Before Chappelle, most people pigeonholed Lil Jon as a monosyllabic crunk rapper.
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It died for a while just during the 2000s, the crunk era.
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At one point, she cheekily blends Beethoven's 5th symphony with crunk beats.
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So crunk, what ended up becoming trap now, I was onto that then.
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Which begs an important question: do our arboreal ancestors also imbibe crunk juice for kicks?
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This classic twerk anthem solidified Lil Jon as the rightful heir to the crunk throne.
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I plead the fifth on REROOTS and hope fans of CRUNK are happy to see it here.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO A tremendously infectious, potently throbbing, deliriously up-tempo song that blends mellow hyphy and mellow crunk.
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Emo and metal and witch house were there, but so was crunk, trap, drill, pop-rap, psychedelic soul.
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When the Trump administration is terrorizing immigrants and announcing plans to pull out of the Paris accord and failing to roundly denounce white supremacy, it can feel petty and trivial to make music about how everybody's getting crunk, crunk, or to make videos where whipped cream shoots out of your boobs.
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Never dance alone again with your new friends mystical unicorn, disco dog, crunk cat, and foxy fox. Wireless. Bluetooth.
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This atrocity is also from Punk Goes Crunk, which we've already established as the worst album in the series.
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But then I would turn on the radio and hear like crunk shit like Lil Jon, Ying Yang Twins.
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The post-antibiotic future sounds terrifying, but here's one upside you didn't imagine: swilling Viking crunk juice to stay alive.
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The set list features drumlines and spirituals and afrobeat and crunk and classical and dance hall and screw and big band music.
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The early 10s goth-crunk of Mike Will Made-It and Lex Luger only furthered that approach, getting ever more baroque and theatrical.
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TVT, the Florida-based label best known for pressing Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz's Kings of Crunk, released Pitbull's debut, M.I.A.M.I., in 2004.
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He says "there's a lot of speculative buying" of cannabis-related paraphernalia, especially of pieces by famous artists like Cap'n Crunk, the dragon's creator.
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Also, those somber ass keys make this feel like a crunk version of Three 6 Mafia's "Late Night Tip"—an automatic win in my book.
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Red Bull Music Academy released an oral history of Turbo Crunk, the popular and influential Montreal party started in 2008 by Lunice and Jacques Greene.
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Crunk further developed this, with the timeless "Knuck If You Buck" possibly the greatest example of the tear-the-club-up Dirty South ostinato melody.
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For the first week, I went to a party but I had been hella crunk—I guess and I had my phone plugged into the music.
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A seminal document of Memphis hip-hop history, its programmed drums and evocative lyrics embodies the crunk aesthetic that paved the way for today's trap music superstars.
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Between a Nipsey Hussle tribute and a fun set by pregnant rapper Yung Miami of City Girls, the cruise somehow managed to end as crunk as it began.
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In Montreal there used to be parties with a mix of crunk and soca and dancehall and rap; nowadays you don't see that quite as much around here.
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Lil Jon actually sent the band a case of Crunk Juice as a "thank you" for the reference and would later appear in a Vampire Weekend music video.
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Usain Bolt just threw the sickest party ever at 10,000 feet -- getting all sorts of crunk with his party pals on a private jet bound for Carvinal in Trinidad!!!
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Afroman's producer, Ditch, tells TMZ ... the rapper's glass is no cheap knockoff -- it comes from Debbie the Glass Lady, creator of the Crunk Cup, and goes for about $3,000.
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"I will humbly accept the position as your new CEO," the formidable King of Crunk wrote on Twitter, with caps lock on, mentioning that he was available to start immediately.
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But Bemis has made rock operas, a double-album defense of emo during its most critically reviled period, and covered Ol' Dirty Bastard on a compilation called Punk Goes Crunk.
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Yes, this song has probably been played a million times, but that doesn't erase the brilliance of Lil Jon making a crunk classic that fused the genre with R&B.
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" Then Ebony editor-in-chief Kierna Mayo wrote that "America truly loves what it perceives as Black -- from baby oil to butts, collard greens to crunk -- but actual Black people?
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The twin poles of hip-hop history are New York and L.A., but Atlanta has its own style, one that has evolved over the years from Southern rap to crunk.
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Earlier this week Atlanta crunk group Crime Mob announced that they would be releasing their third studio album later this year—the first project they've put on in over ten years.
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Of course the Soviet Navy officer who commanded the submarine that prevented nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis would want to relieve his subterranean stress with the Kings of Crunk.
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And the record kind of hearkens back to East Side house parties when crunk was just coming out and Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz were just like running everything.
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Co-producers Juicy and Paul joining Lord Infamous on the mic, where the subject matter took on real world interests such as getting crunk and preparing for a coming Y2K armageddon.
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DJ Diesel -- AKA the biggest DJ on the planet -- teamed up with the L.A. producer and crunk rapper for the perfectly titled banger, "BANG," which was originally released back in February.
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The crunk era birthed some of the biggest crossover hits from the city—not only for the likes of The Ying Yang Twins and Trillville but also for Usher and Ciara.
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Brittney Cooper Brittney Cooper, founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective, might not be the most active tweeter, but every story she writes and collective post she shares is worth your full attention.
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They buy these items from a special Sacred Clothing catalog, which for some reason is illustrated with pictures of priests laughing insanely, raising crunk cups to Christ, and posing in close embraces.
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Aside from Max Bemis "oh baby"-ing his way through "Got Your Money" on Punk Goes Crunk, the series tapped into something important: the power of the "pop" side of pop punk.
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By the time the girls had finally run into each other at the Roxy, immersed in flashing lights and the booming sounds of crunk music, they were knucking, bucking, and ready to fight.
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Although its misogynistic lyrics likely wouldn't fit well in today's climate (as Pablo says women's names as if he's checking things off a grocery list), "Freek-A-Leek" is still a crunk era classic.
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The Mississippi rap duo forced their way into public consciousness with 2014's modestly crunk anthem "No Flex Zone" and the delightfully unpicky "No Type" — two songs that were equal parts exhilarating and amateurish.
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But some of that confidence evaporates when she hangs around a practice space used by the Lionesses, a local championship dance troupe whose members practice an aggressive form of unison movement somewhere between crunk and ritualistic war dances.
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A lot of the dancing stuff was on the West Side, but the East Side was very crunk and very turnt up and very 'you need to get security 'cause these little kids is about to go crazy.
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Home to the likes of T.I., Gucci Mane, Lil Yachty, and Young Thug, the city is synonymous with its hip-hop, trap and crunk scenes; even the Grey Lady dubbed it "hip-hop's center of gravity" in 2009.
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After first meeting in high school, Greene made a cameo in the photographer and videographer's spartan black-and-white music video for Azealia Banks' 2011 breakout hit "212," which also featured the former's labelmate and Turbo Crunk cohort Lunice.
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"She's the most complex Black female lead we've ever seen in primetime," Dr. Brittany Cooper, cofounder of Crunk Feminist Collective and assistant professor of women's studies at Rutgers University told The New York Times of the Olivia Pope effect.
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It's also arguably the most defining song of early 2000s crunk, one of rap's most unforgettable eras that brought up-tempo Southern beats by the likes of Lil Jon, Three 6 Mafia and the Ying Yang Twinz to the mainstream.
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"Bickenhead," a self-appointed sequel to Project Pat's 2001 crunk classic "Chickcnhead," twists the original's beat into a sliced-up, percussive marvel, with looped, echoing background yells and eerily insidious electronic trickle augmenting the thick stabs of the electronic bass.
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The Drink of the Viking Warlords Makes a Great Summer CocktailLong before humans had figured out beer, we learned that you can make a damn tasty crunk-juice by…Read more ReadIf it's good enough for Viking warlords, it's good enough for you.
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JG: One thing that I really wanted to touch on is that when I made this record, it's not explicitly "Montreal," but I think it couldn't exist without [Montreal venues] Tarot, Silver Door, Coda, Turbo Crunk parties, and my relationship with my life here.
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By 153, album-oriented rap—especially album-oriented rap from New York—was at or near an all-time low-water mark, and the fight or flight response executives had to snap or crunk or Soulja Boy was throwing the major label world into chaos.
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There's not a ton to say about this song other than it totally lives up to the name, channeling a sound that lands somewhere between Atlanta proto-crunk, which was on the rise, and St. Lunatics pop fanfare, which was the reigning sound of radio.
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His combination of content covering the less glamorous aspects of life in the trap and the therapeutic, raging energy of the previous Atlanta generation's crunk movement inspired some of the most chaotic and creative street music since Three 6 Mafia and Project Pat's heydey.
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His move was Pimp Juice, one of the first major energy drinks to be backed by a rapper, and it led an onslaught of beverages like Ice-T's Liquid Ice, Lil Jon's Crunk, 50 Cent's Street King Energy Shot, Kanye West's Guru Energy, and more.
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If you don't happen to be one of the roughly one million vegans currently living in Germany, you're probably under the impression that "Veganz" must be a name for some underground crunk-hop group that raps about slabs of seitan and the sheer unsustainability of modern agribusiness.
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If you don't happen to be one of the roughly one million vegans currently living in Germany, you're probably under the impression that "Veganz" must be a name for some underground crunk-hop group that raps about slabs of seitan and the sheer unsustainability of modern agribusiness.
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The years that followed would see rap audiences slam-dancing and stage diving; Waka's percussive style of ad libs and arrhythmic one-liners would become the norm; Lex Luger and Southside's towering, post-crunk symphonies would inspire a generation of producers to push deeper into menace and turn trap music into a household concept.
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Outlets like Crunk & Disorderly, The YBF, Necole Bitchie, Concrete Loop, Media Take Out, Straight From the A and Sandra Rose pioneered digital spaces that prioritized news and gossip about well-known black celebrities — Beyoncé, Will Smith, Tiger Woods — as well as "blackfamous" stars either unknown to or disregarded by their print predecessors and white peers.
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To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of "Knuck If You Buck," we pulled together a collection of other crunk songs that your early-to-mid 2000s club experience would've been incomplete without: The official ass-shaking anthem's opening line ("Cash Money Records taking over for the 99 and 2000") is probably the most iconic and foreshadowing introductions in rap history.
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People kind of liked hearing radio hits repurposed with mosh parts ("mainstream, but make it breakdowns"), so the series continued, with variants over the years like Punk Goes 90s, Punk Goes Classic Rock, and, for shame, Punk Goes Crunk—an ill-advised rap covers album which features, amongst other stains, Say Anything doing an ODB cover.
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To me the scene was personified by young DJ collectives like Teens Of Thailand, Silvelink, Faggatronix, Cleft Palettes, and Str8 Necklin who moved away from the "Ferry Corsten in a white linen shirt" clichés of dance music at that time and presented an eclectic, anarchic take on club selecting, bumping grime, 8-Bit, Baltimore, house, and crunk tunes from beneath the brims of their fitted caps.
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The first reference came in 2005 when Kanye freestyled on the YouTube channel Tim Westwood TV ("I ain't no clown like Ronald / Uh, more like Donald / Trump, with the way I get it crunk"), then in 2009's "Flashing Lights (Remix)" ("You fired mothafucka Donald Trump ni**a"), and then in 2010's "So Appalled"("Balding Donald Trump taking dollars from y'all / Baby, you're fired, your girlfriend hired").
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The first reference came in 2005 when Kanye freestyled on the YouTube channel Tim Westwood TV ("I ain't no clown like Ronald / Uh, more like Donald / Trump, with the way I get it crunk"), then in 2009's "Flashing Lights (Remix)" ("You fired mothafucka Donald Trump ni**a"), and then in 20163's "So Appalled" ("Balding Donald Trump taking dollars from y'all / Baby, you're fired, your girlfriend hired").
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The first reference came in 2005 when Kanye freestyled on the YouTube channel Tim Westwood TV ("I ain't no clown like Ronald / Uh, more like Donald / Trump, with the way I get it crunk"), then in 2009's "Flashing Lights (Remix)" ("You fired mothafucka Donald Trump ni**a"), and then in 2010's "So Appalled" ("Balding Donald Trump taking dollars from y'all / Baby, you're fired, your girlfriend hired").
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Equally antagonistic and sincere genre-splicers Brokencyde mixed screamo and crunk in the mid 00s, ended up on Warped Tour and released an album last year for some reason; Tumblr rapper Kreayshawn signed to a major, missed her own wave spectacularly, and disappeared; Crystal Castles elevated inaccessible witch house into an institution off the back of a single Myspace demo before it all went to shit; PC Music marketed themselves all the way to a McDonalds advert.
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Crunkcore (also called crunk punk, screamo-crunk, and scrunk) is a musical fusion genre characterized by the combination of cultural and musical elements from crunk, screamo, pop, electronic and dance music. The genre often features screamed vocals, hip hop beats, and sexually provocative lyrics.
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Crunk Energy Drink, sometimes stylized as CRUNK!!! Energy, is an energy supplement owned by Solvi Acquisition LLC, a privately held company headquartered in Twinsburg, OH.
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The growing interest in crunk music among music producers outside the Southern hip hop scene led to the development of various subgenres of crunk, including Eurocrunk, crunkcore, crunkczar, aquacrunk, acid crunk and most recently, trap music. By the end of 2009, crunk has seen a relative decline in mainstream American music, mostly due to the rising popularity of the trap and drill music subgenres during the 2010s. In 2015, American singer Tinashe incorporated crunk elements in her single "All Hands on Deck" featuring Iggy Azalea.
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Lil Jon states that they were first to use the word "crunk" in a song hook; he claimed that they had started to call themselves a "crunk group" due to this album. However, The New York Times denied that Get Crunk, Who Are You With was the first crunk album ever. He was one of the key figures in popularizing crunk during 1998 and 1999, and produced two gold records independently, before signing to TVT Records in 2001. After being named the "King of Crunk", Lil Jon went on to make collaborations with many popular artist such as Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Ludacris and Britney Spears.
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"Lil Jon: Summer Album Preview 2010", Billboard, May 27, 2010, retrieved 2010-05-31 The album was released in standard and deluxe edition."Crunk Rock", Amazon.com, retrieved 2010-05-31"Crunk Rock (Deluxe Edition)", Amazon.
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CRUNK Energy was invented in 2004 by spirits entrepreneur Sidney Frank.
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"Lil Jon annonce Crunk Rock pour novembre ", Rap2K.com, 11 September 2009.
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"Goodies" is heavily influenced by male counterpart crunk song "Yeah!" and also has been compared to Kelis's "Milkshake." The song makes use of a repeated whistle, "faux operated vocals" in parts and a western guitar riff near the end. "Goodies" is a midtempo crunk&B; song. The song features a whistling beat, with several crunk-pop synths throughout its course.
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Certified Crunk is a compilation by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz.
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Jones, Steve. Review: Crunk Rock. USA Today. Retrieved on 2010-06-11.
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The term has continued to evolve, taking on a negative stigma with police, parents and the media. In 2011, the company which manufactured "Crunk" drink brought out an alcoholic version named "Crunk Juice". This drink was allegedly marketed towards 19- to 21-year-olds – those under the US legal drinking age – resulting in Crunk Juice drinking being blamed as a cause of crime or becoming a victim of crime. The mainstream media began publishing stories in which the term "crunk" was used to refer to "crazy and drunk" criminals.
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In the early to mid-2000s, some crunk music hits like "Get Low", "Goodies", "Yeah!", and "Freek-a-Leek" produced by Lil Jon climbed to the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Other hits produced by Lil Jon included "Okay", "Cyclone", "Girlfight", "U and Dat", and "Touch". "Yeah!" and "Goodies" were the first tracks to introduce the substyle of crunk music and contemporary R&B;, called crunk&B;, to the public. Those two tracks (performed by Usher and Ciara, respectively) were mainstream hits of 2004. Since then, crunk&B; has been one of the most popular genres of sung African-American music, along with electropop, the genre that replaced crunk and crunk&B; in the charts by 2008. The song "Get Low" (2003), performed by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz with the Ying Yang Twins, is credited as the track which put crunk music into the national spotlight. "Get Low" reached the number two position on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart; overall, it spent more than 21 weeks in the charts.
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Crunk is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged in the early 1990s and gained mainstream success during the mid 2000s. Crunk is often up-tempo and one of Southern hip hop's more dance and club oriented subgenres. An archetypal crunk track frequently uses a main groove consisting of layered keyboard synths, a drum machine clapping rhythm, heavy basslines, and shouting vocals, often in a call and response manner. The term "crunk" is also used as a blanket term to denote any style of Southern hip hop, a side effect of the genre's breakthrough to the mainstream.
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Emanuel Wallace of RapReviews gave Crunk Rock a 5/10 rating and wrote "If you're looking for lyrical greatness, you'll be disappointed. If you want an album filled with nothing but trunk-rattling beats you'll be disappointed".Wallace, Emanuel. Review: Crunk Rock. RapReviews.
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Kings of Crunk is the fourth studio album by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz.
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In publications, "crunk" can be traced back to 1972 in the Dr. Seuss book Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!. He uses the term "Crunk- Car" without any given definition. The term has also been traced to usage in the 1980s coming out of Atlanta, Georgia nightclubs and meaning being "full of energy" or "hyped". In the mid-1990s, crunk was variously defined either as "hype", "phat", or "pumped up".
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To give her a title to stand out, Lil Jon dubbed Ciara as the "Princess of Crunk&B.;" Dubbed the female counterpart to "Yeah!" and fellow crunk hit "Freek-a-Leek" by Petey Pablo, Laface looked to capitalize on the success of the previous songs.
