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Lil Jon is regarded as a progenitor of crunk, a club-oriented hip-hop subgenre. His group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz released the 1996 single "Who U Wit?", which is credited with bringing the word "crunk" into hip-hop currency.
Lil Jon won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance for "Yeah!" by Usher, which also featured Ludacris. It was one of five Grammy nominations he received across his career.
"Turn Down for What", released in 2013 on Columbia Records, has been certified 8 times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The song's music video passed 1 billion views on YouTube in 2020.
Lil Jon served as Executive Vice President of A&R at So So Def Recordings, Jermaine Dupri's Atlanta-based label. His first project there was the compilation So So Def Bass All-Stars, released on the 12th of May, 1996, which sold over 500,000 units and was certified gold by the RIAA.
In partnership with the charity Pencils of Promise, Lil Jon funded two schools in the village of Mafi Atitekpo in Ghana. The Abomayaw D.A. Kindergarten opened in October 2017, and the Mafi Atitekpo DA Primary School broke ground in January 2018, designed to enroll 313 children.
Lil Jon released two guided meditation albums in 2024, both created with Kabir Sehgal. Total Meditation came out on the 16th of February, 2024, and Manifest Abundance: Affirmations of Personal Growth followed on the 10th of May, 2024.