{"id":161554,"date":"2026-02-19T19:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161554\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:08:28","slug":"ahead-of-next-months-new-album-juvenile-returns-for-st-pete-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161554\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of next month&#8217;s new album, Juvenile returns for St. Pete concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"500\" data-attachment-id=\"352706\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/juviethegreatfacebook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/juviethegreatFacebook.png?fit=1609%2C1030&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1609,1030\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"juviethegreatFacebook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Juvenile&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/juviethegreatFacebook.png?fit=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/juviethegreatFacebook.png?fit=780%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/juviethegreatFacebook.png\" alt=\"New Orleans rapper Juvenile posing in a yellow and white tie-dye t-shirt, wearing round gold-rimmed sunglasses, a thick silver Cuban link chain, and a luxury watch with his arms crossed against a plain white background.\" class=\"wp-image-352706\"  \/>Juvenile Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1304755641013829&amp;set=pb.100044382161318.-2207520000&amp;type=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">juviethegreat \/ Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s been backing its azz up for 26 years now, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juvenileofficial.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.juvenileofficial.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juvenile<\/a> is still making music. Last month, the 50-year-old icon of Louisiana hip-hop shared a new single (\u201cBBB\u201d) and plans to release his first new solo album in a decade, Boiling Point (stylized all-caps) on March 26.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the Hot Boy told <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2324971\/juvenile-finds-maturity\/interviews\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2324971\/juvenile-finds-maturity\/interviews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stereogum<\/a> that the album\u2019s title is a nod to how long he\u2019s been waiting to put the music out, adding that Birdman appears on three songs along with many other Cash Money Records icons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course Mannie Fresh in his greatest element. Turk is on there. B.G. is on there. Wayne is on. I got my guy Akeem Ali on there. LaRussell is on there. My son Young Juve\u2019s on there.\u201d he added. \u201cThe list is long.\u201d Expect to hear all about it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771528108_205_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/feb-19-25-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feb. 19 \u2013 25, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juvenile Credit: juviethegreat \/ Facebook The world\u2019s been backing its azz up for 26 years now, and Juvenile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5725,1962,7565,202,204,203,199,201,200,1865],"class_list":{"0":"post-161554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-jannus-live","9":"tag-juvenile","10":"tag-live-music-in-st-petersburg","11":"tag-st-pete","12":"tag-st-pete-headlines","13":"tag-st-pete-news","14":"tag-st-petersburg","15":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","16":"tag-st-petersburg-news","17":"tag-tampa-bay-concerts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}