Forget what you think that you
know about Lil Jon.
That's pretty cool-lookin'.
This is a guy that is geeked out
on home improvement and design.
Anitra is the trained designer.
I'm the idea guy!
Why don't we just take this whole wall out,
take the ceiling out, and go up like 20 feet.
♪ I wanna do what? ♪
I love walking into somebodies house
and turning it upside down.
You wanna do what?
I love it. I love it!
Trust us.
(techno music)
♪ I wanna do what? ♪
You have no idea how much I love this concept
and how grateful I am to you.
How did little John get into design?
It all happened because we were living kind of by coastal.
We were living in LA and in Atlanta,
and our home in Atlanta, um, had a flood.
It was flooding for a week and we did not know.
And, um, so we basically had to gut the house,
we went through three contractors
and in, in dealing with the contractors and
trying to figure out what we wanted to do with the house,
um, I one day was binge watching
home improvement television shows.
And then I saw my co-host Anitra.
Um, she had a show and I was like
I really like, you know, her style.
I like what she did with the homes.
And I reached out and was like, yo, I'm, you know
doing my house over. Can you help?
And, and so she came in on the project
um, and we just started to click.
How is this changing your life
and what have you discovered, like
just about yourself in doing this type
of programming versus making music for people?
Well, it was like when we were doing my house myself
and the nature, we really, I, I pulled out all the stops
and custom everything and really creative things
in my house.
So I have, I was like,
I want to do a speakeasy door-
speakeasy door, to go into my home theater.
So that's one thing we did.
And I, I, I gotta give credit to Anitra's husband
because he's the one that saw, like, he was like
you guys need to do a show.
You guys are really good together.
So smart!
Yeah. So that's how, you know, it all really
really came together because of Adam, her husband.
And um, it's just really fun, man
because people want to get out of their comfort zones
but they really don't wanna get out of their comfort zone.
So, like, someone like myself and Anitra
we come in and we push the envelope
and it it's amazing for me because it's a new world
but it's kinda like how I create music.
It's like, I, when you're in the studio, ideas just flow.
And that's exactly how my design style is.
When we walk into a home, the home speaks to me, you know
the energy in the home dictates what happens
and people are working with limited, you know
budgets and hard earned money that they have.
So like, I, we, we really fight
for everything and call in favors and
and give people something that they're totally blown away
with at the end of the day.
And I think they're not expecting me
and Anitra to be as good as we are
with capturing what they are, the people that they are.
Cause we are not just designing it like saying, okay
we are gonna do this because we want to do this.
Right? In someones space.
We have to also incorporate their vibe,
their style into the space.
We can't just go, just do whatever we want. You know?
So when we reveal their spaces to them
they're just like blown away because they had no idea
and didn't expect, you know, for us to be able to, to just
just do something that
they never would've thought of themselves.