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Home Ll Cool J. I Make My Own Rules. Cool J,Karen Hunter. LL Cool J by Z. Cool J. Dec 03, K rated it it was amazing Shelves: non-fiction , black-auther , hip-hop. Mar 23, Terry rated it it was amazing. Nov 01, TimoshaUbiica added it. Get up. Jun 21, Anna rated it it was ok. We need a new biography from this man. Aug 06, Calvin Kenley rated it did not like it. I got this as kind of a gag gift from my brother in law for Christmas.
Seriously, this book is pretty awful, but I had to get through it. LL was kind of responsible for my initial interest in the world of Hip Hop.
We never had cable growing up, and some of our family friends, the Morgans, occasionally would give my sister's tapes that had 6 hrs of the Disney Channel or MTV recorded over them. We all got to know those video cassettes pretty well. Most of the stuff on there was Paula Abdul or what I got this as kind of a gag gift from my brother in law for Christmas.
Most of the stuff on there was Paula Abdul or whatever, but I remember one tape specifically because it was pretty much my first actual encounter with Hip Hop. I may have heard Vanilla Ice before that or something, and I probably liked it, but this was on another plane to me.
Honestly I didn't understand everything he was saying, but the braggadocio was so intense that you HAD to believe that he actually believed the things he was saying about himself. That was the only song I ever knew until about 8th grade when I kid in my class had Walking with a Panther in his Disc man. This was a year before downloading and burning CD's became common in most households, so I couldn't get a copy of it from him, but I borrowed it and listened to it over and over again on the stereo in my room with my cheap headphones plugged in.
It was mostly something about how weird he was. Nobody else was gonna rap the line "The pudding is delicious", except for him. No matter how much people jump around on stage, they won't look as crazy as LL used to when he was some excited eager kid.
The no shirt thing works for Lil Wayne, but LL perfected it. I make a pretty distict homage to his video for I'm that type of guy in my Peach Fuzz video. Anyway, the book kind of spoils all that, it was written in , which is right at the point where I lose interest in his whole career.
Of all three of these books, this one is the most painful to read. The most interesting moments are about his turbulent relationship with his father. His dad once got so angry he came to the house with a shotgun and ended up shooting his mother and grandfather.
They recovered, but his father moved to California and changed his name and was never prosecuted. Later in life LL hired his father to come be his manager, and as you might have guessed, that didn't turn out so hot either. For all the violence he experienced as a child it's actually surprising that his lyrics are some of the least violent in mainstream rap. Tupac Shakur Biography.
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