Lil Jon on new guided meditation albums: “Mental health is an extreme priority to me”

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Lil Jon has opened up about his pair of albums of guided meditation, saying that mental health is “an extreme priority” for him.The Atlanta rapper, crucial to the breakthrough of crunk music in the 2000s, has made the left turn to releasing albums of meditation in 2024, with February’s ‘Total Meditation’ and May’s ‘Manifest Abundance: Affirmations Of Personal Growth’.The ambient tracks contain positive affirmations from the rapper – get a taste of them below.He has given a new interview to CNN where he speaks about people’s initial reaction to the albums. “Some people were like, ‘What is this gonna sound like?

Is he gonna be yelling?’” he said.“Once it came out and people heard, people were like, ‘Okay, this is actually pretty good.’ And I got so many messages of people telling me how they never meditated and how I helped them to meditate, or how specific songs helped them to deal with issues in their lives.”Talking about the inspiration for the records, he added: “It’s a journey that I’m on.

I have probably still like five more albums worth of stuff that we didn’t drop yet. It is a priority to me.”“Mental health is an extreme priority to me because, you know, Black men, we’re taught to just suck it up and hold it in.

I’m trying to give people options of how to deal with their mental stress.”Speaking to Rolling Stone about ‘Total Meditation’ earlier this year, Lil Jon revealed how he came across guided meditation during a turbulent time in his personal life.“Once I turned 50, a lot of things started to happen.