dRED-i want to do the impossible: give left-coast depth to shallow Southern crunk. Crunk is merely party music. Even early hiphop had more to it than being the life of a party—Kurtis Blow’s “The ...

Lil Jonstirred up a Southern hornet's nest on "The Breakfast Club" this week when he split the crunk music roots between Atlanta, New Orleans and Memphis ... and DJ Paul has something to say!!! The ...

Born on this day in 1972, Jonathan Smith—better known as Lil Jon—is one of Hip Hop’s most vibrant and unforgettable personalities. As a rapper, producer, DJ, and actor, Lil Jon was instrumental in ...

Complex: When you were kind of absent from the forefront of the Crunk music movement, would you say that Crunk still existed without you? Lil Jon: Well, the music definitely survived, because DJs are ...

Twenty years ago, the dominant (read: mainstream) music scenes contained, among many things, sonic extremes: On one side of the spectrum, you had commercial nü metal, a.k.a. the Linkin Parks and the ...

"The energy from these records, that's what makes crunk so popular; that's why it's winning, because it makes you move a certain way," says Lil Jon, sounding far more mellow than his bellowing stage ...

Lil Jon, already an icon of crunk, can now add Muscle Beach Venice glory to his stacked list of accomplishments. As the Crunk Rock artist celebrated on social media, Jon recently bagged a third-place ...

What is crunk? It's get-people-on-the-dance-floor club music that combines synthesizers, modified electric guitars, machine sounds, and a few catchy lyrics layered over booming bass lines. No one does ...

Before Al Kapone's first gangsta-walk down the red carpet -- before his homespun Memphis hip-hop boomed from obscurity into a marquee role in "Hustle & Flow" -- the rapper maintained a decidedly ...