As Def Jam's first signee in 1984, LL Cool J has spent two decades balancing love songs with braggadocio, setting an example that most contemporary MCs have followed....
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LL Cool J's muscular physique has been a part of his career since he was a young kid rapping in a Kangol.
For years, he's made women swoon and guys envious with his rock...
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Rapper LL Cool J and R&B crooner Bill Withers will be honored for their musical contributions by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the organization...
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LL Cool J is urging fans to be financially responsible.
The platinum-selling rap star spoke over the weekend at the Hip Hop Summit on Financial Empowerment.
The event,...
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LL Cool J has canceled the remaining 12 dates on his tour due to an abdominal ailment.
"I am extremely disappointed to have to cancel the rest of this fun and successful...
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Quincy Jones is finalizing plans for his all-star We Are The Future concert, May 16, at the Circus Maximus in Rome. And he says the event, which will raise money to aid...
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Rapper and actor LL Cool J is one of the stars of the Number One movie in the country, S.W.A.T., which raked in $37 million last weekend, according to the Hollywood...
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Rap legend LL Cool J has renewed his contract with Def Jam Records according to Allhiphop.com. The rapper was initially looking for a $20 million deal but settled for an...
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The Reggae Gold 2003 compilation was released on Tuesday (June 17) on VP Records. The set includes "Make It Clap (Remix)" by Busta Rhymes featuring Spliff Star and Sean...
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LL Cool J, who is presently touring with Dru Hill, has been tapped to join the cast of Slow Burn, a crime thriller which will also star Ray Liotta and Jolene Blalock,...
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Veteran rapper LL Cool J is currently making the rounds in search of a new multi-million-dollar recording contract. The rapper released his tenth album, 10, in October on...
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Veteran rapper LL Cool J and R&B quintet Dru Hill are slated to hit the road together next month. The tour will kick-off in Dru Hill's hometown of Baltimore, Maryland on...
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Ashanti, Sheryl Crow, LL Cool J, 3LW, the B-52s, Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett, Joe Cocker, Eve, Shaggy, Fat Joe, and Everclear are among the diverse group of more than 120...
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Jennifer Lopez's latest single, "All I Have" featuring LL Cool J, recently hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The song is the second single from Lopez's...
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Ja Rule and Ashanti will perform their Grammy-nominated hit single "Always On Time" live during the halftime of the NFC Championship game featuring the Tampa Bay Buccaneers...
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LL Cool J will pay tribute to rap/hip-hop pioneers Run-DMC in a new Dr. Pepper television commercial that is set to debut during the NFL conference championships during the...
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LL Cool J, Mary J. Blige, Usher, and 3LW are featured on the soundtrack to Deliver Us From Eva, a romantic comedy starring LL Cool J and Gabrielle Union. The album--the only...
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Ellen Griffin--the grandmother of LL Cool J who raised the rapper in the tough streets of Jamaica, Queens--died last weekend following a bout with cancer. Griffin was...
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LL Cool's 10th album, 10, hits record stores Tuesday (October 15). The artist, who debuted as the first act on Def Jam Records some 17 years ago, credits his longevity to...
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LL Cool J and actress Gabrielle Union have an opportunity to get quite close in their film Deliver Us From Eva, which is being produced by Baltimore/Spring Creek...
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LL Cool J is joining Samuel L. Jackson (XXX), Colin Farrell (Minority Report), and Michelle Rodriguez (Blue Crush) in a cinematic update of the '70s action show, S.W.A.T....
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LL Cool J's 10th album, 10, due out October 15 on Def Jam Records, will mark his first profanity-free album. 10's positive tone contrasts LL's last album, G.O.A.T. Featuring...
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A radio-sponsored hip-hop/rap concert featuring LL Cool J, Nelly, and Snoop Dogg, among others, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California on Sunday (August...
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LL Cool J spent Monday and Tuesday (July 29 and 30) at the W Hotel in Los Angeles shooting the video for "Luv U Better," the first single from his tenth album, X, which is...
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LL Cool J played an hour-and-20-minute set on Thursday (July 25) at the House Of Blues in Hollywood during a stop on his national tour. The veteran rapper is set to release...
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Apparently, LL Cool J is far from losing his ability to swoon women with his charismatic, introspective hip-hop ballads. His song "Love You Better," the first single from...
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In September LL Cool J and Doug E. Fresh will release the first two books in a new series of read & rap-a-long books, dubbed Hip Kid Hop, for children 4-10 years old. Each...
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Veteran rapper-actor LL Cool J has recently spent more time on the silver screen then on stages across the country, but hip-hop's resident heartthrob is set to return to the...
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Fat Joe is currently enjoying the success of his latest release, Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.), which has been certified platinum for sales of a million copies.
Fat...
