Hot Boxing

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{{Infobox album

| name = Hot Boxing

| type = studio

| artist = Magnapop

| cover = Magnapop - Hot Boxing.jpg

| alt = A close-up on the face of a woman who is holding a cigarette in her right hand and exhaling smoke. The photos is tinted red and has "magnapop" written in blue along the top and "hot boxing" written in yellow toward the center.

| released = {{Start date|1994|7|5}}

| recorded = August 1993

| venue =

| studio = *Pedernales Recording (Spicewood, Texas)

• Bosstown (Atlanta, Georgia)

| genre = Pop punk, pop rock, power pop

| length = {{Duration|m=41|s=30}}

| language = English

| label = Play It Again Sam/Priority

| producer = Bob Mould

| prev_title = Big Bright Cherry

| prev_year = 1994

| next_title = Fire All Your Guns at Once

| next_year = 1996

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Hot Boxing

| type = studio

| single1 = Slowly, Slowly

| single1date = 1994

| single2 = Lay It Down

| single2date = 1994

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r203815|pure_url=yes}} |title=Magnapop > Hot Boxing |last=Demalon |first=Tom |website=Allmusic |accessdate=2009-06-17}}

| rev2 = Billboard

| rev2Score = very favorable{{Citation |last1=Verna |first1=Paul |last2=Gillen |first2=Marilyn A. |last3=Cronin |first3=Peter |date=1994-06-23 |title=Album Reviews |periodical=Billboard |location=United States |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |volume=106 |issue=30 |page=58 |issn=0006-2510}}

| rev3 = Robert Christgau

| rev3Score = {{Rating-Christgau|Neither}}{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=Magnapop |title=Magnapop |publisher=Robert Christgau |date= |accessdate= }}

| rev4 = Rolling Stone

| rev4Score = favorable{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/magnapop/albums/album/184872/review/5946097/hot_boxing |title=Music reviews - Magnapop Hot Boxing |last=Corio |first=Paul |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=1994-12-29 |accessdate=2009-06-17}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| rev5 = Sun Zoom Spark

| rev5Score = favorableSun Zoom Spark Volume 2, issue 3 (June 1994), review by Dermot Hack

| noprose = yes

}}

Hot Boxing is the second studio album by Magnapop, released in 1994. "Lay It Down" and "Slowly, Slowly" were released as singles. Music videos were created for "Lay It Down", "Slowly, Slowly", and "Texas". Having Priority release the album was a radical departure from the label's earlier emphasis on rap.{{Citation |last=Morris |first=Chris |date=1994-07-30 |title=Declaration of Independents: Priority Goes Magnapop; BOC Remade |periodical=Billboard |location=United States |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |volume=106 |issue=31 |page=49 |issn=0006-2510}}