“This world, as we all know, can be so full of criticism and discrimination and negativity,” Sabrina Carpenter said Sunday at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. “So to get to be part of something, so more often than not, that is something that can bring you light, make you …
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LL Cool and Jazmine Sullivan canceled their appearances at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in solidarity with the city workers who are on strike in Philly. Both the rapper and the Philadelphia-born R&B singer were scheduled to perform at the Wawa Welcome America Festival on Friday, but hours …
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LL Cool J digs into how New York City shaped the creation and evolution of rap in the new trailer for the upcoming docuseries, Hip-Hop Was Born Here. The five-part series will offer a kind of historical and musical tour of the five boroughs as LL Cool J visits the …
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Two years ago, Lil Wayne released a career-spanning compilation, I Am Music. It seems like an impossible task to summarize three decades of music that dates to his febrile debut as one-half of B.G.z in 1995, spans a record-breaking number of entries on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as …
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The Rock The Bells festival is back, and this time they’re hitting New Jersey. The LL Cool J-owned classic rap showcase announced their June 28 Class of 2025 event at Newark’s Prudential Center, with performances from Busta Rhymes, Redman, Eric B. & Rakim, Remy Ma, Too $hort, Scarface, Plies, Boosie, …
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Nearly 25 years after being the first to declare himself the G.O.A.T. (which his dancers referenced with posters of the farm animal), LL Cool J reminded us he’s worthy of that title at the MTV VMAs on Wednesday night. In between classics like “Around the Way Girl” and “Doin’ It,” …
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LL Cool J‘s “Murdergram Deux,” a bass-heavy track off of his latest album The Force, marked the rapper’s first collaboration with Eminem. The rap legends have now teamed up again for the single’s music video, which incorporates LL Cool J’s and Big Daddy Kane‘s iconic album art into the backdrop. …
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Scant months after Q-Tip publicly debated the dubiousness of an “adult-contemporary hip-hop” category on social media comes a completely Tip-produced new album by his Queens neighbor LL Cool J — the 56-year-old rapper-actor’s 14th since his 1984 debut as a teenager. In a year when both Rakim and Masta Ace …
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Two legendary rappers have come together for a song. On Friday, LL Cool J released his collaboration with Eminem, “Murdergram Deux,” ahead of the release of his album The Force, which drops next Friday. “Unapologetic and we’re gonna cause a headache. Me and L about to set it, we about …
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The VMAs are becoming even more legendary. On Aug. 27, MTV announced that Shawn Mendes, Karol G, LL Cool J, and Anitta will perform at theVideo Music Awardson Sept. 11 in New York. Two-time VMAs winner Shawn Mendes will take the stage to perform songs off of his upcoming self-titled …
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