One of Lil Jon’s greatest hits almost went in a completely different direction.
In an upcoming episode of the One Song podcast, the rapper sat down with Diallo Riddle and Blake “Luxxury” Robin to share one of the first drafts of his 2002 hit single, “Get Low,” before it became the timeless crunk anthem it is today.
“I go in the studio and try to get a chorus to it, and I think I come up with the whackest chorus I've ever done in my entire career,” Jon said in the video linked above. “And this is the first place anyone but the engineers and whoever was in the studio with us has heard this.”
“We didn’t think it was a smash. We were just … coming up with ideas in the studio. We record this and it didn't make the light of day,” he explained.
At the 51-second mark, Lil Jon played the demo of the track which features a robot-like voice repeating “Let it go, let it go,” instead of the now-infamous “To the window, to the wall” chant.
“That was not it, man,” he told Riddle and Robin after playing the demo. “Like, it's crazy to go from that to ‘the window to the wall, oh skeet skeet.’”
Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz released “Get Low” featuring the Ying Yang Twins on the 2002 album Kings of Crunk but the song was let loose as a single the following year. It peaked at number two on the Hot 100 and spent 45 weeks on the chart, according to Billboard.
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