Juvenile has revealed that he and Paul Wall passed on the beat to “Low” before Flo Rida turned it into a smash hit.
Appearing on DJ Hed’s Effective Immediately alongside longtime collaborator Mannie Fresh, Juvie said that the T-Pain-produced song originally belonged to him and the Houston rapper.
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“If I sat here and told you how many songs went through my hands, you’d be like, ‘Wow,'” he told Hed. “I’ma give you a big one: ‘Apple Bottom jeans, boots with the fur.’ I ain’t want Apple Bottom jeans on the song. I said, ‘Man, you gotta take them Apple Bottom jeans off.’
“The song was originally Paul Wall’s. They put me on there as a feature but I flipped out on there a little bit, I went in on it. I recorded a verse on it. I’m clowning on the song, then they said, ‘Paul Wall don’t want the record.'”
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He continued: “Then they said, ‘Do you want it?’ I’m like, ‘But the Apple Bottom jeans part.’ That [brand] was popular years before that. When the song came out, Apple Bottom jeans wasn’t even selling and I’m like, ‘Man, that’s a little outdated.’
“That’s the only part I had a problem with but I love the song, that’s why I did it.”
Juvenile added that he no longer has possession of the verse he recorded for his version of the song, but insisted it was a good one.
“Low,” which features T-Pain, later became Flo Rida’s debut single and was an enormous commercial success.
The 2007 song went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, reached diamond status and was the most downloaded song of the 2000s.
Juvenile also recently revealed some behind-the-scenes info on the making of his classic track “Back That Azz Up.”
Speaking to UPROXX’s Fresh Pair podcast about the creation of the song, he described having tension with Mannie Fresh in the studio.
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“It was like kinda like a war between me and Mannie Fresh,” Juvie said. “I hear the beat and I’m like, ‘That’s not what I rap to, bro. I see where you at with it.’ Sometimes the producers, they be trying to beat us out some of the time.
“I ain’t have time to write so I took one word, the ‘yeah’ — same thing with ‘Ha.’ I took one word and I just finessed it all the way through. Don’t matter what I’m saying in between! Long as I end with ‘yeah,’ I’m good.”
