Crunk Juice | 
| Artist: Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
Label: Tvt
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Rating:  210 reviews
Sales Rank: 10527
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 2690
UPC: 016581269026
EAN: 0016581269026
ASIN: B00031TX8G
Release Date: November 16, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Crunk Juice | | • | Get Crunk feat Bo Hagon | | • | What U Gon' Do feat Lil Scrappy | | • | Real Nigga Roll Call feat Ice Cube | | • | Bo Hagon's Phone Call | | • | Da Blow feat Gangsta Boo | | • | Contract feat Trillville, Jazze Pha & Pimpin Ken | | • | E40 Choppin | | • | White Meat feat 8Ball & MJG | | • | Don't Fuck Wit Me (produced by Rick Rubin) | | • | Chris Rock Let's Be Friends | | • | Lovers & Friends feat Usher & Ludacris | | • | One Night Stand feat Oobie | | • | Aww Skeet Skeet feat DJ Flexx | | • | Chris Rock In The Club | | • | In The Club feat R. Kelly & Ludacris | | • | Bitches Aint Shit feat Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg, Suga Free & Oobie | | • | Chris Rock Get Lower | | • | Stick That Thang Out (Skeezer) feat Pharrell Williams & Ying Yang Twins Produced by The Neptunes | | • | Grand Finale feat Nas, T.I., Bun B, Ice Cube |
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Named after the thriving rap subgenre he popularized, Lil' Jon's Crunk Juice makes no claims to be anything but XXX-rated, hip-hop mosh pit music. Three 6 Mafia's crunked-out compositions may predate Lil' Jon's, but Jon's unique production methods continue to dazzle on cuts like "What U Gon' Do," where protege Lil Scrappy's vocals create jarring audio effects. The trademark futuristic blend of Miami bass, Jamaican dub, electronica, and punk--littered with call-and-response chants--is in full force on "Crunk Juice," "Get Crunk," and "Da Blow." More impressively, he's broadened his crunk palette to include a brilliant rocked-out Rick Rubin collaboration, along with more conventional R&B tunes featuring Usher and R. Kelly--he even looks to D.C.-style go-go beats for inspiration on "Aww Skeet Skeet." The vulgar yet hilarious Chris Rock comedy cameos help make this album a winner, even if it's intentionally zany and lyrically vacuous. --Dalton Higgins
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 Lil' Jon Should Go Back To Hosting 'Muppets Tonite' July 26, 2005
Fish Cheeks (In Your Dreams)
32 out of 42 found this review helpful
My little brother bought this CD and I couldn't believe he wasted his money on it. I tried to warn him that "Crunk Juice" was going to be wack, but he didn't want to listen to big sister. So after listening to "Crunk Juice" for a while, he finally agreed that I was right and sold the CD. I have to tell you that when I first heard "Crunk Juice" I laughed so hard that tears were coming from my eyes. It was so stupid that it was funny. But after hearing it again and again, it's still stupid as well as downright annoying and no longer funny. All it is is a bunch of shouting, cuss words, and electronic beats. How many times is Lil' Jon going to shout "YEE-AH!" "WHAT?!" "MOTHERF*CKAS!" and "P*SSY A** N*GGAS/B*TCHES"? Matter of fact, he looks like that pink dreadlocked Muppet named Clifford who was on "Muppets Tonite," looking like a beat up catfish. But, you know, it's a shame that hip-hop has hit an all time low with Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz. Maybe that's a good thing. I was listening to some KRS-One the other night and I thought to myself, "Why can't hip-hop be like this again? Rappers actually rapping about something important?" But, I don't know. When you have immature grown men like Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz making tons of money just acting stupid and angry, you know for a fact that these are definetly the last days. Don't you dare support Lil' Jon and his crappy "crunk" noise!
 GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR November 20, 2004
A. R. Vaughan (Richmond, VA)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
I've seen some negative reviews on the CD and I have to wonder why. When you purchase the CD you should know what you are getting. How many songs have you heard Lil Jon rap on alone...EXACTLY, none, so don't get this expecting to hear Lil Jon spit. He's not Jay-Z, he's not Nas, or Jada. His music is intended to get you CRUNK, hence the TITLE of the CD. I LOVE IT. It's something that has something for everyone. "Lovers and Friends" will be a #1 song in 2005 as soon as they put out the video, trust me on that one. Jon even gives props to GO-GO with "Skeet Skeet" with DJ Flex out of DC. For all the haters and negativity towards this CD all I can say is that don't expect anything than what you've been getting. Lil Jon knows what he's good at and keeps to it. He makes beats, great beats and has his own style and sound. So don't expect him to veer away from that. THIS IS A GREAT CD for people who know what Lil Jon is and is about. I have no complaints.
