Crunk Juice is the fifth studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by American recording artists Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, released in November 16, 2004, on TVT

TVT Records

TVT Records was an independent US record label founded by Steve Gottlieb. Over the course of its 25 year history the label released some 25 Gold, Platinum and Multi-platinum releases. Its roster included Nine Inch Nails, Ja Rule, Lil Jon, Underworld, The KLF, Sevendust, Brian Jonestown Massacre and...

/BME

BME Recordings

BME Recordings is an American record label founded by Lil Jon, Rob Mac, Emperor Searcy, and Vince Phillips Warner Bros. Records is the distributor for BME recordings...

. The production was handled by own Lil Jon, who also collaborated in the executive production, alongside Bryan Leach, Rob McDowell, Emperor Searcy, Vince Phillips, and production by Lil Jay of Crime Mob

Crime Mob

Crime Mob was a hip hop/crunk group consisting of six members, M.I.G., Cyco Black, Princess, Lil' Jay, Diamond, and Killa C....

, DJ Flexx, Scotty Beats, The Neptunes

The Neptunes

The Neptunes are a record production duo consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who are credited with contributing the sound for many successful hip hop, R&B and pop artists in the late-1990s and 2000s...

's Pharrell

Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Williams , commonly known simply as Pharrell, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, composer, and fashion designer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo The Neptunes, producing hip hop and R&B music...

 and Hugo

Chad Hugo

Charles Edward Hugo is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as one half of the music production and writing duo The Neptunes and as a member of the funk/rock band N.E.R.D. He is a saxophonist, pianist and guitarist...

, and Rick Rubin. The album contains numerous collaborations from rappers and singers, like Ludacris

Ludacris

Christopher Brian Bridges , better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings...

, Ice Cube

Ice Cube

O'Shea Jackson , better known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he built a successful solo career in music, and also as a writer,...

, Usher

Usher (entertainer)

Usher Terry Raymond IV , who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American singer-songwriter, and actor. He is considered around the world to be the reigning King of R&B. Usher rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100...

, Bun B

Bun B

Bernard Freeman better known by his stage name Bun B, is an American rapper and was one half of the southern hip hop duo UGK . He is also a guest lecturer at Rice University located in Houston, Texas...

 from UGK, Jadakiss

Jadakiss

Jason Phillips , better known as Jadakiss, is an American rapper. He is a member of the group The LOX. Jadakiss is one of the three owners of the imprint known as D-Block. In early 2007, Jadakiss signed to Roc-a-Fella Records / Def Jam Records.-Early life:By the age of 16, Jadakiss was a freestyle...

, Nas

Nas

Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, who performs under the name Nas , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in hip hop and one of the most skilled and influential rappers of all-time...

, T.I.

T.I.

Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. , better known by his stage name T.I., is an American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author. He is also the founder and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....

, the Ying Yang Twins

Ying Yang Twins

The Ying Yang Twins is an Atlanta-based American crunk rap duo consisting of Kaine and D-Roc . The group debuted in 2000 and rose to mainstream popularity in 2003 collaborating with Lil Jon in his single "Get Low"...

 and Pharrell

Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Williams , commonly known simply as Pharrell, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, composer, and fashion designer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo The Neptunes, producing hip hop and R&B music...

 among others. There is a chopped and screwed

Chopped and screwed

Chopped and screwed refers to a technique of remixing hip hop music which developed in the Houston hip hop scene in the 1990s...

 version of the album done by DJ Michael "5000" Watts

Michael Watts

Michael J. Watts is "Class of 1963" Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left. An intensively productive scholar, he works on a variety of themes from African development to contemporary...

. Lil Jon's next solo album, 2010's Crunk Rock

Crunk Rock

Crunk Rock is the solo debut album by American Crunk artist Lil Jon, released on June 8, 2010 by BME and Universal Republic. The symbols at the bottom of the album's cover are Japanese Katakana characters, which read "Kurunku Rokku"....

, did not feature the East Side Boyz.

Album

Confirmed by Disco GS.

• Track 6, contains samples of the remix of "Sippin' & Spinnin' [Remix]", performed by Gangsta Boo
  Gangsta Boo
  Gangsta Boo, also known as Lady Boo was the first female member of the Memphis, Tennessee-based rap group Three 6 Mafia...
  
