Lil Jon
American rapper and record producer
14
APPEARANCES
9
PODCASTS
Nov 6, 2026
Lil JonGUEST
When I finally got the news that he was found, it felt like a part of me had been ripped out of my body.
Lil JonGUEST
You know, initially I was kind of like, ah, cause I don't like to, uh, dwell on the past.
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Lil JonGUEST
that's one thing I push out to people and we talk about in the book is you don't know how much time you got left, period.
Lil JonGUEST
Go on the trip that you've been putting off with them or don't put them off at all.
Lil JonGUEST
You know, like me and my son, I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday one year, like three years ago.
Lil JonGUEST
Well, yeah, it was interesting to go back to what you're talking about is I was just woke up one day and was like, I'm 50 years old.
Lil JonGUEST
And I was like, what makes you happy? And I could not tell myself what made me happy, but doing other stuff for other people.
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Stephanie RamosCORRESPONDENT
One of his first hits, the single, Who You With, helped define Krunk, a hard-hitting, high-energy style of Southern hip-hop.
Lil JonGUEST
So we would always be hanging out, and one night we were in the club, and we just started chanting this chant.
Lil JonGUEST
We were saying, Who you with? Who you with? Who you with? Get Krunk! Who you with? And then I remember...
Stephanie RamosCORRESPONDENT
How did discovering that upend your identity or change you in a way?
Lil JonGUEST
You know? I'm working at So So Def but I, I'm doing the artist thing, but, you know, I'm still trying to...
Lil JonGUEST
I, I think also when I started to do the meditation albums, people would DM me and say, "Hey, your, your meditation albums helped me get through this, or helped me get through grief.
Lil JonGUEST
They were basically like, hey, you've accomplished so much in your life and your career.
Lil JonGUEST
And a lot of people don't know a lot of things or equate a lot of things that you have done with your success.
Lil JonGUEST
So we need to tell your story and let people see all of the stuff you've done and hear and just understand you better, too, because you're more than just.
Daniel RobbinsHOST
When did you realize you weren't just making music, that you were creating this movement?
Lil JonGUEST
So what I started to see in the clubs was the music that we were creating would make people mosh pit, slam, and get wild.
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Daniel RobbinsHOST
And how obviously one of the biggest songs, I imagine, of your career, probably Usher's career almost got sidelined.
Lil JonGUEST
So I came up with that concept, and I went to my boy DJ Cool Callie, AKA, uh, Rodney.
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