Who Started Crunk Music? Lil Jon, Master P, Three 6 Mafia All Claim Crown
Who Started Crunk Music??? Lil Jon, Master P & No Limit, Three 6 Mafia?!?
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Lil Jon stirred up a Southern hornet's nest on "The Breakfast Club" this week when he split the crunk music roots between Atlanta, New Orleans and Memphis ... and DJ Paul has something to say!!!
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The Three 6 Mafia de facto leader took to IG to stamp Memphis as the true originator of crunk music ... noting how, as a lifelong Outkast fan, they grew up with "booty shake" music as ATLiens and joked it was GOD -- by way of Three 6 Mafia -- who delivered the club-rocking sound to the world!!!
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Paul counts ATL and NOLA as complementary cousins to the Memphis movement, which was not too far off from Jon's POV.
The self-proclaimed "King Of Crunk" says coming up in Atlanta, both Master P's NOLA vibes and 8Ball & MJG Memphis bangers were essential listening and but thinks the genre really took off when Master P made the first "I'm Bout It, Bout It" track in 1995.
P also chimed in on the conversation, giving props to both Lil Jon and Three 6 Mafia, who were getting buck and tearing up clubs at the exact same time as the early No Limit Records.
Paul also acknowledged ATL's Dungeon Family as a whole for helping the crunk movement grow.
Although no one is flat-out owning up to the crunk originator title, don't forget, Lil Jon entered the Guinness World Records by purchasing a $500,000 "Crunk Ain't Dead" chain, so he clearly cares the most!!!
