Hot Boys

The Hot Boys
From left to right: Turk, Juvenile, B.G., and Lil Wayne
Background information
Also known as	The Hot Boyz
Origin	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop Southern hip hop gangsta rap
Years active	1997–2001 2012 2024-present
Labels	Cash Money Universal
Spinoff of	Cash Money Millionaires
Members	Lil Wayne Juvenile B.G. Turk
Past members	Bulletproof

The Hot Boys (often styled as Hot Boy$) is an American hip hop group from New Orleans, Louisiana, formed in 1997 and composed of rappers B.G., Lil Wayne, Juvenile and Turk.

The group signed with then-independent record label Cash Money Records to release their debut studio album, Get It How U Live! (1997). Despite mixed reviews, it peaked at number 22 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with regional sales, and has since sold 400,000 units domestically. Following Cash Money's joint venture deal with now-defunct Universal Records, the group released their second album, Guerrilla Warfare (1999), to further commercial success, peaking at number five on the Billboard 200, selling 142,000 copies in its first week, and receiving platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).^[1]

The group disbanded in 2001 when Juvenile, Turk, and B.G. left Cash Money, citing financial mismanagement, leaving Lil Wayne as the only original member signed to the label. Despite this, one further album from the group — Let 'Em Burn (2003), composed of material originally recorded between 1998 and 2000 — was released, and peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 200.

Many setbacks have prevented the group from having an official reunion. In 2006, Turk was sentenced to 14 years in prison for second degree attempted murder, slowing down plans for a reunion in 2009. Shortly before Turk's release from prison in 2012, B.G. was sentenced to 14 years in prison for gun possession and witness tampering; he was released in 2023. Since then, Hot Boys has managed to release one song together, a remix of Turk's 2012 song "Zip It".