He's right... but he's also wrong. He doesn't mix the entire time and some who have seen him may argue that he doesn't mix at all.

He could've made a press release about being a Dj long time ago.......lol

Not sure how good he is but he's not lying about being a dj in the past.

Lil Jon was a DJ waaay before the whole crunk thing. He used to play nothing but real hip-hop at the clubs and on the radio here in Atlanta.

Did you know he produced the Dynamic Duo remix to Capelton's 'Tour'? You know the reggae song with the children's story beat? Yeah, that's Lil Jon.

He really does know how to mix. I used to listen to him and Searcy every weekend at the Warehouse, previosly known as the Phoenix. And he spun that realness on WRFG and I think WRAS, plus he also had a Reggae show at one point on V-103.

Don't get it twisted, that crunk shit is not the real Lil' john.

Yes Lil' Jon was a Dj before he made it big as a rapper, I thought it was common knowledge.

oh yeah, all of that during like '94-'96

People in Atlanta know whats up with Lil Jon and his DJing. He's definitely legit.

Ain't that some sheet..

i had no idea...good to know...idk but from what i read on that magazine article supposedly he dropped the hobby after a few weeks ,mind explainnig how he was on the radio within only a few weeks of spinning??

wait i just went back to the article and re-read that...nevermind

id buy lil jon being a Dj before lil wayne & Pauly D

:P

He's also cross-eyed so he wears dark sunglasses all the time... which is another big +1

All he has to do is get on the mic and yell ........... WHAT ...YEAH!.... LET'S GO! ......at exactly 120 bpm and throw in the next track over it!

LOL!

Instant Party Break! !!

Lmao haha thats 2 funny

i saw lil john spin a 2 hr HOUSE/ELECTRO set @ Star Room in the hamptons a few years ago, he killed it lol

Skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet

PUT YO PUT YO HANDS UP!UP!UP!

lol jon came to my city and threw a show, he was djing and rapping, here is a a pic..
www.twitpic.com

Lil Jon is wicked...

did yall know that Paul Wall was actually a DJ before he was a rapper?

Yeah... I think he had a radio show on shade45 a little while back

I was gonna add that part, but didn't want to put him out there like that! :-)

No need to misquote... lol Jon

hahaha

Watchwww.youtube.com

I hear more talking than mixing. =/

youre gonna base your opinion on Lil Jon's DJing based on a 2 minute clip of him DJing on youtube? Stop being such a n00b.

Rad reading bro. I never created an opinion of his DJing based on that video. I said there was more talking than mixing in that video.

after seeing that tranny i didnt even bother to see the rest of the video...god thats just wrong...ugly.. umm whatever that thing is?

lol...

LoL Jon

Here are some shots of Lil Jon djing on 3 turntables in a video

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I remember he was heavy into production on the Soso Def Bass All Star compilations. So the house inspired tracks he does now is not far from what he was producing in the mid 90's.

ive heard lil jon used to really throw down big in the house\electro scene in the ATL, ive heard him do partys where they didnt announce he was DJin (multi DJ format) cause he didnt want everyone ecpectin to hear crunk stuff. Dude is legit

I have a mixtape he did recently, its really well put together, he isn't mind blowing like enferno's recent shit, but he's solid enough that he can do a whole night.

im sure he is decent.prob can mix.

i def dont think hes trying to be enferno, thatsa whole different ballgame there

This thread shows you how uninformed the newer generation of DJ's truly are. Lil Jon has been DJing since way back. Shit, Even Fat Man Scoop has been DJing since his days hanging out with Roc Raida and The XMEN. Common Knowledge for those who truly care about the music world.

Don't forget about Biz Markie! Uh...A one-two, uh one-two

Biz stops by SF to DJ a few times a year.... YEAHHH BUDDY!!

N I MIX!!!!!

Common Knowledge, really?? i wasnt born in the 80s..

alliedow.files.wordpress.com ?

I always get suspicious when a "hiphop" dj doesent have his 1200s battle style and they dont have doubles....

of course, there ARE always exceptions.

if you started DJing before 1985, you probably have your TT's set up disco style. No one ever complains about Kid Capri and his TT set up

All of this happened in the mid to late '90s

if he wasnt born in the 80s that would make him somewhere between 5 and 10 when this was happening, he probably wasnt doin market research on lil jons club activities at the time

yup im 16

give Manny Rize a break. He is young like he said. It is however common knowledge. If I'm not mistaken, Dr Dre & Ludacris were also both DJ's prior to becoming rappers/enterpreneurs

You guys are really missing the most inportant point here..........

i197.photobucket.com

LOL!

i think ludacris was a radio dj and dr dre was in the world class wreckin' cru

Watchwww.youtube.com

+10

Common Knowledge?