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Rolling Stone magazine published "glossary of Dirty South slang", where to crunk was defined as "to get excited". Outkast has been attributed as the first artist to use the term in mainstream music, in the 1993 track "Player's Ball". A seminal year for the genre was 1996, with the releases of Three 6 Mafia album Chapter 1: The End (featuring "Gette'm Crunk"), and Memphis-based underground hip hop artist Tommy Wright III's album On the Run, which featured the Project Pimp track "Getting Crunk". Artist Lil Jon was instrumental in bringing the term further into the mainstream with his 1997 album titled Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album.
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Though rappers not from Dixie had tended to avoid being associated with Southern hip hop music before, Busta Rhymes and Nelly accepted offers to perform on remixes of "Get Low". Lil Jon's album, titled Kings of Crunk, which contains "Get Low", became double platinum. In 2004, independent label Crunk Incorporated signed a major distribution deal with Reprise/Warner Brothers Records for the crunk group Crime Mob, who released the platinum single "Knuck If You Buck". They followed this with their 2006 hit, "Rock Yo Hips". In March 2004, R&B; singer Houston released his crunk&B; hit "I Like That", which reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Nevertheless, crunk was not exclusively associated with Lil Jon and Three 6 Mafia. In its early stages, such artists as Ying Yang Twins, White Dawg, Bone Crusher, Lil Scrappy, Trillville, Youngbloodz and Pastor Troy from Atlanta, and David Banner from Mississippi also helped to popularize crunk music.
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Both "Yeah!" and "Goodies" were the first tracks to introduce the substyle of crunk music and contemporary R&B;, called crunk&B;, to the public. Both of those tracks (performed by Usher and Ciara, respectively) were the main mainstream hits of 2004. Since then, crunk&B; has been one of the most popular genres of sung African-American music, along with electropop, the genre that replaced crunk and crunk&B; in the charts in 2008. After the album's lead single reached the summit of the US Billboard Hot 100, it spent seven weeks at number one, becoming the longest-running number-one debut single by a female artist since 1977 The album's lead single's success exemplified urban music's commercial dominance during the early 2000s, which featured massive crossover success on the Billboard charts by R&B; and hip hop artists.
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Both "Yeah!" and "Goodies" were the first tracks to introduce the substyle of crunk music and contemporary R&B;, called crunk&B;, to the public. Both of those tracks (performed by Usher and Ciara, respectively) were the main mainstream hits of 2004. Since then, crunk&B; has been one of the most popular genres of sung African-American music, along with electropop, the genre that replaced crunk and crunk&B; in the charts in 2008. After the album's lead single reached the summit of the US Billboard Hot 100, it spent seven weeks at number one, becoming the longest-running number-one debut single by a female artist since 1977 The album's lead singles success exemplified urban music's commercial dominance during the early 2000s, which featured massive crossover success on the Billboard charts by R&B; and hip hop artists.
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Crunk Feminist Collection The Crunk Feminist Collection is a collection of essays that take on intersectionality, African-American culture, patriarchy, misogyny, anti-blackness and hip hop feminism. The essays were originally published on the blog Crunk Feminist Collective between 2010 and 2015.THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, Robin M. Boylorn, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; posted online December 19, 2016; retrieved March 8, 2017M Edited by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris and Robin M. Boylorn, three members of the Crunk Feminist Collective (CFC), the book was published in 2017 by Feminist Press. Along with section introductions written by the editors to organize and frame some of the themes addressed, the collection includes popular essays from the blog written by CFC members Crunkista, Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Aisha Durham, Eesha Pandit, Rachel Raimist and Chanel Craft Tanner.
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The album is punctuated with vocal samples and synths that refer back to Southern rap and crunk, including "yup!"s and, on "Axacan", vocal bites of rapper Lil Jon saying "yeahhh!", "what!" and "okayyy!". In correlation, the second section of "Wing" is described as a 'crunk-huayno ballad'.
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Kings of Crunk debuted at number 15 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 71,000 in its first week and as of November 2004, the album has sold 2.2 million copies in the United States. Kings of Crunk was the highest selling independent album for both 2003 and 2004.
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Musically, crunk borrows heavily from Miami bass and 1980s-era call-and-response hip hop. Heavy use of synthesized instruments and sparse, truncated 808 handclaps are staples of the crunk sound. Looped, stripped-down drum machine rhythms are usually used. The Roland TR-808 and 909 are among the most popular.
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Aristocrunk is the debut album by crunk rap group Lord T & Eloise, released in 2006 by Young Avenue Records.
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Crunk Rock is the solo debut album and sixth overall album by American crunk artist Lil Jon, released on June 8, 2010 by BME and Universal Republic. The characters at the bottom of the album's cover are Japanese katakana characters, which read "Kurunku Rokku," an approximation of the Japanese transliteration of the album's title.
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He later released other songs and albums using the term, and has been credited by other artists and musicians as galvanizing use of the term as well as mainstreaming the music genre itself. Lil Jon further popularized the word with his 2004 album Crunk Juice, and has been credited with inventing the potent alcoholic cocktail by that name. This use of "crunk" became synonymous with the meaning "crazy drunk". Non-alcoholic drinks, to which alcohol could be added, were manufactured and marketed under the Crunk brand name, with Lil Jon as spokesman.
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"Ms. Chocolate" is the first official single from Lil Jon's 2010 album Crunk Rock. The song features singers R. Kelly and Mario.
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K-Town Clan is known for introducing the hip hop subgenre of crunk to Malaysia, along with their energetic and high octane performances.
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Tony Crunk is an American poet whose first volume of poetry, Living in the Resurrection, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
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Lil Jon's next solo album, Crunk Rock, released on June 8, 2010, did not feature the East Side Boyz. Three of four singles released from the album have music videos: "What U Gon Do," "Real Nigga Roll Call," and "Lovers and Friends." The fourth single, "Get Crunk," did not have a music video, though it was released on vinyl and got radio airplay.
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The executive producer of M.I.A.M.I. is Lil Jon, based out of Atlanta and known for producing crunk songs, in addition to the Diaz Brothers.
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Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone panned the album. David Jeffries of allmusic.com praised the album, considering it a combination of hard rock and crunk rap.
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Several of the tracks from this project were eventually re-released with Fearless' compilation Punk Goes Crunk, however No Pigeons was omitted from this list.
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In 2005, crunk&B; reached the Billboard Hot 100 number one position with the song "Run It!", performed by Chris Brown. In 2005 and 2006, crunk and crunk&B; conquered the American R&B; charts (and other charts specializing in music with rapping) and replaced hip hop and older styles of contemporary R&B.; Atlanta R&B; group Cherish also gained prominence with their summer 2006 song "Do It to It" where the song debuted at number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of May 20, 2006, later peaking at number 12 for the week of September 2, 2006 and staying on the charts for 21 weeks.
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Studios, Atlanta, GA; Sony Music Studios, New York, NY; Studio 609 Recordings, Philadelphia, PA; The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. In early 2004, Ciara wrote a demo with record producer Sean Garrett, co-writer of Usher's crunk hit "Yeah." After hearing a demo, crunk producer Lil Jon, who also produced and was featured on "Yeah", began to work on the full record, to have it released on LaFace. Originally, Ciara was reluctant to work with the track produced by Lil Jon, reportedly disliking crunk music at first. However, she decided to use the song to go against the grain and deliver lyrics in contrast of female promiscuity lines delivered by fellow female artists.
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The song contains themes of girl power and self empowerment. In 2019, rapper Saweetie sampled Petey Pablo's 2004 crunk hit "Freek-a-Leek" for her song "My Type".
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"Neva Eva" is the first single from Trillville's debut album The King of Crunk & BME Recordings Present: Trillville & Lil Scrappy. The song features Lil Scrappy and Lil Jon.
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Retrieved on 2010-04-29 That same year, Streetz-n-Young Deuces inked a sponsorship from Crunk Energy Drink, which has also sponsored Lil Jon, Pitbull, and Paul Wall. Streetz-n-Young Deuces CRUNK! Energy Page. Retrieved on 2012-03-12. Retrieved on 2008-12-02 Streetz-n-Young Deuces began working on their 6th mixtape, Next Day Air, hosted by Shade 45 DJ, DJ Averi Minor, and sponsored by major blog RubyHornet.com in 2011.
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Crunk was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He received his B.A. at Centre College, an M.A. in Philosophy at University of Kentucky, and an M.A. in Literature and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia. Crunk has taught at the University of Virginia, James Madison University, Murray State University (Kentucky), the University of Montana, Samford University, and University of Alabama Birmingham.The Kentucky anthology, Wade H. Hall, University Press of Kentucky, 2005, , p.
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The album opens with "Push the Button", an uptempo pop, electropop and electronic song. Instrumentation consists of computer beats and electronics. The song was inspired by a limerance between Buchanan and an artist who collaborated with Austin, and is lyrically about a woman's sexual frustration of being unnoticed by a man. The next track is "Gotta Be You", a crunk and R&B; number that runs through a "monotonal crunk-influenced synthesised honking".
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This duo soon became known as Three 6 Mafia. Frequently featuring rappers such as Project Pat, Lord Infamous, and Gangsta Boo on their releases, they became instrumental in the formation of crunk music. In 1997, in Atlanta, Lil Jon, with his group The East Side Boyz, released their first album titled Get Crunk, Who U Wit. These were the first of six albums released by Lil Jon and The East Side Boyz.
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Dance or Die EP is an EP by the crunk rock band Family Force 5 to give fans a preview of their next album which was released on August 19, 2008.
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The Mix Tape is a compilation album released by MC Breed. It was released on September 28, 2004 for Ichiban Records and was produced by DJ Crunk Mix and Mark Watson.
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The term has been attributed mainly to African- American slang, in which it holds various meanings.Oxford English Dictionary It most commonly refers to the verb phrase "to crank up". It is theorized that the use of the term came from a past-tense form of "crank", which was sometimes conjugated as "crunk" in the South, such that if a person, event, or party was hyped-up, i.e. energetic - "cranked" or "cranked up" - it was said to be "crunk".
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The drum machines are usually accompanied by simple, repeated synthesizer melodies in the form of ostinato, to create a hypnotic effect, and heavy bass stabs. The tempo of the music is somewhat slower than hip hop, around the speed of reggaeton. The focal point of crunk is more often the beats and music than the lyrics therein. Crunk rappers, such as Lil Jon, however, often shout and scream their lyrics, creating a heavy, aggressive style of hip hop.
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"Get Crunk", "Trill" & "Firewater" all previously appeared on the Crooked Lettaz album Grey Skies which was released a little over a year before Them Firewater Boyz, Volume 1 on April 20, 1999.
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Retrieved 15 January 2010. He restarted work on the album and stated that he was considering a new 'World Music' direction for the album and a possible change of title, saying "I'm touching so many different kinds of people on this album as well as keeping my core fan base at the same time."Moody, Nekesa Mumbi (2008) "Lil Jon shifts from crunk to 'world music'", Fox News, August 13, 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2010. In October 2008, Lil Jon signed to Universal Republic and the album was rescheduled for a release in early 2009. In March 2009, two mixtapes appeared from Lil' Jon, Rockbox Vol. 1 and 2, with Rolling Stone announcing that Crunk Rock was expected later in 2009.Kreps, Daniel (2009) "Lil Jon Drops Rock and New Wave Mixtapes As “Crunk Rock” Approaches", Rolling Stone, March 23, 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2010. Indeed, the second volume closed with Jon stating "Crunk Rock coming sooooooon". By September 2009 a new date of November 24 was announced for the album's release, although it was still unfinished.
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The song also references Michael Jackson and Bobby Brown and also refers to the crunk style of rap making it one of the first mainstream R&B; tracks to refer to that style.
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"Hey" is a song by Lil Jon featuring 3OH!3. It was released as the second single from Lil Jon's 2010 album, Crunk Rock. It was also featured on the Jersey Shore soundtrack.
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Reanimated is the second remix album by Christian crunk rock band Family Force 5. The album was released independently on June 18, 2013. The album was later released with Capitol Records on October 1, 2013.
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Lil Jon collaborated with Big Sam (born Sammie Dernard Norris) and Lil' Bo (born Wendell Maurice Neal) to form a musical rap group. Sam and Bo both grew up on the east side of Metropolitan Atlanta area (Dekalb County) and thus chose the name, The East Side Boyz. In 1996, the group released their debut single, "Who U Wit?" The song is credited as bringing the term "crunk" into hip-hop currency. In 1997, the group released their debut album Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album.
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Rachel Raimist identifies as a professor, filmmaker, and a crunk Feminist. Raimist is a member of the Crunk Feminist Collective since 2010, the Crunks is a collective of feminist activists, scholars, and, artists. Raimist earned her B.A. and M.F.A degree in Directing, but she also earned her M.A. degree in Women's studies and her Ph.D. in Feminist studies. Being able to teach and the love for storytelling and cameras gave students the accessibility to learn about filming and the roles of females behind the scenes through her.
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Lil Jon is one of crunk's most prominent figures. Crunk music arose from Miami bass music before 1996 in the southern United States, particularly in African American strip clubs of Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis- based hip hop group Three 6 Mafia were "instrumental for the emergence of the crunk style" in the mid-to-late 1990s. Two mixtape DJs from Memphis, DJ Paul and Juicy J, started making their original music, which was distinctive with its "spare, low-BPM rhythms, simplistic chants... and narcotically repetitive, slasher-flick textures".
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The song was produced by FKi & DJ Spinz, who also produced the group's previous single "Make It Rain": however, unlike that song, "Bring It Back" has a more upbeat production, rather than a slower, crunk track.
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References to pop-culture (like the above mention of crunk) and intertextuality with scholastic figures as varied as Ralph Waldo Emerson,Cistulli, Carson. A Century of Enthusiasm University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007, p. 1, p. 19, p.
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Stereogum said that the beat has "the crisp, snapping West Coast minimalism that made Mustard the producer of the moment half a decade ago" and called the squealing melodic loop reminiscent of "prime crunk-era Lil Jon".
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Kings of Crunk was released in October 2002. Based on the success of the album's 2nd single "Get Low", Kings of Crunk made the top twenty of the US album chart in September 2003. In the same year, Lil Jon put out a compilation CD and DVD called Part II, which included remixes of "Get Low" featuring Busta Rhymes, Elephant Man, and the Ying Yang Twins. The singles "I Don't Give a Fuck" and "Nothin's Free" were released To Radio in 2002, while "Play No Games" and "Get Low" were released to radio in 2003.
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Retrieved 15 January 2010.Castillo, Arielle (2009) "Lil Jon, the King of Crunk, Talks New Album, Pitbull, and Fine Wine With New Times", Broward-Palm Beach New Times, September 22, 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2010. Confirmed guests additionally included Roscoe Dash, Mariah Carey, 3OH!3, Whole Wheat Bread, David Guetta, Steve Aoki, LMFAO, Zuper Blahq, DJ Chuckie, Laidback Luke, Elephant Man, Pastor Troy, Ying Yang Twins, Akon, Mario, R. Kelly, T-Pain, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, and Pitbull.Weingarten, Christopher R. (2009) "Lil Jon Teams With R. Kelly, Akon to Make Fans “Wild Out” to Party Album “Crunk Rock”", Rolling Stone, September 10, 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2010. Another single from the album, the RedOne-produced "Give It All U Got", was announced, with a promotional video filmed in Miami in September.Marr, Madeleine (2009) "Crunk king Lil Jon just wants to party", Miami Herald, September 11, 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
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Chairmen of the Bored is the second album by crunk rap group Lord T & Eloise, released in 2008 by Young Avenue Records. The album references a famous joke made by comedian Norm Macdonald about the movie Chairman of the Board.
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"What U Gon' Do" is a single by Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz from their album Crunk Juice and features Lil Scrappy. It is one of the best known songs that Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz recorded together. The track reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 8 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart, and number 13 on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. Two remixes to the song was an addition to the Crunk Juice in the Remix CD. A Jamaican remix featuring Elephant Man and Lady Saw and a Latino remix featuring Pitbull and Daddy Yankee.
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The term crunk is used as a blanket term to denote any style of southern hip hop, it is mainly used to denote a musical style that was originated by Three Six Mafia in Memphis, Tennessee, in the mid-to-late 1990s. It was popularized by Atlanta rapper Lil Jon,"Lil Jon crunks up the volume", New York Times, November 28, 2004 and gained mainstream popularity in the period 2003–04."Southern Lights", Vibe Dec 2003 A typical crunk track uses a drum machine rhythm, heavy bassline, and shouting vocals, often in call and response manner.
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To give her a title to stand out, Lil Jon dubbed Ciara as the "Princess of Crunk&B.;" Dubbed the female counterpart to "Yeah" and fellow crunk hit "Freek-a-Leek" by Petey Pablo, Laface looked to capitalize on the success of the previous songs. In addition to working with Jazze Pha, who produced most of the album, Lil Jon, and Garrett, she worked with several other Atlanta-based writers and producers including Bangladesh, Johntá Austin, Jasper Cameron, and others, while featuring collaborations from Atlanta's T.I. and Ludacris. R&B; singer R. Kelly wrote and produced a track.
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Lord Treadwell and Maurice Eloise XIII (aka Lord T and Eloise) dubbed their own unique rap style "aristocrunk", a combination of the terms aristocratic and crunk. Aristocrunk, also the name of their first album, is meant to describe both a philosophical lifestyle as well as the musical genre itself. Many songs from their albums Aristocrunk & Chairmen of the Bored are accompanied by harpsichord and baroque style music, while others stay close to the traditional Memphis crunk sound. Lord T's raps were similar to the slow train lyrical style of Snoop Dogg, Eloise's style drew more comparisons to Chuck D of Public Enemy.
