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Lil Jon believes he came up with one of his worst choruses ever while making his smash hit "Get Low."
On Wednesday, July 30, the King of Crunk appeared on the One Song podcast with Diallo Riddle and Blake “Luxxury” Robin. Jon explained why he wasn't impressed by the original version of his breakthrough song with the East Side Boyz and Ying Yang Twins.
“I go in the studio and try to get a chorus to it, and I think I come up with the whackest chorus I've ever done in my entire career,” Jon explained. “And this is the first place anyone but the engineers and whoever was in the studio with us has heard this.”
Lil Jon said he was inspired to make the song after he heard DMX's "Party Up." He started recording "Get Low" in the late '90s, but it wasn't released until 2002. Jon said he was uneasy about the record while making the demo. He played the first draft of the chorus, which had the lyrics "Let it go" instead of "Get low."
“That was not it, man,” he said about the demo. “Like, it's crazy to go from that to ‘the window to the wall, oh skeet skeet.’”
“We didn’t think it was a smash," he continued. "We were just … coming up with ideas in the studio. We record this and it didn't make the light of day."
Luckily, they tweaked up and created the version fans know and love today. The Atlanta hitmaker included "Get Low" as part of the group's fourth studio album Kings of Crunk. He released it as a single in 2003, and it quickly topped the charts. The song was also added to several film and video game soundtracks in the 2000s.
Watch the official music video for "Get Low" and the entire interview below.