@WildWayne heats it up with @JuvietheGreat about #JuvieJuice #Donnafest @NPR #TinyDesk @EssenceFest and more! Part1

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your Boy Wild Wayne. That wrapsup to five o'clock fixed from DJ row
little throwback Thursday action. But likeI promise you got your boy juven What's
up? People's what's up New Orleans? And all the visitors? Amount of
time? What to do? Welcometo New Orleans, the legendary Juvenil.

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You know, I'm so excited foryou, bro. I was telling Chris
the other day, I say,this got to be Juvenile's biggest year ever.
Like it's victory after victory after victory. We have the victory every time.
I like, damn finish line Alittle bit. Guard has been good
to me a little bit. That'sawesome, Bro. I remember back in

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the early days, I found anold flyer that I did when we was
at mister Bees back into g Juvenil. Yeah, something crazy like that.
Uh yeah, A long time,bro, man, it's been a long
time. We've been rocking us.I'm just happy to see all of the
consecutive victories. I'm gonna just thisis what I've noticed. Everybody want to

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interview you. Now, I didn'tsee more of juvenile interviews. Been crazy.
Uh you got the Juwy juice popping. You got tiny desk npr.
Uh, you got the Juwy Tuesday, longest running Tuesday in America popping off.
Man, I'm real proud of thatfurniture. Uh. You got Essence

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Tomorrow, Essence Tomorrow. Uh,dinna fall going down Sunday. Yeah,
man, And I got a fewmore things going on in the city that's
private that I can't really speak on. But yeah, I'm moving on.
What do you attribute like this suddenwave of massive success because you've had big
successes over the years, but rightnow it's crazy. I guess, just

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staying grounded, And I'm staying groundedand just staying relevant, doing things stick
you know, sticking to what,sticking to what you know, my guard
gifts and taking those to new heights. But for me right now is this
Man, I'm just enjoying life.Man. It really is for me a
great a great time in life formen, and I think, you know,

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when you get the good, ifit makes the bad a little more
valuable. And I remember, wayback in the day, is I think
you were cleaning out some kind ofindustrial things. I was. I was
doing you do I remember we talkingabout this many many miny of it.
He was doing turnovers on the plants. I was working for all sid Environmental
So we was doing turnovers at plantsto stuff like that. Getting to going

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there and cleaning cleaning them tank somethingright, Yeah, nasty job, many
of America's dirtiest job. But thegood part. I was a foreman now,
so I wasn't getting that dirty.I was doing a little you know.
I had a lot of people doingthings for me. And I did
a lot of catalysts work too.On the furnace that that big furnace you
see burning when you pay. Yeah, yeah, well I was one of

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the guys that that transferred the catalystsin the inside. And no, after
they shut it down, now,when they shut it down, I was
the guy came in and cleaned itout. Okay, okay, I remember,
because I had to give you adeposit. That's right. Now,
I gotta work, I gotta goto work, right, that's awesome,
man. How did Julie just wheny'all was on gravity, because y'all we

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were too. We was in thehood, y'all hood when y'all about to
move to a whole lot of spot. I ain't gonna give y'all inform,
but y'all about to move again.We're about to move again. But that
was what we was there. That'smy wife calling while I'm hey, baby,
we on the air. Yeah,we all qu nine the tree.
They say hey, y'all where theycan hear you say it again? Say

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hey, y'all, y'all. She'swe get we getting it together for the
din for the Donna Fest. Shehung up. She said, Man,
put me on a like, man, so we'll talk about Donna Fests and
more than man, how did youwe do start? Man? Because I

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just think like artists especially have tocreate some merchandise that's gonna make them some
some meal box money. That's right, Like P said, product product always
talent, right, Yes, Soit's about it's about generation and wealth,
right. So it's one of themsituations where I was talking to my guy
Travis. We went over there tourban South to to really like have a

