first signees of what would be the second wave of Cash Money artists. In 1997 those two, plus Juvenile (who had already been regionally successful before Cash Money), and Turk formed the group the Hot Boys. They would become the label's most well known artists, though initially they still didn't make much impact outside of the
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