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LL Cool J is not ready till he passes to odor the roses — he is ordered himself a bouquet of Hip Hop flowers and the little card reads, “HE’S THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!”
That was the DEFinitive assertion when LL just lately sat with Apple Music’s “Le Code” podcast the place he put his legacy in stone … “I’m going to say this humbly, but I really mean this … I think one day people are going to wake up and realize that LL Cool J is the most important rapper that ever existed. I truly believe one day people are going to say that.”
He colorfully continued to make his case utilizing an array of bejeweled metaphors, however LL spit his brightest gems reminding followers of the game-changers he contributed to Hip Hop tradition.
“They’re gonna say relating to the love songs, they’re gonna say, ‘This is the guy that introduced the love songs and all the love sh*t.’
“When it comes to the G.O.A.T terminology, they gon’ say, ‘This is the guy who came up with all the G.O.A.T stuff,’ I could go on and on and on.”
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Earlier than everybody goes all scorched earth on LL, simply know he is in all probability been rocking the bells earlier than most of at the moment’s streaming viewers was even born.
His first album, 1985’s “Radio,” was Def Jam’s first LP … and his 2000 album, “G.O.A.T. featuring James T. Smith: The Greatest of All Time” just about speaks for itself on the place he is lengthy seen his place within the sport.
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We spoke to him in August after the discharge of his (fourteenth!!!) album “The Force” and he fiercely defended the work ethic it takes to be a profitable rapper.
Is LL Cool J The Biggest Rapper Ever?
So we gotta ask … is LL the 🐐 or nah?
