LL Cool J

With 20 years in the game, LL Cool J has achieved a longevity that's all but unheard of in hip-hop. On his eleventh album, he returns with another batch of instantly likeable club anthems, party jams and romance raps. Timbaland produces nearly every track, while R. Kelly guests on "I'm About to Get Her."

When a rapper's cd booklet includes plugs for his upcoming movies instead of for his other
albums, you have every right to suspect that he has put his music career on the back
turntable. But on the eleventh record of his amazingly consistent twenty-year career, LL
Cool J has as much swaggering presence as ever. His greatest subject matter is himself: "No
need for ghostwriters/Every year I get tighter." And if none of the tracks here h... More >