One Question: What U Gon' Do!?! (Crunk Juice - Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz)

Member Name: XICripZ

Product:	Crunk Juice - Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
Date:	03/06/09 (30 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lots of club bangers

Disadvantages: A few weaker ones

Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz came off the hype of the breakthrough Crunk track "Get Low" on their 2003 album with this, "Crunk Juice", taking its name from an energy drink the Atlanta beat maker Lil' Jon and his rapping partners Big Sam and Lil' Bo endorsed around this time (2004). It was their fourth album together and has them show people how to rave the ATL style.

1. "Crunk Juice" (Intro)

2. "Get Crunk"

To get this thing underway you have are dark track which, when you take into account that Crime Mob's Lil' Jay has had a large part in the creation of the beats in this, goes more towards the foundations of this music style with the Memphis Buck kind of thing coming through here. It is a rough tune and represents what the album is about.

**Four Stars**

3. "What U Gon' Do"

This is a hardcore track from them, and one of the best Crunk tunes ever, in my opinion, it is just what you want to here in a track of its kind with Lil' Jon choosing to do the kind of thing which reminds you of the good old Miami Bass days of the late eighties where he attempts to recreate the atmosphere of a club with chants and sc to get you bouncing with him. Lil' Scrappy raps on this two and gives it a little more lyrical complexity. Then repetition of "What U Gon' Do" and shouting out to each coast.

**Five Stars**

4. "Real N**a Roll Call"

You have him going hard on this one too as you find that, as ever, Lil' Jon takes on the role of the hype man in the music and on top of the heavy 808 bass, he roars to represent all the people who he expects to be listening to this music as he goes from the traps to the suburbs and includes everyone in-between.

**Four Stars**

5. "Bo Hagon's Phone Call" (Lude)

6. "Da Blow"

Former Three 6 Mafia member Gangsta Boo represents the female rappers and Memphis rap in general here she comes in on a hard tune which remind he of the type of thing which you would associate with the work of similar acts from this part of the region. The monstrous flows from Lil' Jon shows that there much more to him than simple one-liners.

**Five Stars**

7. "Contract"

You find that Trillville, Pimpin' Ken and Jazze Pha all choose to jump on top of this one, and based on who you have here, you came probably guess how things are constructed as they don't surpsied you at all with Jazzy Phizzle singing on the hook and having Trillville's rapper's rip through the hard production.

**Three Stars**

8. "E-40 Choppin'" (Lude)

9. "White Meat"

With Memphis' top, legendary rap duo 8Ball & MJG to hand, you find that Lil' Jon switches his typical style of making the beats, and decides that this track requires a Rock twist to it and so to a attention-grabbing guitar, you find that the pair of them use it i away which you would associate with Crunk, due to the violent content.

**Four Stars**

10. "Stop F***in' Wit' Me"

He explores more of his Heavy Rock stuff in this one and so with the most well-known Hip Hop and Rock crossover producer, Rick Rubin shows how to get the best results out of this 'Hood Rock' thing. You here the Old School vibes in the electronic percussion and it takes you back to Rubin's work with LL Cool J, but the authentic Rock is where the quality comes through.

**Five Stars**

11. "Chris Rock Let's Be Friends" (Lude)

12. "Lover's and Friends"

Following the success of the Lil' Jon-produced hit "Yeah!" Usher gets up on more of his beats here with the assistence of Ludacris too. This comination appears to create nothing but the highest quality in music as here they come with an R&B track which is simply too much as Ush' leads and does what he does best with his great vocal ability and just singis it all as only he can.

**Five Stars**

13. "One Night Stand"

This one has him go for something which really seesm out-of-place in the album as he does a proper R&B track with Oobie on the vocals. This is a shift to earlier work between Lil' Jon and her as in the past she has raped to the kind of beat that he would have typically rapped to, but here he clams things down dramatically.

14. "Aww Skeet Skeet"

We have some DC producers behind this one, and so you have a very different kind of production being used in this track, but I would have to say that it works. The Washington Rap scene is heavily-influence by the Go-Go genre, and so you get a lot of this coming through and it makes for a big tune The fact that that this area hasn't changed much since the early nineties, it sounds retro, and this a is always a positive thing.

**Four Stars**

15. "Chris Rock In Da Club" (Lude)

16. "In Da Club"

On this one you have things relaxed significantly as it seems that Lil' Jon has taken influence from one of his guests, R. Kelly, whose style he attempts to recreate with the synth in this one, and so it makes for something which you feel is perfectly matched to the artists who work on it. Luda is found here too, and he comes with some fly rhymes to round it off nicely.

**Four Stars**

17. "B****es Ain't S**t"

Using a title which Dr. Dre used in a track from his debut solo album, this one has Lil' Jon take it out to the West Coast as he gets the best hook maker in the name, Nate Dogg sinign for it, and from he rendition of Alexander O'Neal's "Saturday" you have Lil' Jon and Snoop Dogg getting stuck right into it all.

**Four Stars**

18. "Chris Rock Gets Lower" (Lude)

19. "Stick that Thang Out"

You have Lil' Jon working on some beats from The Neptunes here and cso obviously there is going to be a significant change in the style of the beats in this one and I thought that I would have been annoyed b the fact that Pharrell and Chad Hugo's beat's clean sound. However it appears with the funky percussion which they come with, the contrast between the Crunk is a positive one.

**Four Stars**

20. "Grande Finale"


To end things off you find that Lil' Jon does things in a way to try and bring in the best of the south, and so instead of the raging chants, he chooses to recruit five of the best lyricists from all over and so after Port Arthur's UG member Bun B gets a go, we go to the East Coast to have a little from Jadakiss and from this point we go back down south for some fly flows from T.I. The final two were real surprises though as to end things of course we must go to the West Coast and so ice Cube does his thing, but also he returns to the East coast again and has Nas do his thing.

**Five Stars**

I would have to say that this album was the most consistent album from Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz and so it appears that he has found what he needs to do to make fans happy, and as well as the lots of lively Crunk tunes, you find him experimenting with styles which he knows will get people up on their feet.

Summary: Lil' Jon's fourth album