Alright, following up on my Top 5 Favorite Rap Groups list, I think I’ll go ahead and list my top 5 favorite solo rappers. To be clear, unlike most people or websites that try to rank rappers on a list like this, this isn’t meant to be any type of “official” unbiased list, declaring who…
Released August 1990 Def Jam Recordings After his blistering debut RADIO was released in 1985, LL Cool J followed that up with 1987’s BIGGER AND DEFFER which established him as a mainstream rap star. In 1989 he released WALKING WITH A PANTHER, a double-album. While commercially successful, and containing several hits, including the classic GOING…
Released June 2, 1987 Def Jam Records A little under 2 years after his debut album RADIO, a now 19-year old LL Cool J released his 2nd album, Bigger And Deffer (BAD, get it?). By this time producer Rick Rubin had left Def Jam to go off and form his own new company, so LL…
Released November 18,1985 Def Jam Recordings Just about two months shy of his 18th birthday, LL Cool J exploded on the hip-hop scene like an atomic bomb when he released his debut album on Def Jam Recordings. There was nothing like him before this. I remember an early interview with Run, of Run-DMC, where he…
So, I actually bought a physical CD today. That’s such a rare occasion for me, these days. Like most folks, I mostly buy music via iTunes. Stacy Clark is the only artist I make a point to still buy the hard copy of her new albums, but that’s because I know her personally, and I…
There are good movies that, for whatever reason, don’t make much of an impression on the public when they were released. They either bombed in the theater, or just went straight-to-dvd. This is one of them. I’ve been a fan of LL Cool J ever since his first album came out. For a long time…
Years ago, on Myspace, I wrote a blog listing 99 random facts about me. I don’t remember all that I wrote, but I’d been considering writing a new version for this blog. Inspired by this post, I’d decided to try again, but only with 25 facts, since that will be easier. 1/MY FULL NAME IS…
Let’s look @ the news. First Thoughts: Romney’s clear path I’m beginning to think that, instead of a Mormon, Mitt Romney is actually a Satanist. Because it seems like he must have made a deal with the devil to get him the GOP Presidential nomination. So far, he’s been running the perfect campaign, he has…