Who even CARED about Lil John until 3 years ago?

haha ice cube... "world class wack crew"

Lil Jon actually opened for me and my DJ mentors back around '90' for a college event when I went to Morehouse. My boy in Indianapolis still has the billboard flyer with Lil Jon's name below ours in small print... boy times have change, LoL.

3 years ago??....so noone cared about lil jon until 3 years after his last album....5 years after the best album he put out??..and 3 years after he produced\featured on a shit tons ofsingles that still get play in the club....the better question is what the hell has he been doin the last 3 years that anyone cares about

3 years was 2007 right...well lets see there was


Year with the East Side Boyz
1997 Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album
2000 We Still Crunk!!
2001 Put Yo Hood Up
2002 Kings of Crunk
2003 Part II
2004 Crunk Juice


From 2003 to 2005, while still with the East Side Boyz, Lil Jon produced hits like "Salt Shaker" by Ying Yang Twins, "Yeah!" by Usher, "Freek-a-Leek" by Petey Pablo, "Shorty Wanna Ride" by Young Buck, "Shake That Monkey" by Too Short, "Let's Go" by Trick Daddy, and "Girlfight" by Brooke Valentine. Lil Jon entered the San Francisco Bay Area hyphy music scene in 2006 with his collaborations with Bay Area rapper E-40: Lil Jon produced E-40's single "Tell Me When To Go" and had E-40 and Atlanta rapper Sean P on his own "Snap Yo Fingers".



ya your right johnny boy that dude was wack until 07 wasnt he

Lol.

he started out djing and producing miami bass. he djed at clubs and strip clubs. then he got into hip hop and the whole crunk scene. I saw him dj maybe 5 years ago before his current electro phase. he played ac dc, metallica, guns and roses, etc... he is a wild guy.

he might be able to mix and stuff, but if you got 1000 people together who wanted to see lil jon "dj" and gave them a quiz on what they wanted to see him do:

play songs and mix them in a technically proficient way
perform a song
yell crazy shit and lose it

which ones do you think they would choose?

You tell 'em Bezzle!

dirty dirty baby SHOW EM HOW DA SOUTH DO!!!!! LOL

JD and Lil Jon were recently signed by SKAM as DJs - JD is not bad, he actually mixes and of course talks on the mic - I have yet to hear Lil Jon.

He got his first MPC, or SP1200 (i forget which one) from Beat Master Clay D, who did the Miami Bass classic "Boot The Booty".. I believe this was circa 1989ish..

i dig lil jon. he got respect for real DJs.

Man, I (and the rest of the Tristate area NEVA heard of Lil Jon Boy, until he started carrying' goblets on BET.

Like I said...who knew?

I thought he worked at KFC before becoming a rapper?

who knew?? lets see in 02 kings of krunk came out

Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums # 2
The Billboard 200 # 14
Top Independent Albums # 1

The album's second single, "Get Low" (with the Ying Yang Twins) reached the top 5 in a composite worldwide R&B chart (compiled from US, German, French, UK and Australian R&B charts) in 2003 and internet download charts.


and heres a list of video games he appeared in Video games
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
25 To Life (cameo appearance)
Def Jam: Icon
Need for Speed: Underground "Get Low" song is featured in this game
Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix

and the pre 07 movies ghe was in

2004: Soul Plane
2005: Boss'n Up
2005: Hip-Hop Honeys: Las Vegas
2006: Date Movie
2006: Scary Movie 4












ya whos heard of this local joker

Those DVD's are dope as fuck!

I'm not a gamer, I was always too busy to go to the movies, and nobody in NY cared about him until Get Low came out....

end of story...

and get low came out in 2003....its 2010...thats more than 3 years ago

excuse me 2002, 8 years ago

This.

and johnnys doin his damnest to show there were some uninformed cats in the early generations too lol

Wow, time flies...

I don't pay attention to dates anymore with Today's BS....

But yeah before GET LOW, nobody around the MECCA OF HIPHOP (NY/NJ Stand UP), knew what a Lil' Jon was...except people who worked for the Porta Potty companies...

could it be possible that noone around NY knew about lil jon before get low because get low was on his first national album and only his 2nd produced single??

Also are you gonna tell me noone in NY listened to Bia Bia....that was in the top 5 on 106 and park and a reccurring track on the basement for most of 01 and 02...before get low jumped off

also how does a song that came out in 02 count as "todays bs"

Anything after BIGGIE is "Today's BS".

And NO, Lil Jon wasn't on anybody's radar (HERE IN THE MECCA OF HIPHOP),...y'all sayin' he's been DJ'ing for YEARS and that it was "Common Knowledge"...

