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Following Lil Jon’s recent Breakfast Club interview where he failed to credit Three 6 Mafia and Memphis, Tennessee for creating Crunk Music, it’s time to revisit the history and give proper acknowledgment to the true originators of one of Hip-Hop’s most electrifying sub-genres.
Let’s set the record straight: Crunk Music was born in Memphis—not Atlanta.
Long before the world heard “Get Low” or “Knuck If You Buck,” Memphis had already laid the foundation. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, DJ Spanish Fly, DJ Squeeky, and DJ Zirk were pioneering a raw, bass-heavy, chant-driven style of Hip-Hop on underground mixtapes that circulated through the South. Their sound—dark, aggressive, and hypnotic—formed the DNA of what we now call Crunk Music.…