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Legendary rapper and actor LL Cool J is currently preparing for the February 8 release of his new movie, Rollerball. The movie, set in 2005, centers around the violent...
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The children of hip-hop superstar and actor LL Cool J will probably never celebrate a Christmas without being showered with gifts. But the hugely successful artist, who has...
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LL Cool J is in Los Angeles filming Deliver Us From Eva, a romantic comedy that also stars Gabrielle Union. In the USA movie, three men hire Ray (LL Cool J) to seduce their...
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LL Cool J is reportedly set to star in USA Films' Deliver Us From Eva, a romantic comedy that will feature the rapper-actor as a born ladies' man paid $5,000 to go out with...
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Rapper-actor LL Cool J has reportedly just made a deal to star in and executive produce the Dimension Films remake of Dolemite, the 1975 cult classic that starred Rudy Ray...
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Veteran rapper and actor LL Cool J is currently preparing for the August 17 release of his new movie, Rollerball. The film, directed by John McTiernan, also stars Chris...
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Hip-hop icon and veteran rapper LL Cool J is headed back into the studio to record the follow-up to his last album, G.O.A.T. The rapper shared how he is approaching the new...
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LL Cool J,Busta Rhymes, Wyclef Jean, Common, and Kirk Franklin proteges INC are this year's hip-hop/rap nominees in the NAACP's annual Image Awards. Previous nominees in...
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LL Cool J and Erick Sermon are among the defendants in a copyright infringement lawsuit that was filed on December 22 by four of the members of Grandmaster Flash & the...
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LL Cool J indicated earlier this week that he may no longer record for Def Jam Records since his contract is up, but he stressed that there were no hard feelings. Def Jam...
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The latest single from LL Cool J's number one album G.O.A.T. is "You And Me," featuring Kelly Price, Method Man, and Redman. The hot tune, released yesterday (October 17),...
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(10/17/00, 1 p.m. ET - Rapper LL Cool J and his New York booking agency, Famous Artists, will stand trial in the breach-of-contract suit filed earlier this month by Jerry...
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LL Cool J is in the running to be cast in Park Avenue Ghost as a hip man who is haunted by a stuffy British ghost. Rupert Everett, who has appeared in a number of films,...
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LL Cool J may have to hand over some of the dough he's generated with his Number One-debuting album G.O.A.T. He is due in New York State Supreme Court Wednesday (October 4)...
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LL Cool J says he had few doubts that his new album, G.O.A.T., would strike a note with fans. After all, the album, named with an acronym for "Greatest Of All Time,"...
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LL Cool J's The G.O.A.T. debuts in the Number One position on this week's album sales chart, ending an impressive five-week run by fellow rapper Nelly.
According to...
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Rapper-actor LL Cool J's new album, G.O.A.T., is out this week. The title is an acronym for "Greatest Of All Time" and, as LL explains, "I thought that the title was just...
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LL Cool J will release G.O.A.T., his first album since 1997, on Sept. 12. The Queens, N.Y., artist, whose first album, Radio, was released in 1985, is one of the few...
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LL Cool J stands for "Ladies Love Cool J," and the Queens, New York, rapper enjoys living up to his rap moniker, building his career on songs that focus on women. LL keeps...
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LL Cool J built his career on songs that praise women, so it's no surprise that the Queens, New York, rapper-actor appreciates the fairer sex. In fact, "Imagine That," the...
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LL Cool J has long been a hip-hop sex symbol, and the Queens, New York rapper-actor is hoping to cash in on that status yet again with the first single from his forthcoming...
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LL Cool J and Queen Latifah were among the artists scheduled to close the Impact! Super Summit XIV on Saturday (April 29).
LL Cool J, whose new album, G.O.A.T., is...
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Black Entertainment Television (BET) will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a star-studded gala at the Jubilee Theater at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on May...
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Mary J. Blige,
LL Cool J ,
Montell Jordan,
Q-Tip
, Tyra Banks, and Kobe Bryant will among those performing music during the NBA's All-Star Weekend, which starts today...
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LL Cool J tells us he'll never blame popular entertainment for the decline of Western civilization. The rapper-turned-actor stars as the heinous gang lord "God" in the...
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Renny Harlin's sharks-gone-mad flick Deep Blue Sea boasts actors such as Samuel L. Jackson and LL Cool J. However, it is one of the movie's non-human co-stars who stole...
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Hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, who has introduced the world to Run-DMC, LL Cool J and Method Man, among others, wants out of his deal with PolyGram.
Simmons, who...
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Arnold Stiefel, whose music management career includes Rod Stewart and the R&B group Shai, has just bought the film rights to Dominick Dunne's O.J.-inspired novel, Another...
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Warren G, LL Cool
J, Run-DMC, Mobb
Deep, Redman and Onyx have all contributed to an unlikely European project called Rapsody--a compilation of rap and R&B superstars...
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