Back That Azz Up

Infobox Single
Name = Back That Azz Up


Artist = Juvenile featuring Mannie Fresh and Lil Wayne
from Album = 400 Degreez
Released = 1999
Format = CD
Recorded =
Genre = Rap
Length = 4:25
Label = Cash Money Records
Producer = Mannie Fresh
Chronology = Juvenile singles
Last single = "Ha" (1999)
This single = "Back That Azz Up" (1999)
Next single = "Follow Me Now" (1999)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Lil Wayne singles
Type = singles
Last single = "Tha Block Is Hot" (1999)
This single = "Back That Azz Up" (1999)
Next single = "Bling Bling" (1999)

"Back That Azz Up" (edited version titled "Back That Thang Up") is a 1999 hit single by Juvenile for Cash Money Records, his biggest hit from his 1998 album "400 Degreez". The song, an explicit exploration of the same themes as Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" was Juvenile's biggest hit single until the release of "Slow Motion" in 2004, peaking at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Also performing verses on "Back That Azz Up" are the song's producer, Mannie Fresh, and Juvenile's fellow Hot Boy Lil' Wayne. Wayne's verse ("After you back it up and stop/then drop, drop, drop, drop it like it's hot") popularized an expression for a certain type of sexually suggestive dance; the expression was later re-popularized by Snoop Dogg with his number-one hit "Drop It Like It's Hot". Lil Wayne's verse was repeated on his 2008 single, "Lollipop". Although, the edited version of the song is known as "Back That Thang Up", the version on the censored version of 400 Degreez edits out the word "azz".

Both the song and its music video were omnipresent in media venues for much of 1999 and early 2000. "Back That Azz Up", Juvenile's "Ha", and B.G.'s "Bling Bling" were the three hits that launched Cash Money into the pop mainstream.

Producer Mouse sampled Fresh's intro cello lines on the beat for Bun B's "Pop It 4 Pimp" (from his sophomore album "II Trill".) It features guest verses from Webbie and Juvenile himself (who raps in a similar pattern to his verses on "Back That Azz Up").

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