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While his best friends attended Benjamin E. The foursome quickly became immersed in the skateboarding culture and would later work at Skate Escape, a popular skate and bicycle shop near the city's iconic Piedmont Park. While in middle school, Lil Jon became lifelong friends with Robert McDowell, Dwayne "Emperor" Searcy (future DJ and radio personality for Radio One's WHTA), and Vince Philips (named one of Billboard's Top Music Lawyers in 2020), who would become business partners. His mother described him as a high achiever early on in addition to being independent and a passionate reader. Lil Jon attended Beecher Hills Elementary School and Southwest Middle School, both located within the Atlanta Public School district. Three of his siblings would later follow their parents lead and also serve in the United States military. He is the oldest of five children born to his father, an aerospace engineer with former military service, and his mother, with a medical career within the military. Lil Jon was born Atlanta, Georgia and raised in a middle-class neighborhood located in Southwest Atlanta.
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In 2013, Lil Jon collaborated with France-based producer DJ Snake and released " Turn Down For What" an EDM single that, as of 2021, has gone 6× multi-platinum in the United States. As a five-time Grammy award nominee, Lil Jon won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance with Usher and Ludacris for "Yeah!" Īs a producer, Lil Jon has produced several Billboard Hot 100 hit singles including " Salt Shaker", " Cyclone", " Get Low", " Snap Yo Fingers", " Damn!", " Freek-a-Leek", " Lovers and Friends", " Goodies" and " Yeah!". He participates as one-third of an unofficial trio consisting of Atlanta-based artists Ludacris and Usher who frequently create songs together. Lil Jon frequently collaborates with Miami-based rapper Pitbull, Bay Area-based rappers Too Short and E-40. He was instrumental in the emergence of the hip hop subgenre crunk, and is credited with bringing the genre into mainstream success. Jonathan Henry Smith (born January 17, 1972) better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, DJ, record producer and former frontman of the rap group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz.