Everyone raise a glass of pimp juice for the return of The Crunkfather, Lil Jon!
The video for Jay Sean’s current Top 20 hit “Do You Remember”—which features Jon as well as Sean Paul on vocals—premiered today on Vevo, and the three-and-a-half minute clip plays like an homage to both Lionel Richie’s street-party classic “All Night Long” and Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel.”
“I met Sean at the red carpet for the MTV VMAs and he came up to me and he liked my music,” Jay told Idolator at last week’s KIIS-FM Jingle Ball concert in Los Angeles. “I was like, ‘Listen I’ve got the song for you,’ I sent it off to him, he did the same thing, sent it back—he was in Jamaica, I was in New York—but we did it and I was so, so happy.”
“Do You Remember” is the follow-up to Sean’s breakthrough hit in the States, “Down,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this fall. See the video for “Do You Remember” after the jump! More »
You have to wonder just what machinations result in a mixup like this one. A malfunction at the Celebrity Cell Phone Number Database? An overly-invested-in-pranks worker at said database’s HQ? Either way, the heated nature of this Tweet makes me think that Miley’s little pals are either going to get a lot of lessons in the wonderful world of profanity over the next few weeks, or they’re going to have half-sad, half-absurd conversations like the one after the jump.
Part of me always suspected a Baltimore club track would cross over to the mainstream at some point, but when I heard DJ Class‘ “I’m The Ish” on the urban station here in Tucson yesterday (a station about six or seven months behind most breaking records), I was surprised. When I saw the track had jumped to the 30th-most-played track on urban radio in just two weeks, I was shocked.
Lil Jon’s having a great day! He finally escaped the clutches of TVT Records, although it took TVT’s bankruptcy and purchase by the digital-music distributor The Orchard for this glorious moment to come about. More »
Thanks to ProHipHop for doing the legwork and finding out that Little Jonathan Vineyards is, in fact, a winery belonging to Lil Jon, who’s smartly realized that the energy-drink market has hit its turn-of-the-millennium peak and that it’s time for him to diversify his beverage portfolio a little… More »
A few gossip blogs are claiming that Little Jonathan Winery is actually the brainchild of one Lil Jon, so get out your pimp cups, etc., etc. Now, it’s nothing new for musicians to head into the grape fields in search of new revenue streams (especially given all the problems Jon’s label, TVT, has… More »
Last night, the New York-based label TVT Records fired the bulk of its staff, and it’s expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection later this week. TVT, which started in 1985 as a label devoted to bringing the television themes of yore together on the Television’s Greatest Hits compilations, had a roster of artists that at one time included Nine Inch Nails, and currently includes the Polyphonic Spree, Lil Jon, and the Ying Yang Twins. Trouble has been brewing at the label for a while: In 2005 Lil Jon had a public spat with label president Steve Gottlieb (although the two have since reunited, and TVT was supposed to release his forthcoming album Crunk Rock sometime soon), and a few weeks ago, another member of the label’s roster, Pitbull, told his fans that they should download, and not buy, his recent album The Boatlift because Gottlieb didn’t deserve to profit from his work:
