Juvenile goes quadruple platinum

2 June 1998: Number 38 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop musicThe dirty southern drawl that became ubiquitous in the noughties spent much of the preceding decade as a distinctly local sound. Released on local record labels and often distributed by hand, the music rarely broke out of the communities it came from. The first album to have national success was Master P's fifth album, Ice Cream Man, on No Limit, which went platinum in 1996. However, it was fellow Ne...

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