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In late 2007, then 17-year-old American rapper Soulja Boy released his hit "Crank That", which enjoyed the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks, and was nominated for a Grammy and became one of the main hits of the year, advancing the influence of snap music on the Billboard charts, as well as furthering delving into the crunk genre. During the same year, a number of websites specializing in crunk mixtapes opened, increasing exposure to the genre. Producer T-Pain entered the Billboard Hot 100 with his snap&B; hit, "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')".
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Two more singles, "Don't Go Away" and "I Love You", have been released in 1996, both of moderate success, respectively. In 2015, Fun Factory returned with the single "Let's Get Crunk", the lead single of their fourth studio album "Back To The Factory".
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The album featured the return of the band's former sound, after their previous album, Fashionably Late, featured more of a crunk and rap sound. The album is the first to be recorded without an official bassist, with Charles Kallaghan Massabo playing bass on the record.
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Retrieved December 1, 2015. Pha asked Missy Elliott to appear on the track and she accepted. Elliott recorded her rap verse at the Hit Factory Criteria in Miami. "1, 2 Step" is a Crunk&B; track, which is strongly influenced by 1980s electro music.
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"Crunk Muzik" is a song by rapper Jim Jones from his debut studio album On My Way to Church. It was produced by The Blackout Movement and features rappers Juelz Santana and Cam'ron. It was also featured on The Diplomats' album, Diplomatic Immunity 2.
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Venezia has taken inspiration from doo- wop, northern soul, crunk, dancehall, house, ghettotech, electro house, minimal techno, grime, Baltimore club, freestyle, new rave, dubstep, fidget house and electro.Maurizio Pustianaz, Interview with Drop the Lime, Chain D.L.K., August 21, 2006. Access date: August 28, 2008.
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"The Dardanelles Campaign" article at "Mess and Noise" The sheer inability to categorise their sound has resulted in frustrated music journalists resorting to inventing new genres suck as "post-crunk-nu-rave", "industrial gospel/industrial pastoral" and "neu-gaze". The band neither condone nor deny such titles.
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' At the end of the day, you want an event." Usher was skeptical about whether "Yeah!"—- which is largely composed around crunk —- would be a good choice, given his mindset envisioning "Confessions" as an R&B; record. KP recalled, "Everybody was scared to make that first step.
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These lyrics can often be isolated to simple chants ("Where you from?" and "You can't fuck with me" are common examples). While other subgenres of hip hop address sociopolitical or personal concerns, crunk is almost exclusively party music, favoring call and response slogans in lieu of more substantive approaches.
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In other countries, it was released under the title "E (As In Eveline)" but the track didn't use the "Without Me" sampling. Their song "Yeah!" samples the crunk hit Yeah! by Usher to a similar success. In 2005 they sampled Rune RK's "Calabria" under the name Dirty Laundry.
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He has been a part of the Turbo Crunk crew ever since. In 2008, Lunice released a video for Lazersword's "Gucci Sweatshirt". In 2010, he participated in the London installment of the Red Bull Music Academy. Also in the same year, Lunice performed at the Sonar Music Festival.
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Retrieved on 2010-06-09. Slant Magazine writer Jesse Cataldo gave the album 2½ out of 5 stars and described its songs as "thick, silly concoctions, glazed with bass and defined by endless repetition, whirlwinds of chants and shouts that circle like demented carousels".Cataldo, Jesse. Review: Crunk Rock.
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Hernandez's music is generally categorized as hip hop, or more specifically, scream rap, hardcore hip hop, SoundCloud rap, and punk rap, often incorporating elements of drill, heavy metal, hardcore punk, grime, crunk, trap music, and reggaeton. He cites influences including DMX, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and 50 Cent.
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Siblings and Muscle Shoals natives Angela Hacker (winner) and Zac Hacker (second place) were the top two finishing finalists on the 2007 season of Nashville Star, a country-music singing competition. In 2008, State Line Mob, a Southern rock duo group formed by singer and songwriters Phillip Crunk (Florence native) and Dana Crunk (Rogersville native), released their first CD, Ruckus, and won two Muscle Shoals Music Awards for 2008 for (Best New Artist) and Best New Country Album) of the year. Band of Horses recorded a portion of their album Infinite Arms at Muscle Shoals. Artists signed to the FAME label in 2017 include Holli Mosley, Dylan LeBlanc, Jason Isbell, Angela Hacker, Gary Nichols, and James LeBlanc.
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"Damn!" is a song by rap duo YoungBloodZ released as the second single from their second studio album Drankin' Patnaz. It features crunk artist Lil Jon. It is their biggest hit to date, peaking at number 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, YoungBloodZ's sole top 10 single on the chart.
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Family Force 5's Christmas Pageant is the first Christmas album by the Christian crunk rock band Family Force 5. It was released on October 6, 2009. It was announced on August 29 by the band at the Christian music festival En Fuego that they had just finished recording the CD.
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Idolator's Robbie Daw wrote that the song "follows a dance-pop formula you can hear when flipping to any pop station on the radio." Steve Jones of USA Today perceived that "Scream" achieves the same effect as the "crunk-fueled" "Yeah!" along with "Euphoria". "Scream" contains heavily sexual lyrics.Ramirez, Erika.
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In 2017, Danny Schwartz of HotNewHipHop named the song one the biggest one-hit wonders of 2006, describing it as "a horny, high- octane crunk slapper that begins with a foreboding moment of musical uncertainty before plowing ahead with Huey's raunchy chants an irresistible call to hit the dance floor".
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Brokencyde (stylized as brokeNCYDE) is an American hip hop group from Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 2006. The group's lineup consists of David "Se7en" Gallegos and Michael "Mikl" Shea, and musically are one of the founding groups in the crunkcore genre, which (in general description) is crunk hip hop music with screamed vocals.
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Music styles that originated from Memphis gangsta rap culture include Southern hip hop and crunk, made famous by Three 6 Mafia, Project Pat, and Hypnotize Minds. In the 2000s, the music genre gained acceptance after winning an Academy Award for the song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow.
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"Salt Shaker" is a crunk song released by rap group Ying Yang Twins featuring Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz. It was released on their third studio album, Me & My Brother (2003). The song was released as the album's only single. It reached the top 10 in the United States, reaching number 9.
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Musically, "Break the Ice" is an electro-R&B; song with influences of crunk. The song opens with a choir and features synthesizers. Its lyrics deal with an attraction between two people. "Break the Ice" received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who deemed it as a strong electronic song from the record.
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Lord T & Eloise are a crunk rap group from Memphis, Tennessee. Lord T dresses as an 18th-century aristocrat, while Eloise wears a tuxedo and sported a "24-karat" gold skin. The self-proclaimed "intergalactic time travelers" and "horsemen of the Rapocalypse" said they were on a mission to save rap music.
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"Certified Gangstas" is the first single by the Harlem-based rapper Jim Jones from his album On My Way to Church. The song features fellow Dipset member Cam'ron and Jay Bezel. A music video was created and directed by Jones. The song was fairly successful compared to the next single, Crunk Muzik.
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Cistulli's work A Century of Enthusiasm begins "People of the world, allow me to introduce myself: my name is Carson Harrington Cistulli, ambassador to crunk in the Western Hemisphere."Cistulli, Carson. A Century of Enthusiasm University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007, p. 1 Carson plays with context and language often mixing the vernacular with the scholastic.
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4x4 released their second album Contestant No. 1 in 2007, with the single 'HotGirls.com' featuring a new artist, Fresh Prince (Prince Tamakloe). The song is reputed to have introduced crunk to Ghanaian culture, and earned the group a Ghana Music Award nomination in 2008. "HotGirls.com" was a success, and Fresh Prince eventually joined the band.
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But this time around, we were able to write every song on the album, which makes this album very personal for all of us." They later added, "From this album you can expect realness. Expect to hear all of our individual voices. A lot of crunk tracks like our first single “Do It To It”.
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These three artists have had previous collaborations between them. Ludacris and Usher collaborated with Lil' Jon on the songs "Yeah!" (heard on Usher's Confessions album) and "Lovers and Friends" (heard on Lil' Jon's Crunk Juice album). Usher was also featured on Guetta's 2011 smash hit single "Without You", on Guetta's album, Nothing but the Beat.
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Billboard magazine claimed that the popping sounds of "It's Going Down", however, weren't fingersnapping.Billboard May 6, 2006, "Life's a snap for Yung Joc" Crunk producer Lil Jon also increased exposure of the snap genre to the mainstream by releasing his single "Snap Yo Fingers", which peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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"[ Lil Jon Chart History]", Billboard.com. Retrieved 15 January 2010. In January 2007, it was reported that Lil Jon was still in the studio working on the album, and that recorded tracks included "Roll Call" featuring Lil Wayne and Ciara, and tracks featuring R. Kelly and Nate Dogg."Lil Jon : quelques infos sur Crunk Rock", Rap2K.
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Review: Crunk Rock. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2010-06-11. USA Todays Steve Jones gave it 2½ out of 4 stars and shared a similar sentiment, stating "He has mixed more rock and electronica in with the thumping bass lines, but the message remains the same: Get up and jam, or go home".
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Poirier is well known in Montreal for a series of successful club nights entitled Bounce Le Gros (roughly translated as "Bounce Dude"). At these events Poirier experimented with "grime, crunk, hip-hop, ragga, reggae, booty house, Baltimore breaks...original urban music from all over the world".Barclay, M: "Ghislain Poirier's Bounce le gros" , Exclaim!, February 2006.
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"Krazy" is first single released by Pitbull from his album Pitbull Starring in Rebelution. It features crunk rapper Lil Jon. The song peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. The song samples Federico Franchi's 2007 song "Cream". Another version of "Krazy" that's played in San Diego, mentions all the sites in the area.
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1 and Oral Fixation Vol. 2. He was to appear on the Talib Kweli's album Eardrum, Clipse's album Til the Casket Drops and Lil Jon's album Crunk Rock. Rubin also produced the Jay-Z track "99 Problems", and was featured in the song's music video. He also worked with Eminem on the song and music video "Berzerk".
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Producer Drumma Boy called Atlanta "the melting pot of the South". Producer Fatboi called the Roland TR-808 ("808") synthesizer "central" to Atlanta music's versatility, used for snap, crunk, trap, and pop rap styles. The same article named Fatboi, Shawty Redd and Zaytoven the four "hottest producers driving the city". As of 2018, Atlanta Trap music continues to dominate the pop music charts.
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Crunk Juice debuted at number 31 on the US Billboard 200 chart. In its second week, the album jumped to number three on the Billboard 200, selling 363,000 copies. It became Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz' first top-ten album in the United States. In the third week, the album remained in the top-ten on the Billboard 200, selling 196,000 copies.
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Crunk Juice is also the name of a once popular flavored malt beverage launched by Gila Brew Co., LLC. It was made by 7th Street Brewing. They announced in 2011 they were going to relaunch the brand and have new package designs and a new flavors with a smoother taste. It is already available to buy in several major US cities like Philadelphia.
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Produced by Lil Jon, "I Love U" is a hip hop song with elements of crunk music. Lyrically, it is about a dominant female. "I Love U" received mixed reviews from music critics. It failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100, but sold over 13,000 copies in its first week and peaked at number 75 on the Hot Digital Songs chart.
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4x4 is a Ghanaian hip hop musical group formed in 2000 by Captain Planet (Sylvanus Dodji Jeoffrey) and Coded, formerly Abortion (Russell Edem Avornyo) with the help of Ronnie Coches and Bright Bling Sparkles (Buk Bak). They are reputed to have brought crunk to Ghana. In 2007, Captain Planet and Abortion were joined by a new artist named Fresh Prince (Prince Tamakloe).
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"Give It All U Got" was supposed to be the fourth single from Lil Jon's debut studio album, Crunk Rock. It was released digitally on November 3, 2009 in iTunesLil Jon - Give It All U Got ft. Kee. iTunes. The song features Kee and it was produced by RedOne. The song was left off the album when it was finally released in 2010.
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The album consists of bouncy dance music mixed with crunk, combined with either R&B;, pop or hip hop music. The ballads on the set utilize Ciara's breathy vocals, as the uptempo pieces. Lyrical content varies on the album. Songs like "Goodies" issue a message of female empowerment and abstinence, and this is contradicted as she hints at teasing sex.
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Moved, Joe sits on a park bench, reexamining his life. At the ball, Joe's men use false bottoms in the cashboxes to steal most of the money. Joe has a change of heart and tells his right-hand man, the "Crunk" (Alan Carney), that the money is going to war relief. But Zepp overhears and forces him at gunpoint to collect the loot.
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The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English: A Crunk Omnibus for Thrillionaires and Bampots for the Ecozoic Age. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006, p. 201. The phrase refers to the offense many people took to the November 2010 decision by TSA to begin full body patdowns of airline passengers in the U.S. who refused to go through a full body scanner.Parker, Ashley.
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Snap music (also known as ringtone rap or snap rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music derived from crunk that originated in the South in the late-1990s, in Bankhead, West Atlanta, United States.Vibe Jun 2006, "Oh Snap!" It achieved mainstream popularity throughout the mid-late 2000s, but declined shortly thereafter. Popular snap artists include D4L, Dem Franchize Boys and K-Rab.
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"Sixshot Bits: Brief News On Three 6 Mafia, Lil Jon, Trey Songz & J-Holiday ", SixShot.com, February 19, 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2010. By August 2008, Lil' Jon had freed himself from his contract with TVT, giving him the rights to the master recordings for Crunk Rock, in return for dropping his objection to the sale of TVT's assets to The Orchard Group.
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Inhale C-4 $$$$$ marks the first time in Ferraro's career that he approached a hip hop style. Critic Jonathan Dean suggested that this direction was Ferraro's acknowledgement of his mixed race. Categorized by writer Rory Gibb as a southern hip hop mixtape and by Impose magazine as crunk,Spool, Ari (December 20, 2011). "Bebetunes, "INHALE C – 4 $$$$$ MIXTAPE”. Impose. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
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"The Anthem" is a song by Pitbull, released as the second single from his 2007 album The Boatlift. It features crunk rapper Lil Jon. The intro line, as well as the song's main hook, is taken from the 1970s Latin hit "El Africano" by Sonora Dinamita. It samples the song "Calabria 2007" by Danish producer DJ Rune Reilly Kølsch, also known as Enur.
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"Oh Yeah (Work)" is the third single from American rapper Lil Scrappy's second album Bred 2 Die Born 2 Live. The song's beat structure incorporates typical southern hip hop snares as well as Lil Jon's signature crunk synths. Although on the release of the album, the single was an unlisted track. It features E-40 and Sean P of the YoungbloodZ.
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Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2009-12-15. Lead single "I Can Transform Ya", lyrically about introducing someone to a luxurious life, has a robotic-crunk groove, while making a heavy use of synthesizers and guitar riffs. "Pass Out" featuring Eva Simons, a Eurodisco song, samples the "Call on me" Steve Winwood's "Valerie", which was also used in Eric Prydz worldwide dance hit, "Call on Me".
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Atlanta has a thriving music industry and is considered to be a capital of hip-hop including crunk, of R&B; and its offshoot neo-soul, and of gospel music - in addition to a thriving indie-rock and live music scene. Classical, country and blues have historically been well represented. From the 1920s through 1950s the city was a major center for country music.
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The lyrics deal with drug use in nightclubs and party environments. Band frontman Kele Okereke says he was inspired to write the song after hearing Busta Rhymes' song "Touch It". He also described the song as having a "crunk-like" effect. A cover version of "The Prayer" by KT Tunstall is included in Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 2, and on her single "If Only".
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They then released an EP, Punk Life, in November 2006, recorded before Largen's arrest. The EP included three original songs and three "crunk rock" covers of rap songs. One original track "Symbol of Hope" reflected the events of Hurricane Katrina and the government's lack of enthusiasm to respond to the events. The track also featured backing vocals by Jason Navarro of the Suicide Machines.
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Every year the Bawls Team goes to Dallas, Texas to be the official drink sponsor for QuakeCon, one of the largest BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) Events in North America. In 2009, Buppert left Hobarama. In 2010, amidst financial issues, a restructuring plan for Hobarama was put into place. In 2012, Bawls Guarana announced that they had purchased energy drink brands Crunk Energy Drink and Strut & Rut.
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A new song, "Follow Me Down", was written for the compilation album for the film Alice in Wonderland with Neon Hitch. The pair also supported All Time Low, Boys Like Girls, Third Eye Blind, and LMFAO on The Bamboozle Roadshow 2010. Prior to the release of Streets of Gold, 3OH!3 was featured on the track "Hey" by Lil Jon on his album, Crunk Rock in 2010.
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The song, influenced by hip-hop, has been described as an "upbeat tune", is composed of pounding drums, and features referee whistles and hand claps. It also has synthpop elements, featuring a "synthesized guitar riff." Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times says the song has a robo-crunk groove. According to James Montgomery of MTV News, the song is an "adult club track".
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"Break the Ice" is an electro-R&B; song with influences of crunk. It is performed in a moderate pop groove. The song is composed in the key of F minor and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 120 beats per minute. According to Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly, "Break the Ice" sounds similar to Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right" (2006).
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Throughout 2010 and 2011, Lunice toured internationally. Lunice and Hudson Mohawke formed the group TNGHT, for the 2012 release of an EP on Warp and LuckyMe, following a successful headlining Warp's SXSW showcase earlier in the year. The duo met in 2008, when Lunice booked Hudson Mohawke to perform at one of his Turbo Crunk parties. In 2017, Lunice released his debut solo studio album, CCCLX.