Kings Of Crunk Volume 2 December 16, 2004
J. Highsmith (Mitchellville, Maryland United States)
14 out of 23 found this review helpful
As one reviewer previously stated, when you're dealing with Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz, you get what you get. When you're listening to their music, don't expect Jay Z, Nas, Common or Talib Kweli type lyrics. They have one goal in mine and that is to keep the place crunk. That's it, no more, no less... Their last CD, "Kings Of Crunk" went virtually unnoticed until they released their collaboration with the Ying Yang Twins, "Get Low". Anyone who didn't know Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz before that track, was clearly introduced to them after "Get Low" was all over the radio waves. My other favorites on the "Kings Of Crunk" CD included "Throw It Up" w/Pastor Troy, "Knockin' Heads Off" w/Styles P and Jadakiss of The LOX and "Diamonds" w/Bun B from UGK and MJG.
Lil Jon & The Eastside Boys even released "Part 2" which included remixes of "Get Low" with Elephant Man & Busta Rhymes and one with Pitbull. "Part 2" also featured "Get Your Weight Up" w/TI & 8Ball and a remix of "Throw It Up" that featured Young Buck of G Unit. Once both of these CDs were released, Lil Jon started to capitalize on the fact that he was known for his music. He would go on to produce his biggest smash to date, "Yeah!" w/Usher & Ludacris, "Damn!" w/Youngbloodz, Petey Pablo's "Freek A Leek", Ciara's "Goodies" and collaborations with 8Ball & MJG, TI, Twista, Trick Daddy and others.
"Crunk Juice" clearly takes advantage of the momentum of Lil Jon's success over the past few years. The first single "What U Gon' Do" features Lil Scrappy, who with Trillville released a CD earlier this year entitled "Lil Jon & BME Presents Trillville & Lil Scrappy". The two biggest hits from that CD were "Neva Eva" w/Trillville & Lil Scrappy and "No Problem" w/Lil Scrappy. "What U Gon' Do" was made to keep the people crunk in the club just as other Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz' songs have done in the past. The next single "Roll Call" features Ice Cube and serves the same purpose that "What U Gon' Do" serves. At the same time, we get a inspired Ice Cube, who has been busy making movies. It appears as if Ice Cube is ready to get back in the studio as he gives us the pre Jheri Curl & pre Hollywood fire on this track. Not only does Ice Cube deliver fire on this track but on Crunk Juice's last song entitled "Grand Finale", he steals the show as well. This song features an all star cast of MCs with Bun B, Jadakiss, TI, Nas & Ice Cube collaborate on the same track. All of the MCs have decent verses but Ice Cube comes in at the end of the track and steals the show. "Lovers & Friends" features Usher & Ludacris and will definitely be the next single as Lil Jon even chimes in at the end of the track with a verse. This song will put this CD at another level just as "Get Low" did for "Kings Of Crunk".
On "Don't F With Me", Rick Rubin who produced Jay Z's "99 Problems", assists Lil Jon in having a national anthem of just plain having a bad day and what to do with all that rage. Many men will be able to relate to what Lil Jon is saying or should I say yelling in this song. This track is definitely different from the majority of the tracks that you would usually hear on typical Lil Jon CDs. "Aww Skeet Skeet" takes things to my part of town, DC as Lil Jon and DJ Flexx make a song with the DC Go Go music scene in mind. You can tell that Lil Jon is attempting to be more versatile with his music. "White Meat" features 8Ball & MJG and is actually a pretty good song until Lil Jon comes in at the end and tries to jump on the mic himself.
This bings me to one of the negatives on this CD as Lil Jon, Big Sam and Lil Bo's talents are clearly not rapping. Lil Jon needs to stick to what he does best which is producing tracks and Big Sam and Lil Bo need to stick to being hype men. Some of the tracks on this CD are not needed as well. "Stick That Thing Out" sounds as if it was just made to have an obligatory track with the Ying Yang Twins. Although the Neptunes produce the track, the beat isn't as good as most songs from them. Although, "In Da Club" which features R Kelly and Ludacris, is a decent song as well, it seemed as it was a forced collaboration. Lil Jon, Usher & Luda have already formed a good team so there is no point trying to add R Kelly to the bunch.
