A biography for Lil Jonhasn’t been written yet.
“The teachers teach the children that are going to take care of us. These are our future leaders, doctors, lawyers. So, they need to have everything in their arsenal to teach these kids.”
“I think people underestimate because I'm the rap guy, I'm a crazy guy, screaming all the time. But that doesn't mean that I'm not intelligent.”
“Sometimes I don't want to have to be the guy that gets the party going.”
“The energy from these records, that's what makes crunk so popular; that's why it's winning, because it makes you move a certain way.”
“Vegas is really rock and roll.”
“Zumba is world-wide, respected and it's about health. It's something that you really didn't expect from me. People have been blown away to find out that Zumba and I have partnered up.”
“I like producing myself, I like other people producing, I just like it all.”
“I'm all about helping children.”
“I love to make people have a good time and I love to make people party.”
“Everybody I see, that's the first thing they think of when they see me: 'WHUUUUUT?' or 'YEEEAAAHHH!' But they don't realize that everybody and their grandmother says that to me.”
“I have a couple different businesses.”
“If you are having a hard week, turn on one of my songs. Some people are here for different things in life. My job is to make you forget about your troubles.”
“Well, 'Crunk Rock' doesn't mean rock. Initially when I started the album, I did collaborate with a bunch of rock musicians and producers. But as I started to have time to free my mind and catch different vibes, it started to mean something different.”
“Ladies like to kiss.”
“Well, you've got to learn how to make fun of yourself - you know what I mean?”
“A lot of stuff that I'm involved in is about branding.”
“Celebrity Apprentice' was something where you don't know what you're going to do the next day. Every two days, somebody goes home, and you don't know if the next day you've got to be the project manager or what's going to happen, so you can't really prepare. You really have to be on top of everything.”
“It's always shocking to people, because sometimes when I go on the road and I DJ, they think I'm just gonna perform, so to see me really DJing and playing their favorite song and really rockin', it's a shock to people, and definitely to DJs.”
“Like when you hear Aretha Franklin sing - it touches your soul. Crunk music, it makes you just wanna lose your mind - just be free and wild out.”
“When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions. That's kind of what happened with me and the Eastside Boyz. They wanted to do different things than I wanted to do, so we separated.”