Trillville is an American hip hop group formed in 1997. Its founding members are Donnell Don P Prince, Dirty Mouth (born Jamal Glaze), and LA (formerly Lil LA and Lil Atlanta; born Lawrence Edwards). Dirty Mouth left the group in 2007 to pursue a solo career and returned in 2011.

Biography

The three members of Trillville met as high school students in

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. Glaze led the

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s in the school's marching band, Don P wrote rhymes and produced beats on his keyboard, and Edwards was an aspiring promoter. They named their group "Trillville" combining the words "truth" and "real", with " Prince ", Glaze "Dirty Mouth", and Edwards "Lil Atlanta" (later "Lil LA" and "LA").

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discovered Trillville at a sold-out show and signed the group to

BME Recordings Jonathan H. Smith (born January 17, 1971) better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, producer and former frontman of the rap group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz. He was instrumental in the emergence of the hip hop subgenre cru ...

. Trillville debuted in 2003 with the single "

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2003 ...

", which peaked at #77 on the

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and #28 on the

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charts in 2004. Collaborating with

Lil Scrappy Darryl Raynard Richardson III (born January 19, 1984), better known by his stage name Lil Scrappy, is an American rapper. Richardson was discovered by producer and performer Lil Jon while performing at a bar in Atlanta. Along with labelmates Tr ...

, Trillville came out with debut album '' The King of Crunk & BME Recordings Present: Trillville & Lil Scrappy'' in 2004. It featured the single " Some Cut", which peaked at #14 on the

in 2005. ''

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'' described ''Trillville & Lil Scrappy'' as a

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album and quoted Don P: "Our music is about whatever will make people move those lbowsand be free about whatever they do." Dirty Mouth left Trillville in 2007 to pursue a solo career, and Trillville left BME in January 2008. Trillville's second album '' Straight Up. No Chaser'' came out in 2008 released under the Swag Up label. With Dirty Mouth returning, Trillville released third album ''3 Da' Hard Way'' in 2011., Recently Trillville has released their new group album “Dat Drip” on September 7, 2018.

Albums

Mixtapes

Singles

Music videos

*(2004) "Neva Eva" *(2004) "Get Some Crunk In Yo System" *(2004) "Some Cut" *(2005) "Nothing Less" *(2005) "Watch Me Do This"

References

External links

Trillville official website (archived from 2005)
{{Authority control African-American musical groups American crunk groups Musical groups from Georgia (U.S. state) Rappers from Atlanta Southern hip hop groups