Overall, if you liked "Put Your Hood Up" and "Kings Of Crunk" then you will like "Crunk Juice". This CD is not too much different from the previous two. You just hope that one day that Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz will stick to producing tracks and giving their infamous chants during the song and not actually tring to rap.
James' Top 5
1) Grand Finale w/Bun B, Jadakiss, TI, Nas & Ice Cube
2) Lovers & Friends w/Usher & Ludacris
3) What U Gon' Do w/Lil Scrappy
4) White Meat w/8Ball & MJG
5) Roll Call w/Ice Cube
who's hatin? August 19, 2005
THE MAIN MAN (Central Bookin', NY)
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
Why is it everytime somebody don't like today's bulls*it so-called artist, we hatin? Nobody is hatin'. We just appreciate good music and this isn't good music, this bulls*it isn't worth my money. Good music means, beats with rhythm,subject matter- make sense of what you say. Show some variety. Show you can talk about more than one thing. True rap artist have done this. Nas, Jay-z, 2Pac, KRS, Big Daddy Kane, Doug E. Fresh, Scarface, LL Cool J, Wu tang clan, Ice Cube. These are true artist just name quit a few. Lil john, chingy, nelly, 50, dipset and all these other crunk muthaf***er's fail to this. Their all one trick ponies and they prove it every release. Party jump off's is cool but godd**** every single whole album. I can't believe how so many people are one dimensional. No wonder dead rappers are considered the greatest, cause everbody supposedly tearin' it up now is complete trash. If you have half a brain don't by this s*it. There is nothin' here. This s*it is only good for the club, just barely.
0 star no Talent - What has happened to HIP HOP and Rap????? December 6, 2004
M. Willden (North Salt Lake, UT United States)
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
I remember the days when you have 2 amazing types of music, HIP-HOP which was usually dancy and light, yet thoughtful and intellignet sometimes, or just plain dancy with rapping vocals such as Black Eyed Peas, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and even some of Puff Daddy's fun 80's and 70's samples were fun to dance to.
On the other hand we had Rap or Gangsta whatever. The Beats were usually downplayed by incredible flow, aggresion and energy that was usually political, rebellious, social or intimate. Music Like NWA, Ice T, Ice Cube, WU-Tang and all their variations, and may others. This was aggressive and dark and in your face.
Nowadays all you have is pure LAZY beats and trite cliche' lyrical content that is about being the best, because they can drink, and smoke and do more hoes then you. Even Female Rap has gone down the tube What happened to Queen Latifa and Salt N Peppa. Now all we have is Lil' Kim and other's rappin about how fast and hard they can please a man and call themselves Beotches and Hoes.
Eminem and 50 tried to bring aggression back, but fill their stuff with too much EGO Potty Humor and death without the political agenda. You can't talk politics one song, and fart or puke in the next, you sound like a hypocrite. And 50 has one of the worst rhymes ever with "I am on you like a fat kid on cake." Horrible who cares if you are in jail and you have sex visits in prison with you ex.
Now onto Lil John. First of his lyrical content is horrible and cliche'. Now I have no problems with harsh language, when it is done with a purpose like NWA. But Using language like that to describe how you are gonna beat up guys in a club because they are flirting with your hoes is pointless. It seems as though he is so ignorant that him and his crew have no other words to fill their raps but meaningless four letter words
His delivery is also so choppy and loud and downright annoying that you might as well listen to Mudvayne's nu-metal, you here the same thing. He has no flow infact, I would call it anti-flow it is so choppy.
His beats are so annoying. Everybody says what a great producer he is, but this is not dancey, or aggressive or important at all. I could not dance to this in a club I am sorry. It sounds like he recorded a dentist drill, a semi backing up and a construction site and distorted it to different pitches and speeds which make it sound worse then ever, on top of horribly repetitive generic bass loops.
Overall, Stuff like this has ruined a great style of music. Worst of all it did this just to make rap go commercial. Screw commercial, go buy WU-Tang stuff they are still releasing, as well as common, Mos Def, Talib and all those artists like that for true meaningful hip hop and rap, not this so-called music. This has no purpose other then to to make them money to put more gold on all their "lil" teeth. What happened to Porcelain???
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