Today it's hard to be a successful rapper without a stable of your own adlibs, and Lil Jon helped set the template for that. Immortalized in the Chappelle's Show sketch where Dave Chappelle played Lil Jon talking to IRL Lil Jon his adlibs of "Whaaaaat", "Okaaaaay" and "Yeeeaaah" grew to even outshine the rapper that invented them. crossed over with " Rubberband Man," Ludacris had his biggest his career up this point with " Stand Up" and Outkast released a pair of number-one songs with " Hey Ya" and " The Way You Move." It seemed that every new rapper with a hit song was from Atlanta.Īnd Lil Jon made one hell of a first impression with the video for "Get Low." Featuring stripper poles, gold teeth, pimp cups and overflowing dreads, the video for "Get Low" presented to the world with the character of "Lil Jon," one in lockstep with his rapping style, which was essentially that of a drunk guy yelling at an off-duty cop. New York was getting ready to pack its bags up for a near decade of cultural irrelevancy and the West Coast wasn't exactly lighting up the charts either, allowing room for the third coast of the South-more specifically Atlanta-to flourish. The song opens with the Ying Yang Twins imitating track's bass line, but after the Ying Yang Twins finish fucking around, Lil Jon smashes the track yelling "Let me see you get low/You scared/You Scared/You Scared." He was brash, disrespectful and signaling a new wave of rap music.Ģ003 was a transitional year for mainstream rap. Those tracks set the template for "Get Low," a collaboration between Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz and the Ying Yang Twins, which just so happened to be the track that brought Lil Jon to the forefront of pop culture. In the early 2000s he had some minor hits (" Bia Bia" and " I Don't Give a Fuck"), mainly call-and-response type party songs in the tradition of the 2 Live Crew. Lil Jon had been making music for years before "Get Low" he used to A&R and produce for So So Def Records, which is why his name is all over So So Def Bass All Stars Vol.
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