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drink or two and the wind upturning in something else right, started sampling
these drinks and and and got withthe owners and we sat down and we
had great conversation Asians and the ideasthat started flowing on on this drink that's
going to be so different and soNew Orleans and so Juvie and so urbans
out that it worked out, man, because I'm really not a cat that

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drink a lot of celsas or beersor anything like that. But now I
can tell you I'm officially a bearSeltza drink or however you want to put
it, I drink it because nowthat they have something on the market that
I really enjoy drinking, and Ilike, I really love it takes and
this is a a a Palmer,which is like a lemonade te blending.
Yeah, but the hood sugar yeah, you know really man, A lot

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of Celtzas have that bitterness to it, where so this one actually have a
lot of definition to it. Soif you haven't had it, man,
you really need to go try tolove it. Is there a new flavor
coming well right now we want tojust keep our focus on this one flavor,
but definitely yeah, yeah, itwill be a few more flavors.
Speaking of Urban South, this Sundaygo down to urban with the Dina Fests.

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This is the fourth one, right, we only have and I'm gonna
tell y'all now, we don't havemaybe three four tables left. We just
sold everything tickets crazy. We havevendors out there for y'all, different you
know, different vendors. We're reallychecking in too, more vendors, So
vendors in the city who want tobe part of the festival. We're doing
this every year. Y'all can reachout right now, y'all. Y'all,

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y'all, y'all know how to getat me, Get at me on at
Juvie the Great on Instagram and we'llhit you back. Now, what is
a Dina Fest? For those thatdon't know, it's a festival. At
first, it was a birthday partyfor my wife, my first commercials.
First year, any winds up turninginto something else because we got all these
people that flies in to celebrate withthe color the color burst, right,

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so it turned into a whole festival. Now we say, you know,
if we're gonna go this far,we're gonna do something. Let's go in
on and do it tell them aboutthe color Birth. For those that don't
know, the Color Birst is likea celebration of a celebration of life that
my wife does. And we're notdoing it in the crowd where everybody else.
We havet a location that we're goingto and we're gonna do the Color
Burst this year. So y'all reallyif you want to be part of this,

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y'all really want to come out andsee it's it's a bunch of different
powders that you can have that don'tthat you can wash out of your clothes,
that can't get in your system.That's that's harmless. And I'm telling
you, man, every year wedo, we have a wall, we
go at it. You know whatI'm saying. But it's it's it's one
of the funniest things to do.It turns a bunch of adults into kids.

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And this is uh with performances followingperformances before we're gonna do this.
Okay, the color vers will beafter. So who you got on the
lineup this year? Well, wegot of course, cash money, me
many fresh And I'm gonna say thisso I want everybody didn't know birds it's
gonna be there, but he's Idon't know about the performance. Party really
don't perform name. You might saya few things for y'all and that's it.

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But that's how my guys. He'sjust gonna lay stunt down. That's
how he do. He lay stuntdown. Uh will be in the building,
of course. I gotta say meman and fresh, my guys,
my guys, partners in crime.I got the Rebird coming out there.
My guy t Rail, one ofthe new hot R and b artists cross
country doing this thing from Kansas City, and uh man, the list grows,

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This list is growing. We mightadd a couple more people. I've
been talking to jube the last forthe last couple of days, so I'm
thinking about and Jubilee and the listenis growing. And Rebirth too. Yeah,
Rebird definitely Grammy Award winning Rebirth.We'll be performing live and on top
of that, on top of that, we got some more special guests that's
popping up through that's gonna perform too. So y'all need to really really get

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your tickets now, man, wedon't have that many less event bright dot
com. Go to event bright dotcom, man and look up Dona Fest.
All right, there it is.Hey, look, we're gonna give
another pair of tickets away. ThisI were giving them away all day long,
while another pair of coming up.We're gonna pay these quick bills and
we'll come back because I got moreI need to ask you about. Come

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on, find out what else thehell you got going on. You've got
the MICA's touch right now. Comeon, man, we'll take a quick
break. We'll be back with morejuve right here on the Q ninety three.