Lil Jon Needs To Fall Under A Truck

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0340/eddy.php

But wait....who are the Surf MC's? The hip hop equivalent of....http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c422/c4226570233.jpg ???????

I like all of the random, nonsensical attacks on Alex in NYC you've been spouting lately. It's like you're drunk at a dinner party.

:-(

etc.

"The album even beat out such stiff competition as Dr. Dre's rap classic The Chronic at the Soul Train Awards for Best Rap Album that year [1993]."

It sounds great in the living room alone too, though!

i think this is the kind of question that answers itself.

does anyone know when crunk became a noun? i'd never heard it used like that until southern rap became 'big' again this year.

You tell me.

Does anyone else remember this or am I just cr8zy?

Lil Jon, according to Chris Weingarten who interviewed him a couple weeks ago, has apparently always been a big Dead Kennedys and Ramones fan. Which might in part explain the mosh pits at his concerts.

Sorry I didn't mention yr Bone Crusher piece, Sterling; I also left out Yancey Strickler on Killer Mike, Kandia Crazy Horse on Bubba Sparxxx, Tony Green on LOTS of stuff, etc. (I was only thinking the past month or two. But the Voice's crunk-consciousness is indeed nothing new.)

(From Vibe.) (The pattern of every single music magazine article on new Southern rap-- Lil Jon is the crunk-is-the-future guy and then David Banner says 'Well, we aren't all about the crunk stuff' and then the T.I./Killer Mike/Youngbloodz interview. And then the sidebar explaining the slang.)

I guess that makes sense too.

Much like Onyx, the Ink Spots are proto-crunk.

but it's not quite "crunk"
the way Lil Jon, Ying Yang are,
neither is Banner

This is why people think rap sucks nowadays, because all they get exposed to is crap like Lil Jon, and miss out on the good shit.

Oh well.

Perhaps I shouldn't separate rap into "real" and "false", because that's fucking stupid on a "true metal/false metal" level, but if you're insinuating that there is no rap above the bottom of the barrel aesthetics of Lil Jon, then you are by and large a fucking idiot.

but that lil jon/usher thing is kind of amazing.

SXSW News »
Lil Jon and Tori Amos to play SXSW

Lil Jon and Tori Amos will play La Zona Rosa on Thursday, March 19 as part of the Universal Republic Records showcase.

love them both :D

Duet?

I thought "crunk" was an adjective that implied "crowded, happenin' and hoppin'," as in "we're the type of people who make the club get crunk".

You tell me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:58 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just replace "and" with "ft."

Never been down south? I'm Third Coast Born like C-Note. I've been getting paid on these H-Town streets since I could walk. I've rolled with Keke, Pookie, ESG, Flex, everyone. I bought the first UGK tapes out of the trunk of Pimp C's Grand Prix when they did shows at Club Venue in Corsicana. Get your mind correct, you wannabe Athens thug. I've been to Athens. I know how you bitches roll. Come to Acres Home or Cloverland if you think you're hard and you want to learn how the shells burn.

― d k, Wednesday, December 17, 2003 7:06 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The first time I heard Lil Flip was on an episode of Fastlane. I'm fucking lame. I drove through the Midwest once, when I was a kid. I mostly remember the hotels. I saw the baseball stadium in Chicago, on the way through, just from the highway. I love expensive running shoes. I have more Radiohead CDs than UGK ones. But sometimes I just want to pretend! "Don't rap about what you saw in the Scarface movie, nigga, when you can't even spell Uzi, nigga. We live this."

― d k, Wednesday, December 17, 2003 7:09 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's skeet skeet, not skit skit, right?

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, March 20, 2004 12:20 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Lil Jon and Tori Amos will play La Zona Rosa on Thursday, March 19 as part of the Universal Republic Records showcase.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:04 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

that crowd will be hilarious

"good album but too many skeets"

lil jon would still find a way to survive...

where are we discussing the "Turn Down for What" video because uhhh wow

whoooooa

yeah it's even crazier than the one for "Pon de Floor" (though quite similar really)

about a week ago I heard "Turn Down For What" in the club and I turned down and left

lol

the whiney will not tolerate anyone badmouthing turn down for what

If anyone wants to explain the appeal of these country-ass, bellowing morons, please go right ahead.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:01 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd say "never change" but he didn't

is Turn Down For What considered trap? the Harlem Shake kind, not the Lex Luger kind. I think I'd have to experience it in its normal context to properly loathe it.

ummm, just watched the video and that was something

lil jon gave us so much joy i'm fine w/ him getting EDM money

truuu. It's not even that I don't like "Turn Down For What" (it's aight) so much as it's not the vibe I want when I'm out

yeah no i'm with you i don't think i would turn up to that song either

i would

is anyone in the video really completely comfortable with the vibe either?

very into the "turn down for what" remix

banger

it is amazing to me that a metalhead like phil would hate probably the most metal-influenced mainstream rapper of the 21st century

Like this samples Slayer and was directly inspired by Suicidal Tendancies' "Institutionalized."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEE5_yfNbFg&feature=kp

"turn down for what" is probably my song of the year. figures jon would come in and hop on a lame trend (what do we call this, EDM?) and do it better than any of these jokers

he's been doing edm guest appearances for years now

lil Jon is seriously amazing on turn down for what

TD4W is incredible

no avoid the truck Jon pls