It was released as a single on March 1, 2004 and is Juvenile's and Soulja Slim's only number one hit on the U.S.

It held the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks from August 7, 2004, and was the first number one for both Juvenile and Soulja Slim.

[1] Although not planned as a tribute, it came out as one of the more popular posthumous songs because of Soulja Slim's sudden death in November 2003, before the recording process was released (though the beat and lyrics had already been recorded by Soulja).

[2] Cleveland.com commented that "Slow Motion" has “one of the catchiest choruses of any hip-hop song of the [2000s] decade”.

In the middle of the video there are cameo appearances by the rappers Birdman and Lil Wayne, signalling the end of animosity between Juvenile and Cash Money.