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Crime Mob is the self-titled debut album by Atlanta rap group Crime Mob. It produced three singles, "Knuck If You Buck", "Stilettos (Pumps)" and "I'll Beat Yo Azz", with music videos shot for all of them. "Knuck If You Buck" was certified Platinum by the RIAA in June 2006. Crime Mob was discovered by Tommy Phillips IV of Crunk Incorporated known as #LiTgod Serious Lord.
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"Lovers and Friends" is a song by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz. It was released in November 2004 as the third single from the group's album Crunk Juice. The single features American singer Usher and American rapper Ludacris, who had collaborated with Lil Jon on Usher's hit single "Yeah!" earlier that year. The single peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Hated on Mostly is the second studio album by American Southern hip hop sextet Crime Mob from Atlanta. It was released March 20, 2007 via Reprise Records. Production was handled by Detral "Doc Jam" Treadwell, DJ Montay, Lil Jon, and group members Lil' Jay, Cyco Blac and M.I.G., with Crunk Incorporated serving as executive producer. It features guest appearances from Lil Scrappy, Pimp C, Bohagon and Mike Jones.
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Cultural and ethnic diversity are also part of the fabric of Maggotron's sound. Men and women of various nationalities have helped work to achieve the sound that Maggotron is noted for. Internationally known, DXJ'S Contributions to Miami Bass, Electro or Street Music has influenced Break beat, Crunk, Ghetto Tech and other genres of music. Miami Bass/Electro itself is a hybrid branch of the Hip Hop /Electro Music genre/style.
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Prophet is an independent record label based in Memphis, Tennessee, formerly owned by DJ Paul and Juicy J. As a group act, Prophet Entertainment goes by the stage name Prophet Posse. From 1991 to 1994 it launched new independent musical artists linked mainly to the strands of American music such as crunk, Hip hop, Gangsta rap, Southern Hip Hop and Horrorcore. As of 2009, the label is assumed defunct.
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The Groove City recordings were intended to remind fans of the Evolution era. The first single "Never Ever" (featuring Young Jeezy) falls under this theme and is similar to previous single "Promise". Crunktown tracks are remincent of single "Goodies" and the trademark genre that Ciara is associated with. "High Price" (featuring Ludacris) was the original lead single and an example of what Ciara had created under the crunk theme.
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After the show, she appeared on Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School and worked as a temporary radio personality for Hot 107.9, where she interviewed Crunk&B; trio, Taurus. ;Smiley Leilene Ondrade appeared on Flavor of Love. After the show, she was the runner-up of Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School and later appeared on I Love Money 2. ;Wire Jesselynn Desmond appeared on Flavor of Love 2.
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The album was certified multi-platinum by the RIAA in August 2004. The song was also featured in Need For Speed: Underground, which plays in the main menu as well as gameplay. In 2003, the group released Part II, a remix album of previously released singles with a two new songs. In 2004, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz released what would be the group's last studio album, Crunk Juice.
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"Do You Remember" is the second single by British R&B; artist Jay Sean from his American-debut album, All or Nothing. The song features Jamaican dancehall musician Sean Paul and American crunk rapper Lil Jon. The song was produced by J-Remy and Bobby Bass. The song was released to U.S. radio stations on 20 October 2009 and released as a digital download on iTunes on 3 November 2009.
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In 2019, the song is heard during the trailer for a new mode in Gears 5 called Escape. A remix of the song that is completely produced by Lil Jon is featured on the bonus CD of Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz' album Crunk Juice. It is not to be confused with the song of the same name by Travis Barker, which also featured Twista and Lil Jon.
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It was then announced that the band's debut album, Underdog Alma Mater, would be released on April 29. The album sold well and was soon followed by the album's second single, "She's a Lady", which was released on July 14. The music video for "She's a Lady" was released shortly afterward. During this time, the band also covered "Men in Black" by Will Smith for the compilation album Punk Goes Crunk.
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The song gave Ciara the title as the "First Lady or Princess of Crunk&B.;" The song's accompanying music video, directed by Benny Boom, featured guest appearances from BoneCrusher, Monica, Rasheeda, Jazze Pha, Young Jeezy, and Lil Jon. The video depicts Ciara dancing in front of a blue and white background with her backup dancers. This scene is where Ciara first does the "Matrix," which later became her signature move.
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Love embarked on his solo career. Living in the same neighborhood as the group, he became close friends with the member "Mikey", who later asked Love to join. Toby Love is recognized as the artist that made the subgenre of crunkchata popular. As the result of having recorded half of his debut album in Miami, Love became a fan of crunk music, and incorporated it into his bachata music.
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"Pop, Lock & Drop It" is an uptempo American crunk song and the debut single by the rapper Huey, produced by Calvin Miller Production, released from his debut album Notebook Paper. The song was released on September 19, 2006. In early March 2007, "Pop, Lock, and Drop It" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 98. The single peaked at number six, becoming his first and only hit.
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After training in the United States after "Cry Eye", Son returned to Korea and released an EP, Mini Album Vol.1, with a focus on electronica (departing from her previous style of crunk pop) on April 29, 2008. The lead single, titled "Bad Boy", was produced by Brave Brothers. Kahi (former leader of After School and Pledis labelmate) was her dance teacher, and was featured in the "Bad Boy" music video.
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"Tengo Un Amor" was written by Love with additional composition by Edwin Perez who also handled production for the song. The song was written with Spanglish lyrics combining crunk hip hop with bachata. In his review of the parent album, David Jefferies called the song "an incredibly smooth, lush, and glittery ballad", selecting the song as an "Allmusic Pick". Love later called "Tengo Un Amor" the "door-opener" for all of his future success.
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"Gotta Be You" is a crunk&B; song that lasts for three minutes and 40 seconds. Ben Hogwood of musicOMH described it as an "electric piece of club R&B;". According to group member Keisha Buchanan, the Sugababes are the first British band to incorporate the American sound in their music. Kitty Empire of The Observer called it "brooding R&B;" and noted its reminiscence of "Try Again" by American R&B; singer, Aaliyah.
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"Cyclone" is the second single by American rapper Baby Bash from his album Cyclone. The song features T-Pain on the last verse and Mickaël on the intro and chorus. The song was produced by Lil Jon and the song's beat structure incorporates typical Southern hip hop claps and pizzicatos, as well as Lil Jon's signature crunk synths and whistles. The Recording Industry Association of America certified the song as double platinum.
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"Tengo Un Amor" was written by Love with additional composition by Edwin Perez who also handled production for the song. The song was written with Spanglish lyrics combining crunk hip hop with bachata. David Jefferies, while reviewing the parent album, called the song an "incredibly smooth, lush, and glittery ballad" while listing the song as a selected "Allmusic Pick". Love later called "Tengo Un Amor" the "door-opener" for all of his future success.
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In 2004, Lil Jon recruited Dr. Know, Jenifer and Earl Hudson to back him on a version of his song "Real Nigga Roll Call", which interpolated the music of "Re-Ignition". The recording appeared on the limited-edition release of Lil Jon's album Crunk Juice. The accompanying DVD featured footage of the session. H.R. performed his song "Who's Got the Herb?" with the band 311 on June 22, 2004, in Long Beach, California.
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During the 1990s and 2000s, Sterling maintained a low profile, while still releasing albums and producing. He still garners rave reviews and fans worldwide. In 2005, Usher, Ludacris and Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz covered his song, Lovers and Friends from his 1990 album, Trouble. The song was released on the quadruple platinum album Crunk Juice and was the winner of two BMI Billboard awards including ‘Hip Hop Song of the Year'.
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Cooper has written several books. Her first book was Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, published in 2017 by University of Illinois Press. A book review from National Public Radio (NPR) called Beyond Respectability "a work of crucial cultural study." Cooper also co-authored and edited The Crunk Feminist Collection (published in 2017 by The Feminist Press at City University of New York) along with Susana M. Morris and Robin M. Boylorn.
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"Get Low" is a song by American rap group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, featuring American hip hop duo Ying Yang Twins, released as a single in 2003. It first appeared on the 2002 album Kings of Crunk. The song reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 20 on the US Hot Digital Songs. It was number five on the top Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop songs of 2003.
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Outside of the United States, "Get Low" peaked within the top ten of the charts in the United Kingdom, the top twenty of the charts in Germany and the top forty of the charts in Australia, Austria and New Zealand. It is also known as a breakthrough single for the crunk genre, as the song's success helped it become mainstream. It is listed number 99 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip- Hop.
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PTAF (acronym of Pretty and Taking All Fades) was a hip hop crunk girl group from Los Angeles consisting of Kandi, K'Duce, and Alizé. They are most known for their viral song "Boss Ass Bitch", which garnered the attention of the public and scored them a record deal with Capitol Records in January 2014. In mid 2015 PTAF was dropped from Capitol Records after failing to find success with a second single.Zeichner, Naomi.
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Crunkcore has received criticism and the genre has been poorly received by music reviewers. The Boston Phoenix has mentioned criticism of the style, saying that "the idea that a handful of kids would remix lowest-common-denominator screamo with crunk beats, misappropriated gangsterisms, and the extreme garishness of emo fashion was sure to incite hate-filled diatribes". Deathcore has been criticized by members of the heavy metal community for its use of breakdowns.
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Originally known simply as "Transformer", it is an electro-composed song infused with hip hop, crunk and "industrial" R&B; musical genres, while making use of robotic tones. It is lyrically about introducing someone to a life of luxury. "I Can Transform Ya" received mostly positive reviews, noting the song's club feel and catchiness. The song peaked the highest in New Zealand, at number seven, and was also certified platinum in the country.
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No Problem is the second single by rapper Lil Scrappy from the album The King of Crunk & BME Recordings Present: Trillville & Lil Scrappy. The music video was inspired by the film Training Day and featured appearances by Lil Jon, Game, Snoop Dogg, and WC. The song reached number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number 10 on the Billboard R&B;/Hip-Hop chart. It debuted at number 8 on the Rap charts.
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Grein, Paul (24 November 2011). "Chart Watch Extra: Adele Tops Brit Tally ". Yahoo. Retrieved 3 February 2012 In November 2009, Sean's next single from his album, "Do You Remember", was released and featured Jamaican dancehall superstar Sean Paul plus US Southern crunk rapper Lil Jon. It entered the Hot 100 top ten on the week of 9 January 2009, breaking "a three-week streak of no titles moving into the top 10" since December 2009.
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Though it was clear that the track was going to be released as a single, the record company kept it under closure to introduce the upcoming crunk&B; style with newcomer Ciara and her "Goodies" track. No other single was released from Complicated due to a recall on the album for having a content-protector and some discs would not play, so Nivea decided to leave Jive Records not long after the album's release.
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Slant Magazine compared this to Britney Spears-esque "layer of tease to the mature" in her early work. Utilizing influences from 80's dance music, qualities of the work of Destiny's Child and Aaliyah are evident. "Goodies" is heavily influenced by male counterpart crunk song "Yeah" and also has been compared to Kelis's "Milkshake." The song makes use of a repeated whistle, "faux operated vocals" in parts and a western guitar riff near the end.
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Drawing from a diverse palette of influences, the group admitted that the Beastie Boys, David Bowie, Busta Rhymes, The ODB, 8Ball and MJG, Al Kapone were all been influences. While tracks like "Million Dollar Boots" and "Penthouse Suite" have a more refined, classical edge with the incorporation of strings, other tracks like "Pillz" and "Dance Move" have more of a crunk, dirty south edge to them, featuring 808 drums and a heavy bottom end.
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After a decade of cultivating underground cult status in Memphis, Al Kapone began to achieve some mainstream success starting with his role on the soundtrack to the film, Hustle & Flow. The soundtrack included one solo track, titled "Get Crunk, Get Buck". He also wrote and produced "Whoop That Trick" and wrote "Hustle & Flow (It Ain't Over)", both tracks performed by Djay. His song "The Deepest Hood" featured in the 2007 film, Stomp the Yard.
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"Gotta Be You" is a song by English girl group Sugababes from their fourth studio album, Taller in More Ways (2005). It was written by Tricky Stewart, Penelope Magnet and Terius Nash, while Dallas Austin produced the song. There are two versions of the song, one with vocals by founding member Mutya Buena, and another featuring Amelle Berrabah's vocals, Buena's replacement. "Gotta Be You" is a crunk&B; song that lyrically discuss reacting to judgements created by the media.
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After releasing their debut single, the group went on hiatus until 2011. They then got together and performed at the International College of Music's hip hop contest in 2011, where they once again reached the top. K-Town Clan eventually released their second hit single Give Em The Ughh and their debut studio album Playground in September 2011. Their second album Crunk Cowboys and the Moon $hine Music, is expected to be released on January 31, 2018.
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"Never Scared" was the theme song for the 2003 Atlanta Braves MLB, and was featured in the Madden NFL 2004 video game. Bonecrusher was featured on the cover of PlayStation Magazine in 2004, and was also a featured character on Def Jam: Fight for NY, by EA Games. He is credited as being one of the inventors of the crunk sound. Bonecrusher was featured on the third episode of the Sacha Baron Cohen satirical program Who Is America?.
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The lead single from the album, titled "Supahood", featuring American rappers City Girls and Kash Doll, was released on September 20, 2019. It is a R&B; song with trap and crunk influences, described by critics as a "fierce ladies night anthem" and as a "street anthem". "The Rain", produced by Jazze Pha, was released as the second single on October 25, 2019. The song debuted at number 28 on the US Digital Song Sales chart.
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The book collection received positive acclaim from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Literary Hub, and Ebony. The collection is a series of essays that originated on the blog The Crunk Feminist Collective, which Cooper was the co-founder of. In 2018, her book Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower was published by St. Martin's Press. In it, Cooper explores black feminism and anger, specifically the anger of black women, as a basis for revolutionary action.
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More recently, Atlanta is also known as a center of crunk music, an electric bass- driven club music, whose most visible practitioner has been Atlanta-based producer/hype man/rapper Lil Jon. Before moving to Atlanta, Young Jeezy lived in Macon, Georgia. Several sludge metal groups have emerged from Georgia, incorporating several features of stoner metal and progressive metal. Such bands include Atlanta's Mastodon and Savannah's Baroness and Kylesa, which have recently garnered an international audience.
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Their style is widely considered as horrorcore, crunk and gangsta rap. The group began in 2014 in Memphis, Tennessee with Lil Infamous (Ricky Dunigan, Jr.) and Locodunit (Thomas Dunigan) for the sake of rapper DJ Paul. Seed of 6ix released several Mixtapes & EPs starting with Planet 6ix Chpt 3.6 on May 1, 2015. As well as solo projects on Young N Dumb, their independent label. Signed to Scale-A-Ton Entertainment DJ Paul’s label in 2018.
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The album features song- writers Elliott Trent, Dimitri McDowell, and American gospel singer Deitrick Haddon. According to Pitchfork journalist Briana Younger, “A“ is a solid homage to the duo’s beloved Atlanta roots and the city’s sound that has permeated just about every corner of popular music. Elias Leight of Rolling Stone writes catching pop’s waves has always been one of Usher’s greatest strengths, whether that means collaborating with Lil Jon when crunk was going mainstream or charging into EDM.
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"Oh" is a song recorded by American singer, Ciara who wrote the song with Ludacris (who features on the song), Andre Harris, and Vidal Davis. "Oh" was produced by Harris and Davis, who work as Dre & Vidal. The song was released on March 1, 2005 as the third single from her debut album, Goodies. The downtempo Crunk&B; song features hip-hop elements and a heavy bassline, and can be seen as an anthem to her hometown, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Musically, "Bubble Butt" is an electronic dance music (EDM), hip hop, and dancehall song. It is a "swaggering" and energetic number that draws heavily from crunk inspirations. It was composed with the intention of being played at clubs. The track features squawking samples, heavy bass, "squiggly synths", clap beats, and bubble-popping sound effects, culminating with the "bub-bub-bubbing hook". Consequence of Sounds Derek Staples noted the resemblance between "Bubble Butt" and Major Lazer’s "Pon de Floor" (2009).
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"Bubble Butt" has received mixed reviews from music critics. Sam Gould of MOBO complimented the "maddening beat" calling it an "infectiously naughty number which will have staggering effects on pretty much anyone within a 5-mile radius." AllMusic's David Jeffries called the song "fat", with the "Ying Yang Triplets" (Mars, Tyga, and Mystic) making sure that crunk is not over. Matthew Jacobs writing for HuffPost said it "is a bizarre electro- feminist anthem ... or just bizarre".
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The group's style has changed throughout the years - the first albums created by Sel are usually categorized as Hip-Hop and rock works. With their later albums, Sel turned to a more Acid-House/R&B; style, but still remained loyal to their original fast- paced rap vocals and light crunk. The group has worked with many European artists and created over thirty songs that have ranked high on the top 40 Hottest Lithuanian Songs List.
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The music video for the song also appears on the DVD The Will Smith Collection. It was also included in the album All Time Greatest Movie Songs, released by Sony in 1999. It was also featured after the end credits of the VHS release of "Men in Black". It was also covered by Forever the Sickest Kids for the compilation album Punk Goes Crunk & by Alvin and the Chipmunks for the album The A-Files: Alien Songs.
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The new single from the album, the disco-tinged "Give It All U Got", was released in November 2009. Lil Jon held a Listening Session for the album in 2010. Rap-Up reported that the album is set for a June 8, 2010 release.Lil Jon Rocks with R. Kelly, Game, and Soulja Boy on Solo Debut. Rap- Up. In an interview with Billboard in May 2010 he confirmed that Crunk Rock will be released on June 8.
