I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.
I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.
LL is one of the few hip-hop artist to have sold over 20 million albums in his career.
LL co-hosted the 2001 American Music Awards.
LL's albums' "Radio", "Walking with A Panther", "All World: Greatest Hits" and "Phenomenon" all went platinum.
LL is usually seen wearing a Kangol hat.
He collaborated on two songs with J-Lo. The first one, titled "All I Have", appears on J-Lo's album "This is me...Then". The second one, titled "Control Myself", appears on LL's album "Todd Smith".
LL co-starred in the movie "S.W.A.T." along with Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell and Michelle Rodriguez.
LL is 6'1" tall.
LL Cool J: Keeping it real ain't about carrying a gun or smoking blunts. It's about being true to yourself and those around you.
LL found that hip-hop music and rapping were ways of escaping his problems with his family growing up.
He has previously worked in fashion, having been behind the scenes for T.R.O.O.P., a nonfashion, insider hip-hop line in the late-Eighties.
In 1996 LL helped to launch a clothing line named "FUBU"; the name is an acronym for "For Us, By Us", meaning that the clothes were made for and marketed to black people by a black person.
He's won 2 MTV Video Music Awards, in 1990 the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video for "Mama Said Knock You Out" and in 1997 the MTV Video Music Vanguard Award for "career achievement".
ABC hired him for its pregame music during their coverage of the 2003 NBA Finals.
LL was turned down from Tommy Boy Records and Sugar Hill Records before being signed with Def Jam Records.
LL was originally in the film "Rugrats Go Wild!" as the voice of a Piki doll, but his character was cut from the film.
LL has written songs for other rappers like Run-D.M.C. including their hit "Can You Rock it Like This".
He has had rivalries with MC Shan, Ice-T, MC Hammer, Kool Moe Dee, Wyclef Jean, Jamie Foxx & Canibus. He has also shown his disapproval of Mike Tyson and Naomi Campbell in his songs, "The Ripper Strikes Back" and "Rasta Imposta".
He was a paperboy before his rap career took off.
He was named the 10th greatest hip-hop MC of all time by MTV.
Has four children; Najee (b. 1989), Italia (b. 1990), Samaria (b. 1995), and Nina Simone (b. 2000).
LL Cool J is the author of two books with the children-oriented book called "And The Winner Is..." and his autobiography co-written with Karen Hunter, "I Make My Own Rules" released in 1997.
LL has recorded twelve albums, "Radio" (1985), "Bigger and Deffer" (1987), "Walking With a Panther" (1989), "Mama Said Knock You Out" (1990), "14 Shots to the Dome" (1993), "Mr. Smith" (1995), "All World" (1996), "Phenomenon" (1997), "G.O.A.T." (2000), "10" (2002), "The DEFinition" (2004) and his most recent "Todd Smith" (2006).
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