Just last year, Duke Deuce‘s Memphis Massacre cut “Yeh” hit a million YouTube views in just about 30 days with the encouragement of Cardi B, who called on her more than 60 million Instagram followers ...

When the words, "the south got something to say" were spoken at the 1995 SourceAwards, much of the rap world had no idea how true that statement would prove to be in the coming years. By 2000, rappers ...

For the first half of the 2000s, crunk music was rap music. The production of Lil Jon — the fight songs of Memphis’ Three 6 Mafia by way of shiny, Atlanta pop-rap — was a hybrid style technically ...

Duke Deuce has been grinding on the streets of Memphis for years. The son of local legend Duke Nitty, Deuce is a walking emblem of Memphis’ history as a beacon of rap music. It wasn’t until 2017, ...

Random Kendra anecdote: Due to the slightly restrictive environment I grew up in, I wasn’t introduced to certain music until I went to college. There, I learned of the type of music called “crunk.” ...

Atlanta has led the way in hip-hop culture for more than two decades. The city has remained prominent because the sounds and styles are never stagnant, and every four or five years artists in the city ...

Artist: Lil Jon & The East Side BoyzTitle: Crunk JuiceRating: 3 1/2 StarsReviewed by: Orisanmi Burton As the official ambassador of crunk to the world, Lil Jon single handedly propelled his underdog ...

From T-town to Atlanta all the way to Savannah to Alabama I be damn a club ain't crunk in this manner." From a Grammys perspective, this is the year of crunk, with Usher earning eight nominations for ...

Lil Jon has opened up about crunk music’s infectious energy and what inspired it. Appearing on the New York Times’ Popcast, the Atlanta rapper revealed that punk music and a love for skateboarding ...

Rapper and music producer Lil Jon says completing his long-awaited new album has taken him longer than he thought, but sticking to his ambitious idea of mixing crunk music with rock has always been ...

Hip-hop and booze are a match made in marketing heaven. Jay-Z made $2.5 million last year endorsing Budweiser and others; Diddy pushes Ciroc Vodka; Kanye West appears in Absolut ads. But Lil Jon went ...

Duke Deuce is back with his latest banger, “FORNEVA,” just weeks after committing to releasing new music every Friday.