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Signers included writer and activist Darnell Moore, actor Danny Glover, professor Robin D.G. Kelly, and writer and professor Kiese Laymon. Later, on July 10, 2014, AAPF organized a conversation moderated by GRITtv's Laura Flanders on the necessity of expanding “My Brother’s Keeper.” Featured speakers included AAPF co-founder Kimberle Crenshaw, Professor and Co-Founder of The Crunk Feminist Collective Brittney Cooper, Founder and Executive Director of Girls for Gender Equity Joanne Smith, as well as Professors Kristie Dotson and Rosa Linda Fregoso.
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The singles, "Who U Wit?" (produced by Lil Jon) and "Shawty Freak a Lil Sumthin" (produced by DJ Toomp), charted on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs at No. 70 and No. 62, respectively. In 2000, through the newly created label Black Market, the group released their breakthrough album We Still Crunk! which featured the single, "I Like Dem Girlz," which reached No. 55 on the Billboard R&B; and No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks charts.
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He was blown away by the group's immense energy. Leach told HitQuarters: "It was like early Beastie Boys, when they had the energy of a rock group but they were rapping, and that energy is what crunk music is all about." By 2002, Leach signed Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz to TVT Records with Black Market delivering the albums to the label. The group released the album Put Yo Hood Up, which combined previously released tracks with new ones.
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"Bia' Bia'," which featured rappers Ludacris, Oakland rap legend, Too Short, New York based DJ, Big Kap, along with newcomer, New Orleans's rapper Chyna Whyte was the group's first single to be played nationally. "Bia' Bia'" peaked at No. 97 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 47 on the Billboard R&B; chart. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in June 2002. In 2002, the group release their sophomore studio album under the label, Kings of Crunk.
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More touring occurred throughout 2007, when they also began working on their second full- length album. They worked with producer Travis Huff, who had previously worked with bands such as Fall Out Boy and Yellowcard, to produce the album (due out Summer 2008 but didn't come out until January 2009). Additionally, Whole Wheat Bread also had been working with rapper Lil' Jon on his anticipated solo album, Crunk Rock. The band contributed music, as well as producing tracks with many well-noted rappers.
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He writes his songs on his laptop, often while traveling on airplanes, and prefers to play a larger number of his original work compared to his remixes. At one point, his remix of Black Eyes by Snowden was the most requested song at a New Zealand radio station. He has also remixed songs by Daft Punk, Kaskade, and Klaxons. The sound of Le Castle Vania is specifically intended to avoid the common southern influence of crunk, and focuses primarily on Euro- electro influences.
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Confessions is the fourth studio album by American singer Usher. It was released on March 23, 2004, by Arista Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2003 to 2004, with its production handled by his longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri, along with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and Lil Jon, among others. Primarily an R&B; album, Confessions showcases Usher as a crooner through a mixture of ballads and up-tempos, incorporating musical genres of dance-pop, hip hop and crunk.
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The song reveals a complete departure from Ciara's previous style, neither a sensual ballad nor incorporating Crunk&B; influences. It embraces an electro sound also strongly incorporating funk music via a retro 1970s-style guitar presence and also elements of disco and soul music. Many critics noted the similarities between the song and music on Timberlake's album FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006). Critics gave the song mixed reviews, complimenting the song's funk and retro feel and the chemistry present between Ciara and Timberlake.
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Korn and Atlanta crunk rappers Dem Franchize Boyz did a mash-up of their respective hit singles at the time, "Coming Undone" and "Lean wit It, Rock wit It", titled "Coming Undone wit It". It was produced by Jermaine Dupri and Scott Spock from The Matrix, and was first released on AOL in April 2006. A video for "Coming Undone wit It" was released on the DVD portion of Chopped, Screwed, Live and Unglued. This is the official remix to both songs.
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Frost's first two albums were very unsuccessful, so she decided to take a break from her career. In early 2005, Rasheeda began to look for a new label, and she signed a dual contract with D-Lo Entertainment and Big Cat Records. In late 2005, she began work on her third studio album, and aimed to show a sexier side of herself, with more crunk, uptempo, and dance oriented tracks as she had matured from the girl that everyone knew from her first two albums.
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It has that Bmore Club sound to it, so you already know it's a go!" Additionally WHTD said, the track was "pop-pop-popping and is guaranteed to get everyone on the dance floor." Andy Kellman of Allmusic noted "Gimmie Dat" as a standout track from Basic Instinct Allison Stewart of The Washington Post said the track "offers a throughline to Ciara's crunk past." Matthew Horton of BBC Music said that the song's "high-speed electro-jacking is a lesson in ferocious dancefloor inspiration.
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Alex also has a side project with members of Japandi and Witt called Qwermicide. In 2008, Say Anything featured on the Punk Goes Crunk album covering Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Got Your Money". In 2009, Max and his wife, Sherri DuPree (From the band Eisley) formed a small side project named "Perma" and were selling the demo during the 2009 tour. In early 2010, the band announced that they will be opening for Angels and Airwaves on their LOVE tour which kicked off on April 5.
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Track ten, "Give a Chick a Hand" is a new kind of futuristic crunk sound of music. A different approach to the typical "she stole my man" song, Mýa is actually giving kudos to the woman who stole her man. She knows she’s hot, but wants to learn how the next woman actually got what was hers. "All in the Name of Love," the album's eleventh track was produced by J. R. Rotem and samples the chilling theme song from the classic scary movie Halloween (1978).
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Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine found elements of middle of the road music in the ballads. The album opens with the up-tempo dance song "Lose My Breath", a track detailing a man full of empty promises to a woman. It is musically complete with military, marching-band drums and keyboard stabs and the backing track contains various sound effects. "Soldier", the second track with T.I. and Lil Wayne, the only featured artists on the album, contains elements from Southern hip hop and Crunk&B.
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In 2009, the New York Times noted that after 2000, Atlanta moved "from the margins to becoming hip-hop's center of gravity, part of a larger shift in hip-hop innovation to the South." This had a lot to due with the massive popularity of Waka Flocka Flame's 2009 debut mixtape. Producer Drumma Boy called Atlanta "the melting pot of the South". Producer Fatboi called the Roland TR-808 ("808") synthesizer "central" to Atlanta music's versatility, used for snap, crunk, trap, and pop rap styles.
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Crime Mob is an American hip hop group from Atlanta consisting of six members: M.I.G., Cyco Black, Princess, Lil' Jay, Diamond, and Killa C. The group is best known for their songs "Knuck If You Buck" and "Rock Yo Hips". After an arrest in 2003, member Killa C left the group. Crime Mob reunited and performed at Atlanta's Hot 107.9's Birthday Bash in 2012; Princess was the only absent member. Crime Mob was discovered by Tommy Phillips IV of Crunk Incorporated known as #LiTgod Serious Lord.
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Crooked Lettaz was an American hip hop duo from Jackson, Mississippi, composed of Brad "Kamikaze" Franklin and Lavell David Banner Crump. In 1998, Crooked Lettaz signed to independent label Penalty Recordings. Later that same year, the duo's first promotional-only single, "Caught Up In The Game", was released followed by 1999's two-track single, "Firewater" (featuring Noreaga)/"Get Crunk" (featuring Pimp C from UGK). Crooked Lettaz's full-length album, Grey Skies, was released on April 20, 1999, peaking at #75 on the Billboard's R&B; chart.
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"Wait (The Whisper Song)" is a 2005 snap song released by Atlanta crunk rap duo Ying Yang Twins off their album U.S.A. (United State of Atlanta). The song consists of a minimal bass pulse, a few finger-snaps, and whispered, sexually explicit lyrics. The song's unique sound was mixed by Atlanta sound engineer Joel Mullis,Artist Direct listing for "Wait (The Whisper Song)" who is currently affiliated with the production company 340 Music. "Wait" became a hit single, reaching No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Furthermore, "Goodies" become the second ever crunk song to top the UK Singles Chart, after "Yeah!" by Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris achieved the feat 10 months previously. In Switzerland, the song debuted at number thirty-eight on the Swiss Singles Chart, before peaking at number ten five weeks later. In Australia, "Goodies" debuted at number twenty-two on the ARIA Singles Chart, before falling to twenty-three in its second week. The song rebounded in its third week to reach a new peak at nineteen.
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Although it is considered a West coast hip hop song, the song's beat structure incorporates typical southern hip hop snares as well as Lil Jon's signature crunk synths and whistles. The song peaked at number 13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, which remains E-40's highest charting single as lead artist to date. The track is credited to have popularized the use of T-Pain as a hook singer on hip hop tracks. The song was certified platinum by the RIAA on March 31, 2016.
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Dash described "All the Way Turnt Up" as "new-age crunk": Soulja Boy, the song's guest, likened it to a stylistically exaggerated version of his own single "Turn My Swag On". "Show Out" contains an infectious chorus and was described by Amazon as a "flashy, soon-to-be club anthem". Typically, Dash exhibits a nasal, high-pitched delivery that frequently displays signs of being digitally altered and layered "as if there were 20 Dashes per track, whining and echoing as far as the ear can hear".
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Greene began creating electronic music when a high school history teacher introduced him to Aphex Twin, precipitating a realization that "music doesn't have to be angry white men over a guitar." Greene and his friends would throw club parties called Turbo Crunk. From 2008 to 2011, Turbo Crunk's key players were Hadji Baraka, Ango Seb Diamond, Lunice, and Greene. In 2011, Greene released the single "Another Girl," which Pitchfork included in its list of "The 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So Far (2010-2014)".
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Punk Goes Crunk is the seventh compilation album in the Punk Goes... series released by Fearless Records. The album is composed of popular hip hop songs performed by various post-hardcore, metalcore and pop punk bands. This is the first and (as of 2017) only Punk Goes... album to carry a Parental Advisory for the sexual, vulgar and sometimes violent nature of the songs. Both All Time Low's cover of "Umbrella" and Forever the Sickest Kids' cover of "Men in Black" were made available for streaming on March 6.
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Since 2004 Dent has been Managing Director at Daddy's House Recording Studio, located in the heart of New York City. He has also been the director of Bad Boy Entertainment, which is run from the Daddy's House studio. Many important names in the hip-hop, rap, R&B;, and crunk industries have recorded at Daddy's House and have had their albums engineered, mixed, and mastered by Dent personally. Some of these include: The Notorious B.I.G., Shyne, Diddy, Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans, Nas, Lil' Kim, Black Rob, Kid Capri, and SWV.
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The album included Juicy J's solo, "Slob On My Knob", and went on to be certified Gold by the RIAA. CrazyNDaLazDayz peaked at no. 18 on the Billboard Top 200 music chart. Later that year group member Koopsta Knicca’s debut album, Da Devil's Playground: Underground Solo, was released independently, though like all the Hypnotize Minds albums, was still produced by DJ Paul and Juicy J. In 2000, the group soared to new heights in the crunk music genre, carried by their most 2nd successful LP, When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1.
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These LPs represented their solo studio LP debuts and the last piece of some of their older sound, effectively giving way to full on Crunk. In 2003, the latest incarnation of Three 6 Mafia, in DJ Paul, Juicy J, Lord Infamous, and Crunchy Black, released their album Da Unbreakables. Spawning hit singles such as "Ridin' Spinners" and "Testin' My Gangsta", the album was a success, with the RIAA certifying it Gold by the RIAA. In 2004, Three 6 Mafia began to mobilize for what would become their domination over hip-hop.
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"Taurus Here" is the debut single by Atlanta-based Crunk&B;-girl group Taurus. It was written by producer D. Smitty alongside Taurus member Domanica "Doma" Raye, and served as the lead single for Taurus's unreleased self-titled debut album. The song is also noted for its heavy sampling of Salt-n-Pepa's 1987 hit single, "Push It", which served as a tribute to the rap group. In the week of July 2, 2005, the song debuted on Billboard's Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart as a Hot Shot at number 70.
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Jonathan Smith (born January 17, 1971), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, songwriter, DJ, and record producer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the lead frontman of the multi-platinum selling rap group, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz and was instrumental in the emergence of the hip/hop subgenre crunk. He is credited with bringing the genre into mainstream success, producing Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 singles "Get Low," "Goodies," "Cyclone," "Freek-a-Leek," and "Yeah!". "Yeah!" won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance.
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On June 23, 2009, Hollywood Undead released Swan Songs B-Sides through iTunes. The band released a CD/DVD set entitled Desperate Measures on November 10, 2009. The set includes a CD of previously unreleased six new songs, three of which are cover songs, as well a previously unreleased remix of "Everywhere I Go", and six live recordings of songs from Swan Songs, and a DVD of a full live performance by the band. In December 2009, the band won Best Crunk/Rock Rap Artist at the Rock on Request Awards.
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When starting to make music in his teenage years, Dizzee Rascal "learned to rap fast" over drum and bass tracks with 170-180 bpm, in contrast to the slower tempos of UK Garage. He also recalls being influenced by crunk (Three 6 Mafia, Lil Jon), grunge music, Black Sabbath and by Timbaland's work around that time. Rascal once told author Ben Thompson in an interview with The Observer magazine that "everything I do is for the music – I want to master it like Bruce Lee mastered martial arts".Thompson, Ben.
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Crunk Juice is the fifth and final studio album by American hip hop group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz. It was released on November 16, 2004, under BME Recordings and TVT Records. The production was primarily handled by Lil Jon himself, who also collaborated in the executive production, alongside Bryan Leach, Rob McDowell, Emperor Searcy, Vince Phillips, The Neptunes and Rick Rubin. The album contains numerous collaborations from rappers and singers, like R. Kelly, Ludacris, Ice Cube, Usher, Bun B from UGK, Jadakiss, Nas, T.I., the Ying Yang Twins and Pharrell among others.
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"Buttons" is a song by American girl group the Pussycat Dolls from their debut studio album PCD (2005). It was written by Sean Garrett, Jamal Jones, Jason Perry and Nicole Scherzinger and produced by the former two alongside Ron Fair, Tal Herzberg and Young Smoke. It was remixed with additional vocals from American rapper Snoop Dogg and was released as a digital download on April 11, 2006 as the album's fourth single. "Buttons" contains elements of crunk and Middle Eastern music, while the song's lyrics speaks of a woman's desire to be undressed.
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This album does not include one of the group's former frontman, Cee Lo Green, because he broke away to pursue his solo career. That left Khujo, T-Mo, and Big Gipp to hold up the album. Released in 2004 under Koch Records, after the failed World Party crunk experiment, the condensed Goodie Mob returns more to its socially conscious form of its first two releases, Soul Food and Still Standing. The song "Play Your Flutes", featuring Sleepy Brown and Kurupt and produced by J. Wells, was released as the only single off the album.
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In the Spring of 2007, they were support on Anti-Flag's headlining tour alongside Alexisonfire and Big D and the Kids Table. Set Your Goals released an acoustic version of their track "Echoes" for the Punk Goes Acoustic 2 compilation on Fearless Records in 2007. They also covered Lil Jon's "Put Yo Hood Up" for the Fearless Records compilation Punk Goes Crunk, released in April 2008. In the Spring of 2008 they played on the Bamboozle Roadshow with Saves the Day, Armor for Sleep, Valencia and Metro Station.
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"Leavin'" was written and produced by Christopher "Tricky" Stewart and The-Dream, while James Button and Corron Ty Cole co-wrote the track and Kuk Harrell produced McCartney's vocals. The song is considered a departure from McCartney's old style of teen pop, with a more urban-influenced sound. "Leavin'" is a crunk song, with electro production . Written in the key of A major, it has a tempo of 79.255 beats per minute, with McCartney's vocals spanning from the low-note of E4 to the high-note of C6.
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Drake became a fan of wrestling at an early age, attending WrestleMania VIII and became a fan of Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart, before discovering wrestlers such as Sabu and Cactus Jack, both of whom would become major influences. Drake tried his hand at wrestling joining Crazy Ass Wrestling, a backyard wrestling group run by Diehard Dustin Lee. A few years later, Drake, along with fellow Indianapolis natives Scotty Vortekz, Cliff Crunk, xOMGx, & Diehard joined the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo, training under American Kickboxer, after already debuting for Insanity Pro Wrestling in Indianapolis.
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Grey Skies is the title for the first and only album released by Crooked Lettaz, the Jackson, Mississippi duo composed of Kamikaze and David Banner. The album was released on April 20, 1999, by independent label, Penalty Recordings, with manufacturing and distribution handled by Tommy Boy Music. Grey Skies featured two singles: the 1998 one-track, promotional-only single, "Caught Up In The Game", followed by the 1999 two-track single, "Firewater" (featuring Noreaga)/"Get Crunk" (featuring Pimp C from UGK). The album would peak at #75 on the Billboard's R&B; chart.
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David Banner's production was noted by music reviewers, particularly the ascending organ riff that has been described as 'hypnotic' and 'pure halftime show'. The song is included in the hits collections Totally Hits 2004, Crunk Hits Volume 1, and Hip Hop Hits Volume 9. T.I. says the song's title is a reference to his habit of wearing rubber bands around his wrist, a habit that dates back to when he was a drug dealer. Publicity efforts for the single were derailed by T.I.'s arrest in August 2003.
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It is suggested that snap music appeared around 2000 in a crime-infested neighborhood of Bankhead, Atlanta, Georgia. Bankhead was a place where the difference between poor and rich was striking, and, as it has been described, "a lighter sound" of snap was born "in the midst of all the aggression." Very soon after its creation, snap music took on another type of music of Atlanta - crunk. In 2003, Dem Franchize Boys, who had already produced some snap hits for local clubs by the time, got signed to Universal Music Group.
