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Lil Jon pumped up the energy during Georgia’s roll call at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. The “Yeah!” rap star surprised the Chicago crowd by popping out with the delegation of Georgia to perform his hit “Turn Down for What.” After a call for Georgia to cast its vote, …

Anyone watching last night’s Democratic National Convention surely noticed a new twist: a blue-suited DJ playing songs to accompany each roll call. And with songs ranging from “Born in the U.S.A.,” “Take Me Home, Country Roads” and “Sweet Home Alabama” to “Girl on Fire,” “Despacito,” and “Good Luck, Babe!” DJ …

Pitbull is gearing up for a Party After Dark Tour through North America, which will feature special guest T-Pain on all dates and Lil Jon joining them in select cities. The set is billed to include career-spanning hits along with some surprises. The 26-city jaunt begins on Aug. 21 at …

“Freaknik was the greatest Black gathering in America,” Lil Jon says in the trailer for the upcoming doc, Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told. The film looks at the history of the long-running Atlanta street party known as Freaknik, with commentary from 21 Savage, Killer Mike, Jermaine Dupri, Uncle Luke, …

When it comes to truth in advertising, few albums this year are going to top Lil Jon’s just-released Total Meditation. Not remotely hip hop, the music is instead a soothing sonic bath akin to what one would hear in a massage-therapy room at a spa. As those tracks wash over …

Just a few days before he would make his inevitable appearance on Usher’s Super Bowl LVIII halftime stage, rapper-producer extraordinaire Lil Jon tells me about the self-soothing mantras that kicked his decade-long wellness journey up a notch. “My affirmations in my time of really finding meditation were ‘I am healthy, …

Usher headlined Super Bowl LVIII’s halftime show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday with a career-spanning performance featuring some of the biggest contemporary R&B hits of the past 20-plus years. Usher kicked off the electrifying set with “Caught Up” while a bevy of dancers and others performed gymnastics …

Usher came to the Super Bowl to celebrate nearly 30 years of making love in this club, and that’s exactly what he did — he turned Allegiant Stadium in Vegas into his own personal seduction lair. His Super Bowl halftime show was a splashy tribute to millennial pop glitz, with …

Lil Jon and his lawyers are taking Live Nation to task — and mulling a potential lawsuit — over the concert promoter’s popular Las Vegas festival, Lovers & Friends. The festival, which debuted last year after a pandemic delay, boasts the same name as Lil Jon’s 2004 hit with Ludacris …