  , Playa Fly and Bun B
  Bun B
  Bernard Freeman better known by his stage name Bun B, is an American rapper and was one half of the southern hip hop duo UGK . He is also a guest lecturer at Rice University located in Houston, Texas...
  
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• Track 10, contains samples of "Mandatory Suicide" and "Raining Blood", performed by Slayer
  Slayer
  Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...
  
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• Track 12, contains samples of "Lovers and Friends", performed by Michael Sterling
  Michael Sterling
  Professor Michael Sterling FREng began his career as an electrical engineer in 1964 joining AEI as a student apprentice with a scholarship to the University of Sheffield to read electronic and electrical engineering, graduating with a 1st class honours degree and subsequently a PhD in computer...
  
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• Track 17, contains samples of "Tonite", performed by Kleeer
  Kleeer
  Kleeer was an American New York based funk, disco and post-disco band which was formed in 1972 under the name The Jam Band, as a backup group to different disco bands and vocalists...
  
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• Early pressings of this album erroneously credited Fat Joe
  Fat Joe
  Joseph Antonio Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad....
  
   (rather than Jadakiss) as one of the rappers in "The Grand Finale. Coincidentally, both were guests on Ja Rule
  Ja Rule
  Jeffrey Atkins , better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an American rapper, singer, and actor.Born in Hollis, Queens, he began his career in the group Cash Money Click and debuted in 1999 with Venni Vetti Vecci and its single "Holla Holla"...
  
  's song "New York
  New York (Ja Rule song)
  "New York" is a 2004 single by rapper Ja Rule, featuring Fat Joe and Jadakiss, from his album R.U.L.E.. The track was produced by Cool & Dre, and the chorus is based around Boogie Down Productions' 1990 song, "100 Guns" The song peaked at #27 on the US Hot 100 chart, #14 on U.S...
  
  ".

Bonus remix disc

Confirmed by Artist Direct.

DVD

Confirmed by Artist Direct.

Main Performers

• Lil Jon
  Lil Jon
  Jonathan Mortimer Smith , better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, music producer, entrepreneur, and occasional disc jockey who was a member of the group Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. Lil Jon formed the group in 1997, and the group released several albums between then and 2004...
  
  

• The East Side Boyz: Big Sam and Lil' Bo

Featured guest

• Bo Hagon
• Lil Scrappy
  Lil Scrappy
  Darryl Kevin Richardson II , better known by his stage name Lil Scrappy, is an American rapper.Richards was discovered by producer and performer Lil Jon while performing at a bar, when a fight broke out during his set in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia...
  
  
• Ice Cube
  Ice Cube
  O'Shea Jackson , better known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he built a successful solo career in music, and also as a writer,...
  
  
• Gangsta Boo
  Gangsta Boo
  Gangsta Boo, also known as Lady Boo was the first female member of the Memphis, Tennessee-based rap group Three 6 Mafia...
  
  
• Trillville
  Trillville
  Trillville is a rap group from the U.S. city of Atlanta. In 1997, when its members were still in the ninth grade in high school, the group formed with the stated intention to become "Gods of Crunk." Dirty Mouth was leader of the school's snare drum line and was already writing his own rhymes...
  
  
• Jazze Pha
  Jazze Pha
  Phalon Anton Alexander , also known as Jazze Pha , is an American singer, and songwriter.raised in Memphis, TN; son of James Alexander ....
  
  
• Pimpin' Ken,
• 8Ball & MJG
  8Ball & MJG
  8Ball & MJG is an American Rap and Crunk duo from Memphis, Tennessee. The two rappers met at in 1980.They first appeared on the rap scene with their 1992 underground album Listen To The Lyrics...
  
  : 8Ball and MJG
• Usher
  Usher (entertainer)
  Usher Terry Raymond IV , who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American singer-songwriter, and actor. He is considered around the world to be the reigning King of R&B. Usher rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100...
  
  
• Ludacris
  Ludacris
  Christopher Brian Bridges , better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings...
  
  
• Oobie
• DJ Flexx
• R. Kelly
  R. Kelly
  Robert Sylvester Kelly , better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. A native of Chicago, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement. In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play...
  
