Lil Jon shares his passion for skateboarding and how he got into his ‘crunk’ style of music.

Jon stated, “I was going to punk clubs in the 80s, I was a skater in the 80s before it was cool.”

He added, “Skateboarding honestly opened my mind to other cultures, other music. It made me be able to be in a room with people of different ethnicities and be able to have a conversation and relate, ’cause Atlanta is kind of segregated: Black people stay over here, the Mexicans over here, White people over here.”

He continued, “All kind of kids is skateboarding, and we skateboarding all day. All over the city, we’re spending time together and then going to the skate contest, they’re playing [The] Faction, they’re playing Bad Brains, they’re playing Dead Kennedys. They’re playing all these bands and I’m like … all the bands are in the skate videos, ’cause we were buying the skate videos on VHS.”