When crowning 2004’s hip-hop ‘man of the year,’ the obvious choices may be Usher or Kanye West, but, sit back and think about it for a second and the clear victor is Lil Jon. Producing a bulk of the ...

After back-to-back multi-platinum albums in 2002 and 2004 with Kings Of Crunk and Crunk Juice respectively, Lil Jon set his eyes on a lofty goal: to craft an album combining his patented Crunk sound ...

In 2007, Lil Jon set a Guinness World Record after purchasing the world’s largest diamond pendant. The pendant, proudly draped from a chain around his neck at awards shows, read “Crunk Ain’t Dead.” ...

Lil Jon is grateful for his early exposure to the proven power of punk. In a new interview for Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli's Popcast (Deluxe) podcast, the recent Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII ...

Oh, well. It’s going to feel like a club when Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz take the stage tonight. Crunk, a term that comes from the nightclub culture of Atlanta — probably a contraction for “crazy ...

At its best, Crunk Juice isn't so much a recapitulation of Lil Jon's previous work as an amplification of it. The beats are beatier. The synths are synthier. The screaming is screamier. "It's the most ...

The ascendance of Lil Jon has to be among the strangest in a pop-music world where strange ascendance is a matter of course. He was a regional hip-hop figure who became famous, basically, for yelling ...