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Lil Jon is an American male artist from the United States who began his professional career in 1991. His musical style is associated with crunk, hip hop, rap, and Dirty South. He has two children and maintains an official website.
The artist’s work has been referenced by 1,440 other encyclopedia articles. According to Crossref, he has five works. On Last.fm, his music has been played 5,129,298 times by 838,259 listeners. He also has 1,050,000 social media followers.
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Key facts
- Born
- Jonathan H. Smith , ( 1971-01-17 ) January 17, 1971 (age 55) , Atlanta , Georgia, U.S.
- Genres
- Crunk Southern hip-hop EDM
- Occupations
- Rapper record producer disc jockey entrepreneur music executive
- Instruments
- Vocals keyboards synthesizer drum machine sampler
- Works
- Recording production
- Years active
- 1991–present
- Labels
- Epic Republic Geffen Interscope Black Market
- Formerly of
- Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz
- Spouse
- Nicole ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2004 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 2022 )
- Website
- liljon .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jonathan
- Family name
- Smith
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Atlanta
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Islam
- Genre
- Southern hip-hop
- Instrument
- synthesizer
- Record label
- BME Recordings
- Official website
- liljon.com
- Image
- Lil Jon.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Lil Jon
- date of birth
- 1971-01-17
- birth name
- Jonathan H. Smith
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- social media followers
- 1050000
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Encyclopedic overview
Jonathan H. Smith (born January 17, 1971), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper and record producer. Regarded as a progenitor of the club-oriented hip-hop subgenre crunk, his production and voice presence were instrumental in the genre's commercial breakthrough in the early 2000s. He was also the frontman of the group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, with whom he has released five albums.
Having been credited on most crunk releases throughout the 2000s, Lil Jon produced several of the genre's Billboard Hot 100 hits including "Salt Shaker" by Ying Yang Twins, "Cyclone" by Baby Bash, "Damn!" by YoungBloodZ, "Freek-a-Leek" by Petey Pablo, "Goodies" by Ciara, and "Yeah!" by Usher. The latter won Lil Jon a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance as part of his five Grammy Award nominations. As a lead artist, three of his own singles—"Lovers and Friends" (with the East Side Boyz featuring Usher and Ludacris), "Get Low" (with the East Side Boyz featuring Ying Yang Twins), and "Snap Yo Fingers" (featuring E-40 and Sean P)—peaked within the chart's top ten. His debut studio album, Crunk Rock (2010), was met with lukewarm critical and commercial response.
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