GTFOFH...lol.

lol dude he was a local dj at the time not to mention from what ive seen\heard he djed alot of house, edm, and booty sets so i wouldnt dout the mecca of hiphop would pick up on that even if he did get big


Ludacris got his start as a radio DJ too

I suppose that's "Common Knowledge" too?

C'mon JOHNNY Can I get a No Homo? talking about your personal nicknames in a public forum? I don't think its that kind of forum.

Uhh..... yes?

lil jon - did the play it at your own risk remix!
and most of so so def allstars releases.

he did alot of miami bass sounding stuff earlier in his career.dont get me wrong get low put him on a world map but he was dope before that in my opinion.

ha!

That's funny, but let me tell you about a TRUE STORY that just happened 5 minutes ago, and was tettering on creating an entire thread about it....

But now you gave me the opening I need...so here goes!

So, I go to the store to get some condoms (becuz the wife messed up her pillz), so I'm standing in line behind this couple, and low and behold, THEY'RE buying condoms too...

Except they purchased some tight azz LIFESTYLE condoms...-->>>www.condomdepot.com

So you know me.... :-)

I noisily put the Magnum XL's on the conveyor belt....--->>www.condomdepot.com

And I could see his wife lookin' at my crotch, like......WOW......

ha ha....

And if I recall, he was quietly behind the productions scenes on this familiar classic:
Ghost Town DJ's - My Boo '96

www.discogs.com

It's funny how some of us fail to understand that artists had to get their start somewhere. If you lived in the region or city where your >>insert favorite artist<< got his/her first start....you'd probably know a lot more than an average fan.

I know many non-black people and friends who still think Outkast's 1st single ever was Ms. Jackson in 2000 :)

It's so many examples...we would be debating for days

yep my boo also :)

BlA BlA!

NY/NJ Standing UP, im gonna agree with @djjohnnym_vsl3 on this one. before get low, wasnt he an ATL local? no one in ny had heard of him....at least I hadnt...

I also didnt know that luda got his start as a radio dj... you learn something new everyday

why u acting like a BIA BIA!!!!!

to my tristate peeps, sure you may not have heard of him, but i'm sure you heard songs or played songs that he produced or remixed. he was a force for many years before he started yelling over all the songs he made...

fixed your quote for ya lol, ya bia bia had some major nation play and kinda layed the groundwork for his future work, it had that 1st person video of someone (chyna whyte) goin through the club pushin people, it had krazy bone in it too. That video got mad play on 106 and park and the basement....i think it had its fair share on MTV too.


If anyone wants some more background his father was a damn NASA engineer i forget what his mom did but they had a HUUUGE house that lil jon used to throw huge crazy partys in durring high school, he djed those partys and he made tons of connections in ATL from em. Lil Jon then began as a club DJ before the time came for him to establish a solo career in the industry when Jermaine Dupri invited him in 1993 to come work for So So Def Records and named him the executive vice president of A&R from 1993 through 2000. While working on his label duties, he added radio host into his resume, hosted a reggae show on the Atlanta radio station V103, and also remixed and produced tracks for such acclaimed artists as Too Short, Xscape, Total, Usher, 112, and Whitney Houston just to name a few.

After making a name for himself, this Atlanta, Georgia native formed Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz in 1996 alongside pals Big Sam and Lil Bo. Having party rap, bass music, and dirty south as their musical styles, the three some released their first album “Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album” on October 21, 1997 which spawned the famous Atlanta club anthem “Who U Wit?.” Album after album the trio rose to stardom and was widely known among music lovers.

Thanks! Yeah I heard he was big on reggae too thats why he got the braids

only reason that story sticks in my head is cause ive always been awestruck that a well off son of a nasa engineer and (i think his mom was like a diplomat or something (no santana)) who got a job as one of the heads of sosodef....would end up being famous for screamins YEAHHHHH WHHHHATTTTT and OOOKKAYYYYY



Gotta love this grand country of ours lol

i was also suprised shynes dad was like a presidenat of a country

omg these quotes.. haha

I already knew this, he's got a cameo in corina summertime, summertime video and dj'ing. Believe it was he that even produced it. see below @ 30 secs. I actually ripped this from my PO series. Still bang this track

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The hamptons eh? Someone is classy! lol Being an electro dj myself, I would've loved to see him drop some electro house! Color me jealous!

Electro is out

Good thing I spin more than one genre then huh? lol

Electro out,2.0 Easter egg sync button in

I find this easter egg very useful. It gives me more time to "mix". And by "mix" I mean drink copious amounts of liquor.

Gives me time to do shots of patron and do the Jesus pose and not use headphones and talk to girls that look like they belong in bang bros all at the same time

@ :42 - needle is not on the record. but it's a music video, so its not like he was really spinning anyways