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In 2006, Vibe magazine also mentioned the subgenre of snap, "snap&B;" in connection to the Cherish album Unappreciated. Vibe stated a concern whether snap&B; could take on crunk&B;, which was too popular at the time. Vibe also pointed to one characteristic trait of snap&B;, saying that, unlike slow jams which may feature snapping, a track should be "pop" as well to be called "snap&B;".Vibe Oct 2006, p. 144 Snap continued to maintain a strong presence on the mainstream Billboard charts in 2007.
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The song has a minimalistic dance beat, with a "funky, retro 70s style R&B; guitar" as the backdrop. Lauren Carter of the Boston Herald said that the song is influenced by Timberlake's disco-funk work on FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006), stating that "it sounds like a reworked version of his bass-heavy dance number "Sexy Ladies." Carter commented that Timberlake was "ushering Ciara away from her typically crunk-laced stylings in favor of JT’s electro-slide." Ann Powers of The Los Angeles Times said that the song was "Madonna-esque.
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Sneeke Muthafukaz is the only album by the hip hop group known as Hoodratz. It was released on August 24, 1993, on Epic Street/SME Records and featured production from Hoodratz, DJ Irv, David Kennedy, Carlton Batts, and Bryan Leach. It is not the same crew that released an album during 2001 as the Hoodratz, which was a crunk group affiliated with the Ying Yang Twins. The album was moderately successful, peaking at #79 on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums and #27 on the Top Heatseekers.
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David Jeffries praised the choice of singles included from the 2004 to 2008 period of Pitbull's career, pick out "the spicy crunk anthem "The Anthem," the hypnotic reggaeton floor filler "Culo," and the raw, pounding "Bojangles," all of them sounding flashy, big, and like the start of a penthouse pool party where every beer has a lime on top." He also said that the choice of album tracks to complete the compilation were strong and that hardcore fans would appreciate the three bonus tracks, previously unreleased or from mixtapes.
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"Still Fly" is the first single from the 2002 album Hood Rich by American hip hop group Big Tymers. It reached number 3 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart, number 4 on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was covered by metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada in 2008 for the compilation album Punk Goes Crunk. The song was also sampled by Canadian rapper, Drake, who later would sign to Cash Money Records under Lil Wayne's Young Money imprint.
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A Person of Interest is the third studio album by American hip hop artist DJ Paul, released on October 22, 2012. Paul states that the album, which is a mix of gangsta rap and crunk, is aimed at the core Three 6 Mafia fans. Unlike his previous albums, A Person of Interest also incorporates influences from dubstep and electronic dance music.Three 6 Mafia's DJ Paul Reveals Surprising Sounds on 'A Person of Interest' Album The Boom Box Featured artists are long- time collaborators Lil Wyte, Project Pat and Gucci Mane as well as upcoming artist Locodunit.
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Those who are considered to have followed in her footsteps have been referred to as "Janet- come-lately's."While her vocal skills are at least as decent as Britney Spears and the other Janet-come-latelys, it's Jackson's skills as an entertainer—and commanding stage presence—that make her so deserving of the spotlight. Most disappointing was crunk princess Ciara. The Janet-come-lately and her octet of dance-floor acrobats moved with ferocious elegance to tracks like 'Goodies,' but the singer had glaring microphone problems when she spoke—tediously, about the 'importance' of her upcoming sophomore album.
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The song was written with Spanglish lyrics combining crunk hip hop with bachata. David Jefferies, while reviewing the parent album, called the song "an incredibly smooth, lush, and glittery ballad" while listing the song as a selected "Allmusic Pick". According to Billboard, the original version of the song is a "straightforward bachata song" while the remix, which is included on this release, with R.K.M & Ken-Y, known then as Rakim & Ken-Y provides "urban street cred". The remix also features a verse by R.K.M where he raps to a rhythm of bachata infused with reggaetón, or bachaton.
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"Ghetto" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Rowland, featuring vocals by rapper Snoop Dogg. It was written by Durrell "Tank" Babbs, Calvin Broadus, Lonny Bereal and Rowland, and produced by the former for Rowland's second solo album Ms. Kelly (2007). A mid-paced R&B; ballad which was originally recorded for her shelved My Story album, "Ghetto" is influenced by the Crunk&B; subgrene. Its instrumentation consists essentially of synthesizers and a drum machine rhythm and lyrically, finds Rowland, as the protagonist, singing sensually in her whistle register about becoming attracted to dangerous men.
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For her debut album a.k.a Cassandra, Filipina singer and actress KC Concepcion covered the song in English, while singer Miss Ganda recorded a version in Filipino entitled "Payong" (which means umbrella in Filipino). Singer and actress Mandy Moore sang an acoustic version of the song in 2007 and its video on YouTube has more than 6.6 million views by January 2019. Pop-punk outfit All Time Low covered the song for the Fearless Records compilation album Punk Goes Crunk, and Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers produced their own version of "Umbrella", which was originally recorded for the album NME Awards 2008.
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Taurus was a female Crunk&B; trio-consisting of Doma, Notation & Jazz-that became slightly known for their heavily Salt-N-Pepa-influenced debut single "Taurus Here" in 2005. In January 2006, the trio made their first public television appearances on the now-defunct musical series, Showtime at the Apollo and Soul Train, to perform their single, "Taurus Here". In 2007, the group was requested by the New Jersey Nets to sing the National Anthem. That same year, the group released another single titled, "Get Out My Bed", which featured production by Mr. Collipark and guest rap verses from rapper, Hurricane Chris.
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"I Love U" is a song which runs for a duration of three minutes and 28 seconds. It is set in the simple time signature of 4/4, with a tempo of 105 beats per minute. The song starts with a spoken introduction where Tequila says "I think I love you, but if you ever hurt me I'll fucking kill you," and then transitions into a crunk beat which is built around a repetitive electric guitar riff and utilizes strong elements of hip hop music such as 808 bass, claps and hi-hats. Lyrically, the song is about a dominant female.
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Ciara is known for her often "breathy soprano" vocals. With the release of her debut single "Goodies", Ciara was referred to as the Princess of Crunk&B.; Allison Stewart of The Washington Post commented that she has a "reedy, agile voice, capable of conveying the only three emotions (sexy, sassy, sad) an R&B; singer needs. Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times said that she "has been the most synthetic of the R&B; divas over the past decade, an electro-leaning vocalist whose instrumental palate has heavily favored stark 808 beats, sassy and seductive vocal lines.
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The success of LaFace and SoSo Def led to Atlanta as an established scene for record labels such as LaFace parent company Arista Records to set up satellite offices. Besides Crunk, at the start of the 2000s, independent southern hip hop raised some eyebrows with Cunninlynguists. A group from Atlanta, Georgia and Lexington, Kentucky, though did not achieve as much commercial success as other southern rap acts, found much critical acclaim for their 5 records released between 2001 and 2011. Especially their magnum opus, A Piece of Strange (2006) and its follow up Dirty Acres (2007).
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Hip Hop artist Z-Ro from Houston Texas In the late 1980s, the Geto Boys were Houston's first rap group to gain mainstream popularity. In the early 1990s, Texas rap groups such as PKO and UGK also gained popularity. Before the early 1990s, most Southern hip hop was upbeat and fast, like Miami bass and crunk. In Texas the music was generally slower. In the early 1990s DJ Screw created "chopped and screwed" music. Although people associated with Screw have indicated any time between 1987 and 1991, Screw said he started slowing music down in 1990.
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Wonky (also known as purple sound, aquacrunk, or lazer hip hop) is a subgenre of electronic music known primarily for its off-kilter or “unstable” beats, as well as its eclectic blend of genres including hip hop, electro-funk, chiptune, jazz fusion, glitch, and crunk. It initially emerged in 2008 from the UK's dubstep and grime scenes, exchanging their austere sound for a typically colorful or exuberant style featuring garish synthesizer tones, melodies, and effects. Other influences included American hip hop producers J Dilla and Madlib. Artists associated with the style include Rustie, Joker, Hudson Mohawke, Zomby, and Flying Lotus.
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"All Hands on Deck" is a crunk&B; song which contains elements of West Coast hip hop, grime and late 1990s-early 2000s R&B.; It comprises a thick bassline, "club-friendly" beat, thudding synthesizers and a pan flute breakdown. Noted to be a shift from more sweet and coy-sounding tracks on Aquarius, Tinashe solicits a snarling technique in her vocal delivery, together with a more upbeat attitude and in contrast with Azalea's braggadocio. On the promotional remix single, Azalea's rapped verse occurs halfway through the song's duration, at its bridge, with the rapper announcing herself as "Iggs".
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The genre maintains widespread popularity in New Orleans (the "Bounce capital of the world"), and the southern United States and has a more limited following outside the Deep South. New Orleans' music has a long tradition of gay and cross-dressing performers as truly a part of musical culture, giving bounce music a significant degree of overlap with LGBT hip hop. Like crunk, Miami bass, Baltimore club and Juke music, bounce is recently a highly regional form of urban dance music. Nevertheless, bounce has influenced a variety of other rap subgenres and even emerged in the mainstream.
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In the Zone is the fourth studio album by American singer Britney Spears, released on November 12, 2003 through Jive Records. Its eclectic music incorporates pop, dance, hip hop, crunk, house, electropop, bhaṅgṛā and R&B; styles with instrumentation from techno beats, guitars, drums, synthesizers, strings and Middle Eastern musical instruments. Its themes range from love, dancing and in the case of songs such as "Touch of My Hand", sex and masturbation. Contributions to the album's production came from a wide range of producers, including Bloodshy & Avant, R. Kelly, Trixster, Moby, Guy Sigsworth and The Matrix.
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Jay-Z contributed vocals to "Best Thing" An R&B; album, Josh Eells of Blender summed up much of the production of Here I Stand as "cocktail-lounge crunk, full of splashy cymbals, jazzy electric guitar and tinkly pianos". Many of its themes were inspired by Foster and Raymond V, resulting in a great number of ballads. Here I Stand opens with an "Intro" (titled "Forever Young" on some copies), while the lead single "Love in This Club" follows, on which Young Jeezy appears. The mid-tempo song features a shuddering synth beat and speaks of a lusting desire in a nightclub.
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"Leavin'" received generally favorable reviews from music critics. Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song 4 out of 5 stars, writing that 'Leavin' "is the musical equivalent of McCartney's first tuft of chest hair, a hard-edged crunk gem that wouldn't sound out of place on an Usher or Chris Brown album. Combining smooth, radio-friendly choruses with trendy electro production from Tricky and The Dream, it makes McCartney sound fresh and a little bit sexy without scaring off the milk 'n' cookies brigade." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic picked the song as a standout track on Departure.
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Since then the Punk Goes... series has expanded. It has included seven Punk Goes Pop releases, two Punk Goes Acoustic releases, Punk Goes 80's and 90's, Punk Goes Crunk, Punk Goes Classic Rock, and Punk Goes X which features cover songs that were featured at the 2011 Winter X Games. Punk Goes Pop 5 was released on November 6, 2012. On January 1, 2014, Fearless Records released a video on their page on YouTube announcing bands that will be releasing albums in 2014 and also announced Fearless Records' compilation of Punk Goes 90's 2.
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In April 2008 a compilation from the Punk Goes... series, called Punk Goes Crunk, was released, and features New Found Glory covering "Tennessee", originally by Arrested Development. New Found Glory had previously released another cover song, "Heaven", on Punk Goes Metal. During "Not Without a Fight" tour, a split EP with Shai Hulud titled Not Without a Heart Once Nourished by Sticks and Stones Within Blood Ill- Tempered Misanthropy Pure Gold Can Stay was exclusively released. There were two colors limited to a total of only 500 copies and only for sale from either Shai Hulud or New Found Glory at these shows.
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Lyrically, the song is a carpe-diem anthem about being "super hyped up, super extra out on whatever emotion that it is." "All Hands on Deck" is a crunk&B; song. It comprises a thick bassline and a pan flute breakdown. Noted to be a shift from more sweet and coy-sounding tracks on Aquarius, Tinashe solicits a snarling technique in her vocal delivery, The song's lyrical content was noted to combine a dance instructional with the subject of caustic post-break-up stunting, namely in the lyric, "Kiss the old me goodbye / She's dead and gone".
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"Soldier" is a mid-tempo Southern hip hop song; Alex MacPherson of Stylus Magazine further found elements of Crunk&B; music while Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times noted electropop elements in its composition. Discussing the song musically, Kitty Empire from The Observer classified it as a "ghetto anthem-in-waiting that echoes the Southern bent of much contemporary hip hop". According to the sheet music published on the website Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, "Soldier" was composed using common time in the key of C minor with a pulsing hip hop tempo of 75 beats per minute.
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Tracks commonly consist of an 808 bass drum, hi-hat, bass, snapping, a main groove and a vocal track. Many snap songs may also incorporate whistling. Hit snap songs include "Do It to It" by Cherish, "Lean wit It, Rock wit It" by Dem Franchize Boys, "Snap Yo Fingers" by Lil Jon, "Laffy Taffy" by D4L, "It's Goin' Down" by Yung Joc and "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" by Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, and voted one of "The 15 Best Snap Music Songs of All-Time" is "Look at Her" by One Chance. Crunk has been called the "predecessor of snap".
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Fernandez later told HitQuarters: "At that time his music had a lot of verses and took a long time to get into the hook, and so we took time in getting the songs catchier and less on the rap side." Fernandez introduced Pitbull to Lil Jon, hoping to secure the rapper a small guest intro spot on Lil Jon's upcoming album Kings of Crunk. According to Fernandez, Jon took a liking to Pérez and offered him a track on the album; it is called "Pitbull's Cuban Ride Out." This track helped raise the young rapper's profile.
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Southwest Atlanta, plus territory extending into the adjacent cities of College Park and East Point. The term "SWATS" came into vogue around 1996, initially made popular by Outkast and Goodie Mob.Mickey Hess, Hip Hop in America: East Coast and West Coast From the late 1990s to early 2000s, record producer Lil Jon became a driving force behind the hip hop subgenre known as crunk, known for its upbeat and club oriented hip hop sound. Record producers L.A. Reid and Babyface founded LaFace Records in Atlanta in the late-1980s; the label eventually became the home to multi-platinum selling artists such as Toni Braxton, TLC, Ciara.
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Momentum began building around his distinctive electronica laptop pop/rock, and The Secret Handshake developed a devoted fanbase. Another EP, Summer of '98 (referring to the summer before he started high school), was released in early 2007 through New York's Triple Crown Records, anchored by the vocoder- heavy title track. The full length One Full Year followed, becoming his full length Triple Crown Records debut. In 2008 The Secret Handshake was featured on the Punk Goes Crunk compilation/covers album, where he covered Skee-Lo's rap classic "I Wish". On April 29, 2009, The Secret Handshake released his third studio album, My Name Up in Lights.
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In 2004, Smith, McDowell, Phillips and Searcy launched BME Recordings in a joint venture with Warner Bros. Records and released The King of Crunk & BME Recordings Present: Trillville & Lil Scrappy (2004) with Lil Jon producing most of the album. The album single "Some Cut" has been a favorite of samplers over the years. The label entered the San Francisco Bay Area hyphy music scene with Bay Area rapper E-40, releasing the album, My Ghetto Report Card (2006) with the Lil Jon produced single "Tell Me When To Go." The label released the album Bred 2 Die, Born 2 Live (2006) by Lil Scrappy.
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He is the founder and developer of the crunk style in Bulgaria since 2005, being the first ever to bring it to Europe. Udarnata Grupa (The Striking Team) is the most prominent underground formation in Bulgaria, with no media appearance, a few events in Plovdiv, but with own distinctive style of rapping which is appreciated form those who are familiar with what is to be called "real hip-hop". Upsurt is also a famous hip-hop group, which has gone from underground to mainstream. Their first album, Bozdugan, was released in 1999 and was based on rude and vulgar rhymes as well as original pop references.
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The Boston Phoenix has mentioned criticism of the style, saying that "the idea that a handful of kids would remix lowest- common-denominator screamo with crunk beats, misappropriated gangsterisms, and the extreme garishness of emo fashion was sure to incite hate-filled diatribes". Amy Sciarretto of Noisecreep noted that crunkcore is "oft maligned as the nu metal of this generation." The group Brokencyde in particular has been singled out, with John McDonnell of The Guardian reviewing their music unfavorably. AbsolutePunk founder Jason Tate said that the level of backlash against Brokencyde is more than he has seen for any single act in the ten years.
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The death of the East Coast rapper and former Tupac adversary, The Notorious B.I.G, concluded the west–east feud that had riddled Hip-Hop throughout the 1990s. The West Coast scene slowly started to fade from the mainstream in the early 2000s, as fans drifted more towards the East Coast scene, with new artists such as 50 Cent coming to the fore alongside 1990s veterans such as Nas and the Wu-Tang Clan. In addition, Southern hip hop reached the mainstream in the early 2000s and, arguably, Atlanta's rap scene became the most popular in the country with the rise of crunk in 2003–2004.
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It was groups such as Outkast who were determined to let the world know that the South had something to say. From the late 1990s to early 2000s, producer Lil Jon was a driving force behind the party-oriented style known as crunk. Record producers L.A. Reid and Babyface founded LaFace Records in Atlanta in the late-1980s; the label eventually became the home to multi-platinum selling artists such as Toni Braxton, TLC, Ciara. It is also the home of So So Def Records, a label founded by Jermaine Dupri in the mid-1990s, that signed acts such as Da Brat, Jagged Edge, Xscape and Dem Franchise Boyz.
