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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1971-01-17
Discography
- Damn!2003
- Yeah!2004
- Snap Yo Fingers2006
- That’s How I Go2009
- Krazy2009
- I Do2009
- Do You Remember2009
- Crunk Rock2010
- U Don’t Like Me2010
- Jizzle2010
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- Listeners
- 838,259
- Total plays
- 5,129,298
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Jonathan Mortimer Smith (born January 27, 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia), 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, and they released five studio albums and have had many hit songs. He's prehaps best known for his iconic single "Get Low", which featured the Ying Yang Twins and reached #2 on the Billboard 100. He released his debut solo album, 'Crun
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision
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- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
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- Safety, Activity, and Immune Correlates of Anti–PD-1 Antibody in Cancer
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- Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future.
· 2003 · cited 9,939x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,223x
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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
- Official website
- liljon.com
- Image
- Lil Jon.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- 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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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.