White tees that stretched to the knee. Gold grills on teeth and cars. And accents slathered with so much sauce they forced the words to shapeshift. The crunk era of hip-hop took Andre 3000’s prophetic ...

"Halftime (Stand Up and Get Crunk)" appears on the Ying Yang Twins' 2004 album "My Brother and Me." At the time of its release, "Halftime" passed largely unnoticed. Five years later, the Saints have ...

"GET CRUNK" AND "CHOPPA STYLE" were missing their missing ingredients on Sunday. The fans, aka "The Who Dat Nation." Hearing the songs on television without fan attendance was like having a bowl of ...

New Orleans Saints owner / vice-chaiman Rita Benson LeBlanc hangs with the Ying Yang Twins before a game against the Carolina Panthers at the Superdome on December 8, 2013. The Atlanta rap duo's ...

1997: In the mid-to-late 1990s, a perceived East Coast versus West Coast rap war was a media coverage mainstay, and gangsta rap was as popular as it would ever be. It was against this backdrop that ...

Hip-hop's hottest trends have a habit of bubbling up from the underground. Now it's crunk music, with its rowdy exhortations to get buck-wild, that has busted up through the concrete.When performed ...

Hip-hop and booze are a match made in marketing heaven. Jay-Z made $2.5 million last year endorsing Budweiser and others; Diddy pushes Ciroc Vodka; Kanye West appears in Absolut ads. But Lil Jon went ...

You know what sounds better than a whole string of Black Cats popping off? The nearly epileptic frequency at which hip-hop superstar Lil’ Jon repeats his infamous catch phrase, “YEAAAHHH!!” Join him ...

From T-town to Atlanta all the way to Savannah to Alabama I be damn a club ain't crunk in this manner." From a Grammys perspective, this is the year of crunk, with Usher earning eight nominations for ...

WHADDUP, DAWG? You still usin’ that wack steelo? Talkin’ all last year? You need to bounce wit’ that and get caught up on the latest lingo. How are you gonna floss with blingin’ ice and fly gear if ...