Lil Jon

Jonathan Smith, born in Atlanta in 1971, worked at So So Def before forming Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz in the late nineties. He is the figure most associated with crunk, through Kings of Crunk and Crunk Juice and the hit “Get Low”.

Usher’s “Yeah!”, which he produced, won a Grammy in 2005. “Snap Yo Fingers”, with E-40 and Sean P, led his solo album Crunk Rock into the top ten, and “Turn Down for What” with DJ Snake gave him a second life a decade later.

The DJing is not a sideline. He signed a residency with Surrender at Encore in 2010 and held Wynn residencies across Surrender, Tryst and XS for more than five years, and was named the city’s resident DJ of the year.

So a Lil Jon pool booking is a DJ set with a microphone, not a concert: open-format club records, his own catalogue, and a great deal of shouting.

Written from Wikipedia and Las Vegas Sun.