  
• Nate Dogg
  Nate Dogg
  Nathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, was an American musician. He is noted for his membership of rap trio 213 and his solo career in which he collaborated with Dr. Dre, Warren G, Tupac and Snoop Dogg on many hit releases. Nate Dogg released three solo albums, G-Funk...
  
  
• Suga Free
  Suga Free
  Dejuan Rice , better known by his stage name Suga Free, is an American rapper from Pomona, California.-Biography:Suga Free was born in Oakland and raised in Compton, later becoming based in Pomona, California....
  
  
• Snoop Dogg
  Snoop Dogg
  Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
  
  
• Ying Yang Twins
  Ying Yang Twins
  The Ying Yang Twins is an Atlanta-based American crunk rap duo consisting of Kaine and D-Roc . The group debuted in 2000 and rose to mainstream popularity in 2003 collaborating with Lil Jon in his single "Get Low"...
  
  : Kaine and D-Roc

• Pharrell (Pharrell Williams)
• Bun B
  Bun B
  Bernard Freeman better known by his stage name Bun B, is an American rapper and was one half of the southern hip hop duo UGK . He is also a guest lecturer at Rice University located in Houston, Texas...
  
  
• Jadakiss
  Jadakiss
  Jason Phillips , better known as Jadakiss, is an American rapper. He is a member of the group The LOX. Jadakiss is one of the three owners of the imprint known as D-Block. In early 2007, Jadakiss signed to Roc-a-Fella Records / Def Jam Records.-Early life:By the age of 16, Jadakiss was a freestyle...
  
  
• Nas
  Nas
  Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, who performs under the name Nas , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in hip hop and one of the most skilled and influential rappers of all-time...
  
  
• T.I.
  T.I.
  Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. , better known by his stage name T.I., is an American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author. He is also the founder and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....
  
  
• Elephant Man
• Lady Saw
  Lady Saw
  Lady Saw is a Jamaican reggae singer, known as the queen of dancehall.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pitbull
  Pitbull (rapper)
  Armando Christian Pérez , better known by his stage name Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer. His first recorded performance was from the Lil Jon album Kings of Crunk in 2002, after which he released his debut album in 2004 titled M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records...
  
  
• Daddy Yankee
  Daddy Yankee
  Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez , known artistically as Daddy Yankee, is a Latin Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican Reggaeton recording artist. Ayala was born in Río Piedras, the largest district of San Juan, where he became interested in music at a young age. In his youth he was interested in baseball,...
  
  
• Terror Squad
  Terror Squad (group)
  Terror Squad is an American hip hop collective that was first established in 1998. Based in The Bronx borough of New York City, the members of Terror Squad collectively debuted on a song in member Fat Joe's album Don Cartagena...
  
  : Fat Joe
  Fat Joe
  Joseph Antonio Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad....
  
  , Cool & Dre
  Cool & Dre
  Cool & Dre are a team of hip hop producers from Miami, Florida, consisting of Marcello "Cool" Valenzano and Andre "Dre" Christopher Lyon.-Epidemic Records:...
  
  , DJ Khaled
  DJ Khaled
  Khaled bin Abdul Khaled , better known by his stage name DJ Khaled, is an American record producer, radio personality, DJ, and record label executive. He is a radio host for the Miami-based urban music radio station WEDR and the DJ for the hip hop group Terror Squad. In 2006, Khaled released his...
  
  , K.A.R., Armageddon, Tony Sunshine
  Tony Sunshine
  Tony Sunshine is an American R&B singer of Puerto Rican descent, famous for singing on a large amount of Terror Squad's songs. He sang on tracks such as Cuban Link's Still Telling Lies, Fat Joe's All I Need and Big Pun's 100%. He released his own single on Jive Records titled: "Oh My God"...
  
  
• Ma$e
• Eminem
  Eminem
  Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...
  
  
• Trick Daddy
  Trick Daddy
  Maurice Young , better known by his stage name Trick Daddy, is a certified platinum American rapper and producer from Miami, Florida.-Music career:...
  
  
• Twista
  Twista
  Carl Terrell Mitchell , better known by his stage name Twista, is an American rapper. He is known for once holding the title of fastest rapper in the world according to Guinness World Records in 1992, being able to pronounce 598 syllables in 55 seconds...
  
