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Lil Jon looks back on his career in ‘Origins of Hip Hop’
“I am all the time pushing ahead and probably not occupied with every thing I’ve executed in my profession and … the span of it,” he advised CNN in a current interview.
However now the producer and artist behind hits resembling “Get Low,” “Flip Down For What” and “Yeah!” (which gained him, Usher and Ludacris a finest rap/sung efficiency Grammy), is the topic of the most recent episode of A&E’s “Origins of Hip Hop.”
“We go all the way in which again to the place I began in elementary college, the place I began to have a love for music,” Lil Jon mentioned of the docuseries.
Narrated by award profitable rapper Nas, the present options celebrated hip-hop artists as they mirror on the “experiences that molded them.”
Lil Jon mentioned he understands desirous to unpack the style and people behind it due to its affect.
“Hip hop is earning profits. It is one of many top-grossing fields of music,” he mentioned. “Hip-hop tradition has influenced and continues to affect the whole world, proper? It doesn’t matter what style of music folks do, they costume and seem like hip-hop artists and have swag like us.”
Lil Jon mentioned taking part in this system reminded him of what he is executed – and continues to do – within the music trade.
And he is not stopping.
“I simply imagine I have been given this reward and I am supposed to make use of it,” he mentioned. “I am constantly placing out music. It may not all be hip hop, however I am placing out music that’s making folks transfer.”
He is additionally increasing his creativity past music together with his HGTV house renovation present, “Lil Jon Desires to Do What?”
“I all the time needed to transition,” he mentioned. “Most guys need do motion pictures, however I all the time needed to do tv. So transitioning into tv now with my present on HGTV is wonderful.” (HGTV and CNN are each a part of Warner Bros. Discovery.)
“Origins of Hip Hop” airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET.