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Thread started 08/23/04 11:48am

namepeace

LL Cool J Appreciation Thread -- List your favorite LL tracks!

I just struck me, after listening to an old LL track and later seeing one of his more recent videos, how it seems that LL's true contribution to the hip-hop game gets obscured by his recent crossover appeal.

He's the first solo MC I remember who established a successful career on his own and he was a very good lyricist. He brought pure energy to the mic. To me, he's the prototype for a lot most if not all solo MC's in the game.

My fave tracks are, in no order:

Rock The Bells

Jack The Ripper

Goin' Back To Cali

I'm Bad

Candy

Jingling Baby

Doo Wop

Thoughts? Lists?
Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #1 posted 08/23/04 12:31pm

JANFAN4L

Homage.

Rock The Bells
The Boomin' System
Mama Said Knock You Out
Illegal Search
Jingling Baby (Remixed But Still Jingling)
Around The Way Girl
Loungin' (Who Do Ya Luv) (Remix featuring Total)
Hey Lover
I Can't Live Without My Radio
I Shot Ya (Remix)
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Reply #2 posted 08/23/04 12:51pm

UptownDeb

Mama Said Knock You Out
Round the Way Girl
Jingling Baby
Doin' It
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Reply #3 posted 08/23/04 12:54pm

Rhondab

everything ya'll listed so far....and I like the new too

love the I shot ya remix....he kills it.
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Reply #4 posted 08/23/04 3:47pm

PrettyMan72

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Rock the Bells
Dear yvette
I Need A Beat
I Can't Live Without My Radio
I'm Bad
The Breakthrough
My Rhyme Ain't Done
Mama Said Knock You Out
Break of Dawn
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Reply #5 posted 08/23/04 3:59pm

thesexofit

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"Round the way girl"
"Mama said knock u out"


"Why me baby" feat. Keith Sweat.....original and uptempo remix!


Good rap on bootleg Michael jackson track "Serious effect" too!
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Reply #6 posted 08/23/04 5:18pm

psykosoul

I Can't Live Without My Radio
Dear Yvette
Rock the Bells
Kanday
I'm Bad
Jingling Baby
Goin' Back to Cali
The Bristol Hotel
My Rhyme Ain't Done
Mama Said Knock You Out
I'm That Type of Guy
Big Ole Butt
Pink Cookies In A Plastic Bag Getting Crushed by Buildings
Hey Lover
Doin It

IMO, everything else released after 95 was bullshit. confused
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Reply #7 posted 08/23/04 7:25pm

paisleypark4

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Amazing

Around The Way Girl

Loungin (remix)

I Need Love

Hello

Doin It

Boomin System

Big Ol Butt

Jingling Baby
Straight Jacket Funk Affair
Album plays and love for vinyl records.
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Reply #8 posted 08/23/04 7:26pm

paisleypark4

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oh....


1234

and Im BAD!
Straight Jacket Funk Affair
Album plays and love for vinyl records.
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Reply #9 posted 08/23/04 7:45pm

heybaby

hey lover

radio

rock the bells
round the way girl
doin it
goin back to cali
i'm bad
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Reply #10 posted 08/23/04 8:09pm

theVelvetRoper

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Doin' It
Hey Lover
Loungin' (Remix)
Goin' Back to Cali
Rock the Bells
Around the Way Girl
'Cause your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance... well, they're no friends of mine.
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Reply #11 posted 08/23/04 9:39pm

Dewrede

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He sux
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Reply #12 posted 08/24/04 2:41am

CalhounSq

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Kanday
I Need Love
Doin' It
Imagine That
Radio
heart prince I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it prince heart
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Reply #13 posted 08/24/04 10:26am

Dancelot

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there's to many songs out there, and I trust you folks that you listed all the goodies already wink
LL gotta get BIG props, no doubt. are there any rap acts that had a career running longer than his? with the same success? none that I can think of right now...
Vanglorious... this is protected by the red, the black, and the green. With a key... sissy!
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Reply #14 posted 08/24/04 5:14pm

rockwilder

"not Buckaroo Banzai,but bustin' out as I/say the kinda' rhymes that make m.c.'s wish that I die"


another of my fave lines of his:"she's always feelin' on my niggy-niggy nuts/for a snack/corn flakes,cracker jacks/day after day ..I try to break that back and/man,oh man,damn you can't and I can/last time I saw her ex man/I had to shake homeboy's hand/I said'What up?"/He said,"What up?"/'i took yo' girl so,what up?"/"Got her walking around with her hole all full up""
"I'm a pig..so,magic elixir I swill"
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Reply #15 posted 08/24/04 6:31pm

UptownDeb

Anyone know why he rocked the bells (Kangols) back in the day? I mean, it's only been recently that we've actually seen him without a cap. Why did we never see him without it for all those years?
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Reply #16 posted 08/25/04 2:31am

CalhounSq

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UptownDeb said:

Anyone know why he rocked the bells (Kangols) back in the day? I mean, it's only been recently that we've actually seen him without a cap. Why did we never see him without it for all those years?


Because of that lightbulb dome he got giggle I wonder if his mom had a c-section? hmmm
heart prince I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it prince heart
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Reply #17 posted 08/25/04 6:36am

UptownDeb

CalhounSq said:

UptownDeb said:

Anyone know why he rocked the bells (Kangols) back in the day? I mean, it's only been recently that we've actually seen him without a cap. Why did we never see him without it for all those years?


Because of that lightbulb dome he got giggle I wonder if his mom had a c-section? hmmm


falloff
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Reply #18 posted 08/25/04 7:51am

JANFAN4L

Rhondab said:

everything ya'll listed so far....and I like the new too

love the I shot ya remix....he kills it.


H yeah! Fave line:

"But still ----- wanna instigate sh*t. I'll battle any ----- in the rap game quick. Name the spot, I'll make it hot for you b****s. Female rappers, too. I don't give a f**k, boo."

LOL!
[This message was edited Wed Aug 25 12:04:20 2004 by JANFAN4L]
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Reply #19 posted 08/25/04 11:15am

Shapeshifter

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In no order of preference:

Rock The Bells
Mama Said Knock You Out
The Boomin' System
Jingling Baby
I Can't Live Without My Radio
I'm Bad
I Need Love
Back Seat
Crossroads
Big Ole Butt
I'm That Type Of Guy
Around The Way Girl
Doin' It
Loungin' (Remix)
I Shot Ya (Remix)
Hey Lover
There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently
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Reply #20 posted 08/25/04 11:41am

POOK

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DOWN DOWN

DIGGY DIGGY DOWN DOWN

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