LL Cool J focuses his attention back to the women in his latest single, ‘Know Your Name’, featuring Jeremy Austin and taken from his upcoming G.O.A.T. 2 project.
In related news, the New York giant also squashed his beef with Canibus, which is dope — you can read more about that here.
Here’s yet another drop from LL’s upcoming G.O.A.T. 2 project.
The pretty to-the-point ‘Break Your Face’ is taken from LL Cool J’s upcoming album G.O.A.T. 2, and is produced by 808 Mafia.
LL Cool J gets introspective on his latest track ‘Tell Tha World’, another precursor to the upcoming G.O.A.T. 2 album.
LL Cool J sheds the romance for some tried and true New York Hip-Hop in the form of ‘I’m Nice’, which features Raekwon, Murda Mook & why-did-they-add-him Ron Browz. Taken from the upcoming sequel to the classic G.O.A.T..
Directed by Benny Boom and taken from LL Cool J’s upcoming sequel to the classic album G.O.A.T.
The dopest of this lineup, as well as the overall nostalgia this style of Hip-Hop brings, is slightly tainted by the horrid AutoTuning from Row Browz. I just don’t understand this dude.
Anyway, LL Cool J’s G.O.A.T. 2 is on the way. Also: check out the Mavado-assisted single ‘The Hustler‘.
Spotted on CBS Boston:
It’s college graduation time in Boston and today Northeastern grads had a special guest and honoree. Actor and musician LL Cool J was there to see his daughter graduate and to become “Doctor” Cool J.
“I’ve been called a few things, but never a doctor, that’s for sure,” Cool J says laughing. His given name is James Todd Smith, but as LL Cool J he helped move Hip-Hop music into the popular culture.
As an actor, he’s now one of the stars of the CBS show “NCIS Los Angeles.” For his accomplishments, Northeastern awarded him an honorary Doctor of Arts degree. “For them to recognize my body of work and my contributions to the world of art is an amazing feeling,” he says.
But his biggest joy today was seeing his daughter, Italia Smith, graduate with honors. And it was great for her to have her dad on stage. “It was emotional, it was exciting, I’m just happy to reach a new milestone,” she says.
“It made me feel real proud because I know she put a lot of hard work in, a lot of dedication, a lot of commitment and a lot of hours,” says the proud father.
You can read more — including being asked about the upcoming season finale of NCIS LA — here.
LL Cool J links with DJ Whoo Kid (again) for new record called ‘All Night Long’. Check out the new record below.
LL Cool J stopped by The Arsenio Hall Show last night…during the interview, he talked about Michael Jackson, Kanye West, new rappers and more….you can check out additional clip below.
I happened upon this during Whoo Kid’s ‘Whoolywood Shuffle’ this weekend, and was very surprised to hear LL Cool J spitting one of the best verses he’s ever created over DJ Mustard’s production. Check it out for yourself below…..and to think it all started from a simple dare.
In the midst of all the hoopla, I overlooked LL Cool J’s hosting spot for this year’s GRAMMYs. He recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to speak on the upcoming awards show, touring, doing music for 3 decades and more. Additional clip below.
In celebration of Hip-Hop’s 40th anniversary, XXL is taking their readers down memory lane with their top 10 most influential albums and songs in the last four decades. The magazine, which comes in five covers, hits newsstands December 31st.
112’s Q Parker links up with Day 26’s Willie Taylor and Hip-Hop God LL Cool J for a new record that I thought was just fine with the assistance of Raheem Devaughn.
LL Cool J sees the numbers (in this case, Jay-Z immediate million sold for Magna Carta… Holy Grail), but feels that it’s not “touching the people”. Sounds like hating to me.
Courtesy of Hip-Hop Heisenberg:
LL Cool J brings out DMC to perform “Peter Piper” during the Kings of the Mic at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
I don’t think most folks really came down to New Orleans for Hip-Hop, and the above performance probably didn’t help matters any. They performed ‘Rampage’, if anyone wanted to know.
Action Bronson turns his ode to jeeps into a Queens anthem by enlisting Lloyd Banks & Uncle L for the remix. Check it out below.
D-Dot Omen liberates the DJ Premier-produced cut from Cool J’s Authentic, which, while an admirable record, doesn’t quite get that bad taste out of our collective mouths from ‘Accidental Racist‘. Judge me.
The man who probably ended his career effectively following ‘Accidental Racist‘ has his new album streaming on Amazon. Authentic drops April 30th.
Ladies Love Cool James appeared on The Tonight Show to talk about his upbringing, Men’s Fitness and the idiocy that is ‘Accidental Racist‘.
Cool J and his country buddy try to explain the du rag, red flag travesty that is their latest collaboration to ABC News.
After the recent clusterfuck that was ‘Accidental Racist‘, LL Cool J releases the duo’s other collaboration from his Authentic project.
I don’t think anyone is checking for country rap tunes (not counting UGK) since Nelly & Tim McGraw got in bed with each other. You see how Kid Rock had to take a seat.
LL Cool J did speak on the collab:
“You know, working with Brad was amazing. We did one for his album, which is called ‘Accidental Racist,’ which I think is very thought provoking and very interesting. It’s going to get a lot of attention… and I’ll leave it at that ’cause I wanna let him [talk about it]… I don’t wanna spoil his thing on his album but we did something that was really cool. The song we did on my record… it’s not like I’m trying to do a gimmicky thing. It’s not like, ‘Oh the country meets the rapper and it’s a hoedown!’ It’s none of that. He’s a great singer. I let him sing on something that I felt he would sound cool on… And play the guitar as well because musicianship is a huge part of this record. That’s why I also got like Bootsy Collins on this album. I wanted great musicians on my album. Brad was a lot of fun in the studio. He’s playing the guitar. I mean, this whole album is like a genre-smashing moment.”