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The "wet and unstable" sound of wonky is often achieved by producing unquantized beats and mid-range basses using pitch bending, mid-range synths, LFOs on lowpassing and highpassing, phasing, and delaying. Though wonky music is united by the tendency to use unstable mid-range synths, every wonky music scene has its own specific traits in sound. The American wonky "street bass" scene is influenced by broken beat and jazz music and the music itself has an organic feeling, while the Glasgow aquacrunk and Bristol purple sound scenes are influenced by the sound of crunk, chiptune, electro and instrumental grime/dubstep, respectively. Rustie performing in 2012.
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Aquacrunk was pioneered by Glasgow artist Rustie, and features slowed down, low-slung beats influenced by Southern hip-hop with electronic mutterings and morphing basslines. It is influenced as much by early Rephlex and Underground Resistance releases by crunk artists like Lil Jon or Young Buck. Purple sound emerged in Bristol in late 2008 out of the splintering dubstep scene and took inspiration from wonky, which it is sometimes considered a part of. It incorporates synth funk from the 1980s and G-funk production from the ’90s into dubstep, while also introducing many aspects of grime and chiptune (several prominent purple sound artists cite video game music as a large influence).
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Christopher Lee Marshall, better known by his stage name Crizzly, is a DJ, and producer. Currently based in Austin, Texas, he began DJing in 2010, developing a style that incorporates dubstep, crunk, hyphy, drumstep, and trap, among other genres. He has released several singles and three mixtapes, titled Crunkstep (2012), Crunkstep Volume 2: Back 2 Da Streets (2013), and "Crunkstep Volume 3: Booty by Crizzly" (2014). He has also remixed songs such as "James Brown Is Dead" by L.A. Style, "Hard in Da Paint" by Waka Flocka Flame, "Chain Hang Low" by Jibbs, "The Way We Ball" by Lil Flip, and "Put It Down" by Bassnectar and Excision.
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"All Hands on Deck" is a song recorded by American singer Tinashe for her debut studio album, Aquarius (2014). It was written by Tinashe, Bebe Rexha, Stargate, and Cashmere Cat, and produced by the latter two. A crunk&B; song, "All Hands on Deck" contains a prominent pan flute breakdown, a thick bassline and "club-friendly" beat, and has been described as the "sister song" to the album's lead single "2 On" (2014). The track's lyrical content comprises a dance instructional and portrays a scenario of retaining confidence, and rebound dating after a break-up, and contain themes of girl power and self empowerment.
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Atlanta's crunk artists, such as Lil' Jon and the Ying Yang Twins, frequently incorporate bounce chants into their music (such as "Shake It Like A Salt Shaker") and slang (such as "twerk"). Mississippi native David Banner's hit "Like A Pimp" is constructed around a screwed up sample of the "Triggerman" beat. The mixtapes of Three 6 Mafia's DJ Paul also prominently feature traditional bounce sampling. DJ Paul, a native of Memphis, TN, has, in fact, been one of the most prominent purveyors of bounce outside Louisiana, having incorporated its features into tracks produced for La Chat, Gangsta Boo and his own group, Three 6 Mafia.
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Goodies' lead single, the title track, featuring Petey Pablo, was released on June 8, 2004. Conceived as a crunk female counterpart to Usher's "Yeah," the lyrical content goes against the grain, speaking of abstinence, rejecting advances because "the goodies will stay in the jar". Critics hailed it as an "anthem of the summer" and one of the best singles of the year, complementing its dance-feel and beat, and the irony of the "clever" lyrics. The single performed well worldwide, topping the charts in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, and charting in the top ten of other charts, receiving Platinum certification in the United States.
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With "Love Sex Magic," Ciara moved in a more pop direction than her past music. Jordan Sargent of PopMatters noted that while a pop fan might see the singer "back in her mind creatively," a Ciara fan would see the song as "signal[ing] the end of the singer's career as it once was." Sargent stated that the song "sounds nothing like the chrome-plated crunk&b; nor the moonlit balladry that Ciara has staked her name on." Musically, the song is a dance-pop-R&B; number which makes use of electro and funk music, as well as displaying disco and soul influences.
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E-40, a rapper born in Vallejo, California, released eight solo albums prior to My Ghetto Report Card dating back to 1993. In the early 1990s, he was part of the Vallejo rap group The Click. Thanks to regional popularity of his independently released single "Captain Save a Hoe", E-40 got his first major label signing with Jive Records in 1994. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, E-40 began doing guest features on Southern rappers' albums, such as MP da Last Don by Master P, My Homies by Scarface, and Kings of Crunk by Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz.
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"Now That You Got It" was written by Gwen Stefani, Sean Garrett and Swizz Beatz, with production being done by the latter two; Garrett also provided background vocals. The single version of the song features a "loping hip-hop beat and a staccato piano sample" while Stefani "splits wailing time with a chorus of alarms," according to Mark Pytlik of Pitchfork Media. It also presents elements of reggae music and "military snare drums" mixed with crunk militarism. Lyrically, on "Now That You Got It", the singer tells her lover that even though he is with her, he still has to work hard to keep her and give her everything she wants.
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In his Pitchfork Media review, Corban Goble proposes that "what makes The Wack Album work is the wide range of musical styles the group plants themselves in", identifying genres such as dubstep, "golden era" hip hop and contemporary R&B; as prevalent on the album. Similarly, Consequence of Sound writer Michael Madden notes that "the trio ... pick and choose different regional subgenres to mimic", dubbing "Perfect Saturday" an example of G-funk, identifying "Atlanta crunk-king vocals" on "Go Kindergarten", and proposing a Freestyle Fellowship influence on "I Don't Give a Honk". Madden wrote further about "Perfect Saturday", describing it as a mix between Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice" and Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day".
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According to Lewis Corner of Digital Spy both "Euphoria" and "Numb" "include the DJs' glimmering synths while he [Usher] croons in his coolly-controlled falsetto." Jim Farber of The New York Daily News wrote that the songs which were produced by Swedish House Mafia propose a possible crossover point from electronica to R&B; like Usher’s biggest hit "Yeah!" did from crunk to soul. Mark "Exit" Goodchild recorded the song at Silent Sound Studios in Atlanta and Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, while Jorge Velasco, Kory Aaron and Randy Warnken served as recording assistants. It was mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Sound Studios, Universal City, with Chris Galland and Delbert Bowers serving as mixing assistants.
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"Numb" is a dance-pop and electropop song with R&B; elements and contains revolutionary pop influences; it has a length of 3 minutes and 46 seconds. According to Lewis Corner of Digital Spy both "Euphoria" and "Numb" "include the DJs' glimmering synths while he [Usher] croons in his coolly-controlled falsetto." Jim Farber of The New York Daily News wrote that the songs which were produced by Swedish House Mafia propose a possible crossover point from electronica to R&B; like Usher’s biggest hit "Yeah!" did from crunk to soul. Lyrically, it is "an inspirational song about finding one’s destiny, and becoming numb to the negativity and just following your dreams".
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Bands influenced by crunkcore, electropop and Electronic dance music gained popularity among scene kids during the mid to late 2000s, including Cobra Starship and 3OH!3. Blood on the Dance Floor became especially popular, after Jayy Von Monroe joined as lead singer in 2009.Screamo Crunk During the late 2000s, similar subcultures emerged in Asia and Latin America, including the Shamate in China,Chinese scene kids, known as Shamate the Floggers in Argentina, the Coloridos of Brazil, and the Pokémon in Chile. Like their British and American counterparts, these scene kids wore brightly colored clothing, androgynous big hair and eyeliner, and identified with the emo pop, indie rock, rap, and EDM scene.
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Eric R. Danton of The Hartford Courant deemed it as a "crunk-style thumper", while calling it one of the "killer tracks" off the album along with "Radar" and "Hot as Ice". Nick Levine of Digital Spy called it "a booming slice of multi-layered electro R&B;" and said that along with "Radar", "are as avant-garde as pop gets in 2007". A reviewer from Popjustice said "[it] is a really brilliant track", Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said some of the songs of Blackout, "really show off the skills of the producers", exemplifying "Gimme More", "Radar", "Break the Ice", "Heaven on Earth" and "Hot as Ice". He also referred to the song as a "stuttering electro-clip".
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On My Way to Church is Jones' debut album. The album spawned two singles that made the US Billboard Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart: "Certified Gangstas" (featuring Cam'ron, Bezel and The Game), which reached number 80, and "Crunk Muzik" (featuring his Dipset cohorts Cam'ron and Juelz Santana), which reached number 84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US Billboard 200 chart, number three on Billboard's Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Harlem: Diary of a Summer, Jones' second album, reached number five on the Billboard 200 and topped the Top R&B;/Hip- Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies.
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A common song for the New Orleans Saints during and since their Super Bowl Season is "Half-time", or "Stand Up and Get Crunk" by Ying Yang Twins. The song "Big Easy Mafia" is played prior to all New Orleans Saints games while the players are warming up and the fans are pouring into the stadium to hype everyone up. Green Bay Packers play Todd Rundgren's "Bang the Drum All Day" after every Packers touchdown at Lambeau Field. A common choice of music to be played over PA systems as games are being kicked off is "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones and "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses.
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Armando Christian Pérez (born January 15, 1981), known professionally by his stage name Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, brand ambassador, and philanthropist. Pérez began his career in the early 2000s, recording reggaeton, Latin hip hop, and crunk music under a multitude of labels. In 2004, he released his debut album M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records and the executive production of Lil Jon. Pitbull later released his second album El Mariel, in 2006 and his third, The Boatlift, in 2007. His fourth album, Rebelution (2009), included his breakthrough hit single "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)", which peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the UK Singles Chart.
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The track was long-awaited by listeners, but the trio had not been satisfied with both the instrumental version or the version recorded with Harrison's vocals, and eventually settled on vocals by US crunk rapper Lil Jon.Timo Büschleb: "Nach 3 Jahren ist sie endlich da!: Hardwell & W&W; feat. Lil Jon - Live the Night" on "Dance-Charts" Critics wrote that the song was well-produced, but had a dated sound due to its delayed release. Airbeat One 2016 in Germany In 2015, the track "Meet Her at Tomorrowland" was made available on the compilation album The Secret Kingdom of Melodia, which was a cover version of the 2000 track "Meet Her at the Love Parade" by Da Hool and was produced with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike.
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Lyrically the song is about letting loose, being as wild as can be, while she asks ladies to "whip their hair" and "shake haters off". The lyrics have motivational undertones, speaking of self-love and assurance, and referring to letting your hair down as a representation of this in parts like the line, "Keep fighting until I get there, when I'm down and I feel like giving up/I whip my hair back and forth, I whip it, I whip it real good." "Whip My Hair" is a high-tempo R&B;-hip hop piece incorporating dance-pop and crunk, with funk and disco influences. The song is said to be composed in an "eclectic" style, and makes use of heavy synthesizers and drums.
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Crampton's music is notable for drawing from an eclectic and wide variety of influences, including cumbia, and Andean music like huayno and tarqueada, as well as American genres like crunk, metal, ambient, R&B; and minimalism. However, her eclecticism is owed to her understanding and incorporation of Aymara ontology in her music, specifically the concepts of taypi and ch'ixi. As a way of summing up her intent to a style, she has used the tags prog and folk to describe her music. During the time of the making of Elysia's album American Drift, she was living in rural Virginia and being inspired by the expansive local geographical features around the area, described as "wild Southern surroundings", in the area, one of which was the Shenandoah Mountain.
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After the song with Snoop Dogg, Big Sha worked on a project with DMX, and LilAna has songs with Akon and Flo Rida. On March 31, 2010, Big Sha and DJ Swed Lu, "delivered" The King of Crunk Lil Jon to the Bulgarian fans. Meanwhile, Sarafa from RAPTON Records recorded songs with The Outlawz, Ja Rule, and Naughty by Nature. After 2010 the Bulgarian hip hop scene was flooded with new innovative artist including - F.O., Керанов (Keranov), Явката ДЛГ (Qvkata DLG), Dim4ou, Жлъч (Jluch; he is also a member of SoCalledCrew, a rap group from Sofia, consisting of Jluch, Trasher, Евгени (Evgeny), Бате Доуен (Bate Douen or Indianus) and Брят Че (Bryat Che)) and many others, who became popular with uploading their songs online and later making videoclips for the songs.
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Crampton began composing American Drift in 2012 while living in Roanoke and Richmond, Virginia, and was further producing the album in La Paz, Bolivia in 2014. The album was created as part of a project to describe the experience of prehistoric and precolonial history in direct relation to African-American history and Aymara history, as well as Christian faith and ontology. Crampton was inspired by Southern hip hop and crunk, Bolivian and Peruvian prog, metal and psych, trival/tribal- guarachero, black spirituals and early blues, psychedelic folk, and neo- classical music, as well as her brother's avant-garde records, and her grandfather's collection of huayno and cumbia tapes. She also cited late writer José Esteban Muñoz's writings on brownness, which she correlated with the Earth and its geology.
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Eventually the corporation backed down in the face of media opposition and declared that, as the site was non-commercial, it did not violate the trademark. In their May 2004 issue, the US Army publication The Preventive Maintenance Monthly, which instructs soldiers on how to maintain their equipment, featured a spoof comic based on Harry Potter, featuring a character named Topper who resided at Mogmarts School under Professor Rumbledore. The publication received notice from Rowling's lawyers that the comics breached copyright, though the magazine's editor, Ken Crunk, claimed that no violation had taken place, as "[t]he drawings do not look like any of the characters from Harry Potter". After a discussion with Rowling's representatives, the magazine agreed not to use the characters again. In 2004, Rowling and Time Warner launched legal actions against bazee.
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In 2002, she had planned to release her solo project but it was never released due to her pregnancy the same year thus having to put her career on hold. Chyna Whyte has featured on various artists albums such as Too Short's album "You Nasty" (RIAA Certified Gold), Bonecrusher's album "Attenchun", Naught By Nature's album "Iicons", Twisted Black's album "Street Fame", Kane & Abel's album "The Seven Sins", Six Shot's "The Actual Meaning" and a number of mixtape features. She also produced 3 mixtapes out, The Whyte Out, Prelude To War & The Real Deal Holyfield. She also received her Multi Platinum and Gold RIAA plaques for her work on Lil Jon & The East Boyz's album Kings of Crunk and Put Yo Hood Up and also received another Gold plaque from Too Short You Nasty album.
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The compilation features remixes of selected songs from See You on the Other Side made using chopped and screwed technique by DJ Michael "5000" Watts, exclusive mash-up remix entitled "Coming Undone wit It" with Atlanta crunk-rap group, Dem Franchize Boyz along with two fan remixes of hit single "Coming Undone" from the winners of the Acid Planet remix contest, as well as live performances recorded in various locations, two acoustic renditions of singles - "Twisted Transistor", and "Coming Undone", previously unreleased, animated video for the song "Liar", music videos for "Twisted Transistor", and "Coming Undone" and interviews with the band. Korn is the first alternative metal band to have an album chopped and screwed, as this method of remixing is often reserved for Southern Rap style groups, or music stylings.
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This has, unfortunately, resulted in the band losing what made them so enjoyable to listen to back when they first began: fun." The Christian Post gave the album a positive review saying "Family Force 5's new album III is a fantastic journey through the innovative musical minds of crunk rock pioneers that paved the way for artists like LMFAO and 3OH!3" Jesus Freak Hideout gave the album two reviews, one by Roger Gelwicks, who gave the album a mixed review, saying, "As mentioned, some parts of III are better than the whole and are worth the attention of listeners, and one would be wise to solely invest in these aspects. However, as an entire product, III is far more a disappointment than a joy in the end.
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Accessed June 6th, 2009. The second video single Tell Me What You Got is a song aimed at Suge Knight, who went bankrupt and was forced to sell Death Row Records to new owners and is now no longer a force in the record industry. The song tells the Death Row story from Daz's perspective and how he made it through the transition from a crumbling major record label to a successful independent artist. Accessed June 6th, 2009. The latest single Meet Me @ Tha Strip Club holds true to the topic of materialism and features a brand new sound similar to Daz's Gangsta Crunk album with much more electronic elements. The video is a distorted playback of Daz throwing money at dancing women in a strip club. Accessed June 6th, 2009.
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Originally from College Park, Maryland, Nada began his music career in DC-area hardcore bands including De Nada, Super Chinchilla Rescue Mission, Medic, and Bison. He started as a radio DJ while going to college at the University of Maryland for 88.1 WMUC which led to his interest in production and being a DJ. In the early 2000s, Nada met Jesse Tittsworth through a mutual friend and was invited to spin at his party, Crunk, in Washington D.C. He went on to host TaxLo in Baltimore. In 2007 Tittsworth introduced Nada to Matt Nordstrom with whom he formed the DJ and production duo Nadastrom which was the forefront of his career for a decade. Nada's sets and productions notably include electro, house, Baltimore club, moombahton, punk, hip-hop, and Latin and folkloric elements and influences.
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Michael Allen Austin (born August 30, 1965) is an American illustrator, best known for his work in children’s books. Among the titles he has illustrated are Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg, written by Lori Mortensen; The Horned Toad Prince, written by Jackie Mims Hopkins; and Railroad John and the Red Rock Run, written by Tony Crunk. His illustrations have also appeared in magazines, such as Highlights for Children, Spider and Cricket, as well as galleries and museums throughout the United States. The older of two sons, Austin grew up in Florida, drawing favorite characters from The Addams Family, Scooby Doo and Disney films. Early on in college, Austin trained to be a Medical Technologist, but later found he couldn’t resist the call of art and changed his major.
