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Lil Jon
| Exuberant, loud-mouthed, and regularly adorned with a bejeweled pimp chalice at hand, Lil Jon was the charismatic figurehead of the Dirty South crunk movement that arose from the Atlanta area around the turn of the century.
Jonathan Mortimer Smith, better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, actor, producer and member of the crunk group Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. Lil Jon formed the group with friends Big Sam and Lil Bo, they released five studio albums and had many hit songs including Get Low, which featured the Ying Yang Twins and reached #1 on the Billboard 100. He released his debut solo album, Crunk Rock, in June 2010. Lil Jon has also produced many hit urban singles (“Salt Shaker” by Ying Yang Twins, “Yeah!” by Usher, Freek-a-Leek by Petey Pablo, Shorty Wanna Ride by Young Buck, Shake That Monkey by Too $hort, Let’s Go by Trick Daddy, and Girlfight by Brooke Valentine) and has made the terms “OK!”, “What?!”, and “Yeah!” a familiar calling amongst his friends and followers inside and outside of the hip hop genre. 2011 saw Lil Jon featured on Mixmash Records with the mind-blowing single "Turbulence" released together with Laidback Luke and Steve Aoki. |
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