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RIAA Double Platinum Jewel For The Kings Of Crunk, LiL Jon & The East Side Boyz
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 21, 2004 New York, NY After 81 weeks, KINGS OF CRUNK, the BME/TVT Records sophomore
album from Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz has been certified double platinum
by the RIAA for U.S. sales in excess of 2 million units. The album is still
in Billboard Top 200 chart holding the #81 position, #19 on Billboard¹s
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and currently the #1 selling Independent album
in the country.
The remarkable KINGS OF CRUNK, which features Jadakiss, Mystikal, 8Ball,
Krayzie Bone, Pastor Troy and E-40, among others, has taken Crunk music from
a regional sensation to a national phenomenon. The album stands as an
artistic advancement of a group who was already at the top of its game.
In other Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz news, Lil Jon will be the celebrity
red carpet reporter at this year¹s MTV Movie Awards. Lil Jon & The East Side
Boyz will follow-up KINGS OF CRUNK with the aptly titled CRUNK JUICE
tentatively scheduled for an October 2004 release.
Powerhouse independent label, TVT Records is also home to the kings of the
club circuits Ying Yang Twins whose ME & MY BROTHER is approaching platinum.
Expected to hit stores later this year are hip-hop soul songstress Teedra
Moses, the first R&B Crunk artist Oobie, rising hip-hop starlet Jacki-O,
Cuban-American rhyme-spitter Pitbull and the highly anticipated Snoop Dogg,
Warren G & Nate Dogg group project, 213.
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