LL Cool J - Classic or Dud?

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Classic, if only for "Mama Said...." the song. He absolutely tears across that track.

"Listen to the way I SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAY your crew."

― Nick H, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 10:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I want to meet him so I can say "ladies love cool james" in a variety of increasingly silly voices until he goes INSANE. Or twats me

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

he is a great example of how ladies do love cool james's.

classic now dud (although the track he did about booty (i think it was with ludacris????? was pretty cool) so i guess he is classic with the occasional daliance in to dud

― james (james), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lately, massive dud. Early on, classic.

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Are those beefcake videos meant to be totally over-the-top?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

anyone who thinks LL fell off should go download "the ripper strikes back" right now

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, every video he's made is supposed to be over the top.
He's such a little post-modern prankster!

(Jess, one hot song does not a career revival make)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I mean all the low-angle shots of LL rubbing his bare chest and licking his lips....

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Classic. The Rod Stewart of the rap world. Unstoppable, immediately identifiable, even when it's crap, it's LL's crap, and could be no one else's.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

he doesn't need a career revival! he never went anywhere! he's the only rapper who's managed a (successful) career for this long! stop hatin!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like his stuff, tho not nearly as much as I used to (he changed, not me). I think he does that kiss-his-finger-and-toss-kiss-to-"girl" thing waaay too much, too; irritates the hell out of me.

― matt riedl (veal), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

"the ripper strikes back"..... downloaded. mind unchanged, sorry.

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Classic, on Adam F's album Kaos he totally ace's it on 'The Greatest of All Time' pure bragging bullshitting goodness...and that bass sound...woah. :)

― Maimonides (Maimonides), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 11:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

still hot!!

the art teacher in my high school wz ll cool j's cousin.

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

First song off new album:

"It's LL and Santana"

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link

my defense of LL on this thread is a little extreme

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Untoppable as a stage performer.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Extremity in the defense of LL is no vice!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Extremism, I mean.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Not everybody can be as even-tempered and realistic about LL as K is, strongo.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I gradually have realized that LL is a really horrible actor.

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Gradually?

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

It took a while to get over my desire to enjoy his presence in films like Deep Blue Sea, Halloween H20 and Mindhunters.

"eenie meanie minie mo, which muthafucka's the next to go?"

― ant@work.com, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Fools! After the mountains have crumbled to dust and the western winds blow your ashes across the horizon, El El will still be there. Forever.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Man, I got the new album with Canibus on it (Cloak n Dagga), and he's STILL dissing LL. I mean, LL knocked him the fuck out like six years ago, and he still hasn't gotten over it. Is there a word for someone who just keeps trying to fight after they've been beaten and forgotten? (By the way, that album's pretty shitty, though often inadvertantly hilarious).

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The new LL/J-Lo single is horrible.

LL has been corny as hell for years.

LL knocked him the fuck out like six years ago

LL hasn't knocked *anyone* the fuck out since like '91

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

second round KO was so much better than any of LL's disses against canibus.

i love LL though.. he's a pip.

does he still have that skinny moustache? that freaked me out for real.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

second round KO was so much better than any of LL's disses against canibus.

so true

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm just playing, I actually forgot L.L. was great in Woo. "Take off your clothes."

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

And for the record, too classic to ever be anything but classic. Radio was the first compact disc I bought.

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

classic for facing down fox news' bizzare use of an old interview. wtf to fox's snippy put-down of a response (we "wish him the best with his fledgling acting career")

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link

fledgling since the movie Toys, yeah.

― Jack traded Milky-White to the troll for a magical (remy bean), Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link

stay classy, fox news network.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TqQ0rLY-Qo

― scott seward, Saturday, 26 January 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago) link

don't sleep on LL in Maine. might change your life...

― scott seward, Saturday, 26 January 2013 01:59 (eleven years ago) link

awesome

is he playing a school dance??

― xxx heady xxx heady (haitch), Saturday, 26 January 2013 02:08 (eleven years ago) link

I have a house in Brooklyn, I live in Queens...

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 26 January 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago) link

is there such a thing as "live in Maine"?

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 January 2013 02:43 (eleven years ago) link

history maine

― some dude, Saturday, 26 January 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link

this is fantastic.

― mr.raffles, Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link

"memorieeeees..." bahahaha this video is the best.

― mr.raffles, Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link

This is rap's Gimme Shelter, Stop Making Sense, and Last Waltz rolled into one half-hour masterpiece

― Walter Galt, Sunday, 27 January 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago) link

three months pass...

what I am taking away from the first three tracks on Authentic is that LL is way more interested in collaborating with people than he is in making a cohesive album

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link

you say that as if that's at all unique for the past 15 years of hip hop

― bish don't kmt (some dude), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link

not at all unique, just... this is so LAZY

is there a gear below autopilot?

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link

authenticpilot

― bish don't kmt (some dude), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link

my entire hip-hop existence is defined by giving older dudes a massive pass and I've been pro-LL through "Headsprung" so the degree to which this whole thing is just a bland belly flop is legitimately upsetting

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link

okay bland is maybe not the best word to describe "We're The Greatest", lol

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link

LL, and increasingly Jay-Z, are kind of in a category to me of artists who've already had such unprecedented longevity that at this point anything good they do is just a bonus round and anything that sucks is like, well, they had a good run.

― bish don't kmt (some dude), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link

"my entire hip-hop existence is defined by giving older dudes a massive pass"

― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link

"my entire _____ existence is defined by giving older dudes a massive _____"

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

I am pretty sure that YouTube was invented so that one day it would be able to play this video. My friend who brought it to my attention explained it thusly:

"A German dude, who sounds like Falco, his mom driving a car and chiming in on the chorus with his dad in the back seat with an accordion and covering the scratches."

Absolutely brilliant. And when they finish the song, keep listening because German dude's outro is equally brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-VM5wqzhWY

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 22 February 2015 05:30 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

G.O.A.T, this one.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link

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