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AndyMcX favorited a video
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From 1987 Album: "Bigger & Deffer".....
LL Cool J's Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/llcoolj
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From 1987 Album: "Bigger & Deffer".....
LL Cool J's Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/llcoolj
Get LL Cool J's Music:
http://www.amazon.com/L.L.-Cool-J/e/B...
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http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...
James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), better known as LL Cool J, is an American rapper and actor. LL Cool J stands for "Ladies Love Cool James." He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love", "Around the Way Girl "and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", and "Mama Said Knock You Out". He has also appeared in several films. LL Cool J is one of a few hip-hop stars of his era to sustain a successful recording career for more than two decades, with more recent singles like "4, 3, 2, 1", "Headsprung" and "Luv U Better". He has released twelve studio albums and a greatest hits compilation so far, with his latest album being 2008's Exit 13, the last for LL's record deal with Def Jam Recordings. He now resides in Manhasset, New York with his wife and four children.
LL spent most of his youth performing in the church choir, participating in the Boy Scouts, and delivering newspapers. At age 16, by using a mixing table purchased by his grandfather at Sears, Smith produced and created demos and sent them to various record companies, including Def Jam Recordings.
Under his new stage name, LL Cool J (Ladies Love Cool James), Def Jam released his first record, the 12" single "I Need a Beat". The single sold over 100,000 copies and helped establish LL as a rapper in the music industry. The success of "I Need a Beat" helped lead to a distribution deal with Def Jam and Columbia Records in 1985. Soon after, LL dropped out of Andrew Jackson High School to record his debut album.
In 1987, he released Bigger and Deffer. The ballad "I Need Love" was one of the first hit pop-rap songs. Also featured on the album was "Go Cut Creator Go," which pays homage to the DJ. The album was met with commercial and critical acclaim going 2x Platinum. The album sold about 2,300,000 albums. In 1998, The Source Magazine named it as one of the top 100 albums ever. At this point LL was on top of the rap world, and was making frequent appearances on television shows and on radio as he was being featured on other Def Jam artists' work.
"I Need Love" was the second single from LL Cool J's second album, Bigger and Deffer. The song is considered the first rap ballad and was released in the fall of 1987. It reached #1 on the R&B/Hip Hop charts and was a well-received single on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, reaching #14, while becoming one of the first rap songs to enjoy mainstream popularity in the UK, reaching #8 in the UK Singles Chart. The single won a Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap - Single in 1987. The song was parodied in 2000 by Brooklyn rapper Necro in his song "I Need Drugs", which alters the lyrics to a narrative of a man's addiction to crack cocaine. The song ranked #13 on the 100 Greatest Rap Songs.
Extended & updated info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ll_cool_j
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AndyMcX favorited a video
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Upon waking up one morning i had the great idea of taking advantage of all the farmers on tf2 in my own special way. i got to work on the map that ...
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Upon waking up one morning i had the great idea of taking advantage of all the farmers on tf2 in my own special way. i got to work on the map that you see in the video and on the days of the scout, and sniper spy class updates, created a fake achievement server with my map, laughing at what i created, and watch it flood with unsuspecting people.
The map does not reflect any of my views, and was made solely to be as offensive as possible.
all sound in the video are ingame, including the music, which is some techno remix of gangstas paradise.
The map was hidden under the guise of achievement_scout and achievement_spysniper
Map download: http://www.mowtendoo.com/achievement_...
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AndyMcX favorited a video
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...and hilarity ensues, thanks to a certain person who hasn't completely mastered the fundamentals of English profanity.
Thanks to:
- |T0x| DarkCarro...
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...and hilarity ensues, thanks to a certain person who hasn't completely mastered the fundamentals of English profanity.
Thanks to:
- |T0x| DarkCarrot.: The star of the show.
- [VDuS] Scar^: For converting the demo into a video before it becomes lost in eternity due to the upcoming Heavy update.
- RIPzombi: For axing me.
- "gagne west": For allowing me to play TF2 on his account, many thanks!
- Mumz, dadz, brother, sister, Gawd, Jesus
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