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It's sensual, it's sexual. I'm probably writing about that subconsciously because I don't have that right now." Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine described the record's sound as "bold mix of hip-hop and dance music", while Amy Schriefer of NPR stated the album "mix[es] dance, house, crunk, Diwali beats and Neptunes-style hip hop". Tom Bishop of BBC News stated that the record combines bhaṅgṛā, R&B; and hip hop. Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian deemed In the Zone "a happy collision of house, dreamy electro-pop and Britney’s lyrical preoccupations [...] which have her perched on the cusp between teen poppet and sexually confident woman." According to William Shaw of Blender, the main theme of In the Zone is "Spears’s awakening to her sexuality as a single woman.
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Their song "Halftime (Stand Up and Get Crunk)" is now a standard in many NFL football stadiums, and is considered to be the unofficial anthem of the New Orleans Saints during their Super Bowl victory season, even though it has been a staple at Saints games since 2006. This song was performed live during the victory parade. The song has also been used in NFL Street 2 and Madden NFL 11 as well as the Opening Tip at home games for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs throughout the majority of the 2000s. On November 3, 2009, Ying Yang Twins released their greatest hits album via The Orchard and BOOTY Records. The album includes top ten Billboard hits "What's Happinin", "Shake", "Salt Shaker", and “Wait (The Whisper Song)” plus three new tracks.
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Lunice and Hudson Mohawke first met each other in 2008, when the former asked the latter to perform at a show for his Turbo Crunk crew. After a small number of years of the two focusing on their respective solo careers, Lunice decided he should produce much simpler music instead of being "all over the place, trying to push how weird I could get, but the more I continued, the more I wanted to compress and refine my style to a point of, like, 'What if I just made a song out of one snare?' It's natural: After you've been experimenting, you calm down". After hearing Mohawke's remix of Gucci Mane's "Party Animal", in which Mohawke had started doing "really simple, huge, stabbing productions", Lunice met him to show him new material he had been working on, and the two formed TNGHT.
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A.P. Music] feels like the culmination of his unusual career." Pitchfork's Ian Cohen designated it "Best New Music" and noted that "even if R.A.P. Music doesn't break enough rules or have enough of a platform to reach the levels of Fear of a Black Planet or Straight Outta Compton or Death Certificate . . . it does come off as the kind of powerful mid-career album those acts should've been able to make as hip-hop's elder spokesmen". Christopher Weingarten of Spin wrote: "A child of the '80s and a student of the Internet, Killer Mike is as exciting and wildly unclassifiable as hip-hop gets: New York noise and country shit, nods to when rap was punk and crunk was pop, Ice Cube before he needed hooks, David Banner before he needed to whisper, and Willie D before he needed anybody.
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Ann Powers of Blender called "Do Somethin'" "a decent bit of crunk where she raps in a cutesy-poo drawl that suggests she could have nabbed the Dukes of Hazzard sexpot role from Jessica Simpson". Spence D. of IGN considered the song "interesting for its many interpretations, no less". Nicholas Hautman, from Us Weekly, said that "nobody does attitude like Britney, and this badass electronic jam is a prime example". Nayer Nissim, from Pink News, called it "a solid enough slab of dance pop, though it lacks that little bit of something special that distinguishes her very best singles". The staff from Entertainment Weekly placed it at number 33 on their ranking of Spears's songs; "when fans talk about whether or not Britney sounds like she’s having any fun on her albums, 'Do Somethin' should be the standard by which they measure".
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The station began targeting the Memphis area in the late 1980s with an All-Blues format. In 1996 it flipped to a Mainstream Urban direction, but it wouldn't be until 1997 when it shifted to a Rhythmic Contemporary Hits direction and adopted the KXHT calls and the "HOT 107.1" moniker. Today the station focuses mostly on Hip-Hop product (they phased out most of the vocal- driven R&B; hits, especially the slow songs), complete with non-stop mixes and capitalizing on the Southern Rap genre, especially the Crunk tracks. In August 2006, Nielsen BDS had moved KXHT from the Rhythmic Airplay panel to the Urban Contemporary Airplay panel, but by May 2007 it placed the station back on the Rhythmic panel, as their direction and playlists reflected what was currently being played on the BDS-monitored Rhythmic chart rather than Urban.
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Memphis is the home of founders and pioneers of various American music genres, including Memphis soul, Memphis blues, gospel, rock n' roll, Memphis rap, Buck, crunk, and "sharecropper" country music (in contrast to the "rhinestone" country sound of Nashville). Many musicians, including Aretha Franklin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Shawn Lane, Al Green, Rance Allen, Percy Sledge, Solomon Burke, William Bell, Sam & Dave and B.B. King, got their start in Memphis in the 1950s and 1960s. Beale Street is a national historical landmark, and shows the impact Memphis has had on American blues, particularly after World War II as electric guitars took precedence. Sam Phillips' Sun Studio, the most seminal recording studio in American popular music, still stands, and is open for tours.
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The discography of Jim Jones, an American hip hop recording artist, consists of seven studio albums (including one collaborative album), two compilation albums, two extended plays (EPs), 17 mixtapes and 27 singles (including 10 as a featured artist). Jones is perhaps best known for being a member of East Coast hip hop group The Diplomats (also known as Dipset), with whom he recorded several mixtapes with before releasing their debut album Diplomatic Immunity, in 2003. In August 2004, Jones released his solo debut album On My Way to Church, under Diplomat Records and E1 Music (formerly Koch Records). The album was preceded by the release of the singles "Certified Gangstas" and "Crunk Muzik", the latter of which features his Dipset-cohorts Juelz Santana and Cam'ron, and also supported the release of Dipset's second album Diplomatic Immunity 2 (2004).
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In an interview on the music television show 106 & Park, while promoting his untitled 2008 album, Nas said that he chose "Hip Hop Is Dead" as the title of the album in order to engender excitement and a reaction among hip hop artists. He went on to say that it worked, due to reactions from artists like Lil Wayne and Kanye West (whether West was actually reacting to the title of the album or merely promoting the album is unclear, given that he produced on two of the album's tracks). The title had a major impact in the hip hop world, especially for Southern hip hop, whose artists were blamed at the time for cheapening the quality of hip-hop with crunk and snap music. Southern rapper Young Jeezy had made statements against the title of Nas' album, and also furthered his comments by questioning Nas' street credibility.
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Evidence that she is an under-rated balladeer comes in the form of "Keep Dancin' on Me", a shimmering slow jam, and the morning-after existential haze of "I Don't Remember", but a terpsichorean swagger remains at the heart of Ciara's world. Few artists go as hard as she does on her club jams, whether inviting the world to 'kiss my swag' over kinetic freestyle beats on "Pucker Up", combining outraged soprano braggadocio with thunderous crunk baselines on the broiling "High Price" or gliding smoothly through the delectable, sun-kissed "Echo". At her best, her pace is furious, and keeping up is exhilarating." Digital Spy gave it three out of five stars and commented that "Fantasy Ride features much the same cast of producers as countless other R&B; albums from the last couple of years, but these A-list knob-twiddlers rarely try anything risky or inventive here.
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There are also some Bulgarian mainstream hip-hop artists who collaborate with folk-stars (e.g. Ustata). The hip-hop scene in Bulgaria consists of numerous performers, including Spens, XA, Wosh & Yoko, X-Team, FARS (Funatic Adventures of Rhyme Sapiens), E.C.C.C - East Coast Cash Crew, Horata na Izgreva DRS+ (Dope Reach Squad working alongside Nokaut since 2002) and even have a representative of the crunk/dirty south movement, in the face of Jentaro and his group Nad Zakona (also known as Above Da Law Clique or just Above Da Law). He is notoriously known not only for his raw lyrics and gimmicks to turn a pending club crowd into a riot, but also for his rough flows and deliveries, often bordering with screaming. On March 31-st, 2010, he alongside other popular Bulgarian hip-hop artists was a supporting act for Lil Jon at his concert in Zala "Universiada" in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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The LP included the club anthem "Tear Da Club Up". At this point in the group's evolution, DJ Paul and Juicy J began expanding their brand and focused on developing Hypnotize Minds. Along with Three 6 Mafia, they brought along several artists from Prophet in their transition to Hypnotize Minds, creating the "Hypnotize Camp Posse", the successor of the "Prophet Posse". Over the next few years, the new label would put out The Kaze (trio of Project Pat, M.C. Mack and Scan Man)'s Kamakazie: Timez Up, Indo G's, Angel Dust, Gangsta Boo's Enquiring Minds, Project Pat's Ghetty Green, and Hypnotize Camp Posse's self titled album (Three 6 Mafia Presents: Hypnotize Camp Posse). In 1999, Tear Da Club Up Thugz, a subgroup of Three 6 Mafia members in the founding trio of DJ Paul, Juicy J, and Lord Infamous, released CrazyNDaLazDayz, which is recognized as one of if not the first album made entirely in the "crunk" production style.
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Los Angeles, Atlanta and London have been the base for much of EJ's professional music career and the influences can be heard in her music, which she describes when talking about her song 'Bangers and Mash', "…it's an ATL beat that has really English lyrics to it, it's a very crunk/hip hop beat." In contrast EJ's first single, 'Mama I'm Gonna Sing,' was influenced through her experience of gospel music as well as early hip hop and pop experiences, "My Grandmother took me to church every Sunday and her house was always swarming with us grandchildren," EJ says, "I had the mix of church singing and then coming back to her house to see my cousins breakdancing and listening to Michael Jackson and Neneh Cherry." EJ's music has received an impressive reception, where her debut single 'Mama, I'm Gonna Sing' has enjoyed airplay on BBC 1Xtra, Kiss and BBC Radio 1. The single has also been remixed by Jamie Jones, Savage Skulls and Pete Tong.
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Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews felt a little disappointed with the album, finding most of the material filled with either both strong production and tight lyricism or sub-standard beats and deflated delivery, concluding that "Bubba still has that potential and does come with some good tracks, but it's a short album you can finish in under an hour that compared to his prior works sounds and feels vaguely unsatisfying". Michael Endelman of Entertainment Weekly was mixed towards the record, saying that crunk tracks like "Ms. New Booty" dour the experience after tracks like "Ain't Life Grand" exhibit Bubba's true talents as a rapper. Jeff Vrabel of PopMatters felt that the lack of Timbaland and presence of Big Boi as executive producer throughout the album allowed for dull and meandering beats for Bubba to use to deliver uninspired brag raps without any creativity, calling it "one of year's most disappointing belly-flops".
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In 2004, Omnionn made contact with an independent and obscure hip hop group in the department of Chalatenango, El Salvador called "Pescozada", formed at the time by three young men with a passion to make hip hop music in one of the most rural and politically isolated areas of the country. The project intrigued the producer and he began taking the group under his wing, releasing a crunk remix of Pescozada's "Quieres Mierda?" previously released in the album "Diaz Ozkuros en el Barrio" (2002). After several remixes, assessment and market analysis, Omnionn was able to propose focusing more label resources to build what has become the most successful and known hip hop project in Central America. In 2006 he left the United States to personally supervise Pescozada's international marketing and music production from El Salvador and produce other upcoming hip hop projects, amongst them 4 Manifestantes, Real Akademia and Palomacho, and produce several compilations of "Guanaco Hip Hop".
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In 2006, Lil Jon, in an attempt to fulfill his obligations to TVT released the single, "Snap Yo Fingers." The song was produced by Lil Jon and features BME Recording's artist E-40 and Sean P. The song peaked at #7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum on November 22, 2006. After the song was released, Lil Jon vowed to never to record for TVT Records again. In 2008, TVT Records, embroiled in legal battles, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In 2009 Lil Jon was featured on Jay Sean's double platinum single Do You Remember that was featured in the film remake of The Karate Kid. On June 8, 2010, Lil Jon release his first solo album, Crunk Rock, through Universal Republic Records. It featured artists such as LMFAO, Ying Yang Twins, Pitbull, 3OH3, Ice Cube, Waka Flocka Flame, Stephen Marley, Damian Marley and more.VIBE: Lil Jon Goes to the Orchard The album peaked at No. 8 on Billboard R&B;/Hip Hop Albums and reached No.5 on Billboard Rap Albums.
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Since its inception, The Cross Movement has chosen to define itself as the Christian or holy division of hip hop culture as opposed to the hip hop or rap division of Christian culture. Within the genre of rap music, there are various subgenres such as gangsta rap, Conscious rap, old school rap, crunk, and reggaeton, but all of it falls under the rubric of rap and, by extension, hip hop. In choosing to define their music as simply being another subgenre – i.e., the Christian rap subgenre – of hip hop culture, the CM attempts to "keep it real" in order to maintain the validity needed to influence members of hip hop culture who may or may not be Christians. In their 2003 release, Holy Culture, the CM stated their reasoning is based on a passage from the Bible, John 17:15-19 in which Jesus said to God: “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
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There are baldfaced rewrites of the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" ("Give Me Everything") and Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" ("Castle Made of Sand"). But there's something charming about Pitbull's enthusiasm - he sounds most like himself when he's promoting his brand." David Jeffries of Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars writing, "Solid hooks, polished production, cutting-edge tricks, and a star-studded guest list makes this a blockbuster thrill ride, but the reason Planet Pit retains its sense of fun through repeated listens is the man’s cool charisma and cheeky attitude" and concluding, "This is a hip-hop- flavored club effort of Elephunk proportions and another high-water mark for the don of pop-rap’s glitter dome." The New York Times critic Jon Caramanica gave the album a positive review, calling the album the completion of Pitbull's "long transformation from crunk-era curio to dance-rap star", stating: "The music is ambitious and appealing, surrendering any claim to dignity in favor of huge, swelling progressions and stomping tempos.
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David Jeffries of Allmusic wrote: According to the credits, Master P isn't involved in the selection of these tracks, but the compiling was obviously done by some real No Limit soldiers who reach well past the big names: Master P, Snoop Dogg, Silkk the Shocker, C-Murder, and Mystikal. Hearing the forgotten Fiend's excellent, over-the-top "Mr. Whomp Whomp" is evidence that No Limit predicted the crunk craze of 2004-2005, and while ridiculous moments like "Where the Little Souljas At?" from pre-teen gangstas Lil Soldiers or the syrupy "Picture U & Me Are" from Mo B. Dick are embarrassing enough that P wouldn't have picked them, they are fun reminders of what a wacky and scrappy empire No Limit was. There's also some real heat pulled off long-lost compilations and soundtracks, and the big five's output for the label is whittled down to the most necessary tracks, although Snoop's time at the label was short and there's an argument to be made that C-Murder is underrepresented.
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American singer Ciara has released seven studio albums, one extended play, one DVD, one promotional single, 39 singles, including ten as a featured artist, and 28 music videos, including seven as a featured artist. She made her debut in 2004 with her debut album Goodies which debuted at three in the US and charted within the top 40 in several international markets. The album's title track peaked at number-one in the United States for seven weeks and gave the singer the title of "The First Lady of Crunk&B;", while singles "1, 2 Step" and "Oh" reached the top three in the US. All three singles reached the top 10 in many international markets, with "Goodies" topping charts in the UK. Goodies was certified triple-Platinum in the United States, Platinum in Canada, and sold over five million copies worldwide. Ciara also participated in a number of successful collaborations, including US top five hits "Lose Control" with Missy Elliott, and "Like You" with rapper Bow Wow, as well as the US top 10 "So What" with group Field Mob.
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He announced that the album was a mix of gangsta rap and crunk music, with it also incorporating influences from dubstep and electronic dance music. The album featured past collaborators Lil Wyte and Gucci Mane, and also came with a bonus DVD including a self-titled short movie, music videos and behind the scenes footage. On November 26, 2013, DJ Paul released Volume 16: The Original Masters, a remaster of his 1994 mixtape 4 Da Summer of '94, on iTunes. After releasing a series of singles, including the chart topping "Bandz a Make Her Dance" which featured 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne, Juicy J released his third solo studio album Stay Trippy under Taylor Gang Records, Kemosabe Records and Columbia Records on August 27, 2013. Juicy J has since stated that he would still "love to" participate in a Three 6 Mafia album in the future. In 2013, it was announced that five of the six original members of Three 6 Mafia – DJ Paul, Crunchy Black, Koopsta Knicca, Lord Infamous and Gangsta Boo – were reuniting to form a new group, to be known as Da Mafia 6ix, with plans to release an album which was scheduled for a March 2014 release.
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"Everytime tha Beat Drop" is a song by American recording artist Monica from her fifth studio album The Makings of Me (2006). It was written by Johnta Austin, Jermaine Dupri, Robert Hill, Charles Hammond, Deangelo Hunt, James Phillips, and rap group Dem Franchize Boyz, while production was hemled by Dupri and LRoc. Musically, the downbeat uptempo track was greatly influenced by crunk and snap music, incorporating beats of Nelly's 2005 single "Grillz" and containing a vocal sample of Dem Franchize Boyz' 2006 hit single, "Lean wit It, Rock wit It." A lyrical and musical departure from Monica's previous singles, the uptempo record was released as the album's leading single in the United States in July 2006, gaining generally mixed to negative reviews by music critics who called it "untypical" and "avoidable". On the charts, it became Monica's tenth top twenty entry on Billboards Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart, but failed to reach the top forty on the official Hot 100, becoming her least successful lead single since 2002's "All Eyez on Me." "Everytime tha Beat Drop" was performed along with Dem Franchize Boyz on several television, such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Show with David Letterman, MTV's Total Request Live, and BET's 106 & Park.
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