  
• N.O.R.E.
  N.O.R.E.
  Victor Santiago, Jr., best known by his stage name N.O.R.E. or Noreaga , is an American rapper of Puerto Rican descent...
  
  
• Bad Brains
  Bad Brains
  Bad Brains is an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C., in 1977. They are widely regarded as among the pioneers of hardcore punk, though the band's members objected to this term to describe their music. They are also an adept reggae band, while later recordings featured elements of...
  
  

Main production

• Jonathan "Lil Jon" Smith
  Lil Jon
  Jonathan Mortimer Smith , better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, music producer, entrepreneur, and occasional disc jockey who was a member of the group Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. Lil Jon formed the group in 1997, and the group released several albums between then and 2004...
  
  
• Rick Rubin
  Rick Rubin
  Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin is an American record producer and the co-president of Columbia Records. Along with Russell Simmons, Rubin was the co-founder of Def Jam Records and also established American Recordings...
  
  
• DJ Flexx

• The Neptunes
  The Neptunes
  The Neptunes are a record production duo consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who are credited with contributing the sound for many successful hip hop, R&B and pop artists in the late-1990s and 2000s...
  
  
• Scotty Beats
• Lil Jay
  Crime Mob
  Crime Mob was a hip hop/crunk group consisting of six members, M.I.G., Cyco Black, Princess, Lil' Jay, Diamond, and Killa C....
  
  

Executive production

• Jonathan "Lil Jon" Smith
• Bryan Leach
• Rob McDowell

• Emperor Searcy
• Vince Phillips

Engineers

• Chris Steinmetz
• DJ Flexx
• Josh Butler
• Andrew Coleman
• Abel Garibaldi
• Wassim Zreik
• Ian Mereness
• Mark Vinten

• Chris Carmouche
  Chris Carmouche
  Chris Carmouche , known as "Mouche" is a producer, recording engineer and rapper. In 2004, Carmouche won a Grammy for his work on Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jason Lader
• Brian Sumner
• Gary Fly Assistant
• Stephen Georgiafandis
• Paolo Sheehy
• John Frye
• Warren Bletcher (as.)

Supervisors

• Greg "Frosty" Smith

• John Frye

Mixing and Mastering

• Jonathan "Lil Jon" Smith
• Andrew Scheps
• Scotty Beats
• Jason Lader
• John Frye

• Warren Bletcher (as.)
• Gary Fly Assistant (as.)
• Michael Watts
  Michael Watts
  Michael J. Watts is "Class of 1963" Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left. An intensively productive scholar, he works on a variety of themes from African development to contemporary...
  
   (Remixing, only Chopped & Screwed Version)
• Tom Coyne (mas.)

Instrumentation

• Guitars: Craig Love
• Keyboards: L-Roc, Scott Storch
  Scott Storch
  Scott Storch is an American record producer. He produces a variety of music, particularly hip hop, reggaeton, and R&B. His label, Storch Music Company responsible for signing Brooke Hogan and Nox...
  
  

• Bass: LaMarquis Mark Jefferson

Design and Photography

• Design: Benjamin Wheelock

• Photography: Michael Blackwell

Album

Charts (2004)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	3
UK Albums Top 75	52
France Albums Top 150	145

Singles

Year	Song	Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	Hot Rap Tracks Hot Rap Tracks Rap Songs is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. It lists the 25 most popular hip-hop/rap songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations and sales in hip hop-focused or exclusive markets. From 1989 through 2001, it was based on how much the single...	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Tracks	UK Singles Top 75	Germany Singles Top 100	New Zealand Top 40	Ireland Singles Top 50	Australia Singles Top 50	Swiss Singles Top 100
2004	"What U Gon' Do"	#22	#8	#13	#38*	-	-	#93	-	-
2004	"Real Nigga Roll Call"	-	-	#61	#38	#38	-	-	-	-
2004	"Lovers & Friends"	#3	-	#2	#10	#68	#15	#22	#36	#44

• In the UK "Real Nigga Roll Call" charted as "Roll Call" together with "What U Gon' Do" as a double A-side single.

External links

• Lovers & Friends: The Softer Side Of Crunk