LL Cool J I'm Bad Award Show Performance 1988

[naywahn]

3:09 "What it do?!"... in 1988! WTF?!

[shyshotcaller27]

Classic! Peep the troop suit! Lol. Throw back z

[vivianmoore7]

Can't believe the audience is just sitting like stiff statues. I'm from the ol school, but I must say the audiences of today at the American Music Awards know how to show much love for performing music artist.

[TheCuttymane]

Ladies Love Cool James. You see em geeked up.

[jaedub74]

OH MY GOD IS THIS THE SOUL TRAIN AWARDS PERFORMANCE?

[spmillz]

The audience is mad dead but it just shows how big hip-hop is to go from this dead show to be coveted at almost all award shows.

[Solar703]

I remember watchin dis live in my livin room wit my brotha Affion, goin nuts!!!!! At dat time dis was very rare 2 c rap on an awards show and TV!!!!!!! It meant da world 2 us!!!!!!!!!!

[joab327]

@Solar703 Me too, I watched this when it aired, and nearly lost my mind. Lol

[DeuceDonDadda]

This song had sum #ClassicLines "Im like Jaws, my hat is like a sharks fin", "Im notorious i crush you like a Jelly Bean" & "Forget Oreo's Eat Cool J cookies IM BAD!" Woooo! & i aint never seen a day of the 80's (I was born in 1990)

[NiKKiBSEXCii]

I wasn't even born yet.

But If I was.

& I attended this,

I'd be mad hyped :D

[bigmemphis]

Troop Clothing

[Felixdidit]

This crowd had no idea what hip hop was back then...They knew about Rock, Pop, and R&B...Hip Hop was over they head...They sitting there looking stupid...We Worldwide Now!

[stevieplez2]

That's how it was bacxk in the day.... hip hop wasn't main stream and award shows didn't crowd participate, that was some new shit

[VideoVault08]

WHITE PEOPLE WERE HELLA SCARED

[AnEliteMan]

Awesome

[BADSTINGTV]

WELL YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER..(WELL THOSE OF US WHO OLDER LOL) THAT HIP HOP WAS STILL FIGHTING FOR ITS PLACE IN VENUES LIKE THAT AND FOR TELEVISION SPOTS. I BET MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM DIDNT EVEN WANT THAT PERFORMANCE TO HAPPEN.

[smalltymeprod]

Nice classic. "Farmers BLVD!"

[mRr3gmasterz]

The greatest showing of LL,

[ThoughtCriminal4]

one of the dopest rhymes in history. pure classic. i remember watching this when i was 8. My mom could not believe i knew the lyrics.

[ilovefrankandbeans]

you gotta give ll props, been doin it since the 80's

[nandrade26]

shitty audience maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

[Dhamestic]

LL one of the greatest!

[TheEman67]

ll is one of the greatest mc's of all time the 1st real raw in your face rapper.

[ShashiFSSAficionada]

SHEEZ. I wish I was alive for this. LMBO

[nevawrong]

@ShashiFSSAficionada

at least youre alive to see Soulja Boy !! : )

[kingsnbabylon]

This is when rap was making a big entrance in the main stream. So the crowd was probably more amazed than bored. They didn't know hip-hop had so much power, energy and creativity. It was new to them.

[escapeee]

This just shows how much things have changed since then. The crowd is hyped like we are today but they restrain themselves from being crazy like how we are now. The music however WILL withstand the test of time.

[omeganaphtali]

@escapeee Actually it didn't stand the test of time. Just because clowns now have jewerly and a mic and their mouth doesn't make it the same. Whats more you can actually hear his words and listen, unlike these clowns now who rap with a mouthfull of gummy bears and autotune

[djwilliams310]

Lol the crowd. now in days people r hyper. its like dude chill y r u so excited?

[duftyboxing]

crowd needed to get up off they ass! come on.

[88banjo]

the crowd was boring

[keepingitreal15]

Poor quality :'( I know the video is old but dang.

[tyshanna1]

dam did he do a bruce lee kick...lol

and what a boring dead ass crowd...

[rodney1b]

@tyshanna1 yeah I know, this is back before Hip Hop was accepted by most whites, but it was picking up alot of momentun in the streets all over though!

[noclone1]

Say what u like about LL but he was one of the 1st hard hitting mc's in the biz + hard beats! I eliminate punks cut em up in chunks

[westside159]

classic shit lol 

[loupremo]

when he said "say ho ho ho" i bet there was some Italian guy in the audience like "who does this moolie think he is? Santa Claus??"

[R9G5V6]

I'M BAD!

[funlovingreek2008]

I hate rappers who rap to their own muisc, its like you hear an echo lol

[pagesix1536]

Is anyone even cheering? Looks like a bunch of asleep people sitting on their asses in the audience.

[ToneProsPlaylist]

I can't remember the Troop brand, did he just do the Karate Kid kick? Only in the 80's lol gotta love it

[Mehrunissah93]

This song grew on me. I love his body; I'm sure it added to his success during his early years.

[SoldierTS]

LL is doing great with that dumb ass audience

[SD1Chargers]

Those white folks had eyes like saucer...like what the fuck is that!

LMAO...the white chicks were probably going crazy over L's 6 pack

1988...NIggaz With Attitudes were on the horizon!

[LGKids]

This crowd might now been into, but at home, I'm sure you all where losing your mind and ready to go to school the next day and say "did you see LL clown last night"! Can't tell you how many times I've had this album, tape, and cd! Peace to all those that know, knew, and continue to love old school!

[10akee]

Great rap performance but a lame crowd.

[rodney1b]

they didn't understand or wanted anything to do with Hip Hop back then but look at em now"

[jabsflow]

I give Dick Clark props for showcasing rap/hip hop at the AMAs! They wouldn't do this at the Grammys.

[blaqice88]

@jabsflow No way!

[vytildie]

LISTEN TO THE LYRICS! The BEST of this form! The rhyme, the arrangement!

[jwh1999]

People in the crowd wasn't feelin rap at the time, remember a lot of the white people said back then that rap wasn't gonna last, and rap gave jobs to people who didn't even like it haha!!

[chessdrummer]

@jwh1999 Nah... rap was hot in 1988... at its creative height. Just got too many prim and proper folks in the crowd. It got more commercial in the 90s, but went downhill. I'd rather it be exculsive within a defined segment than to be more popular with the crap they're putting out now.

[VariableUnit]

Damn, lol, this crowd won't say shit. It's like everyone is just waiting for him to just get off... lol. What was that double jumping front kick all about.. lol..Old School looks funny in retrospect sometimes.. But it was the best

[dimpleslovesya]

THAT IS MY BABY DADDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OMG

[assmuncher1984]

Troop Clothing, old school. That went outta business but I hear Nelly bought it and runs it now. Troop used to be a big thing in New York back then.

[getyoasshome]

@assmuncher1984 it was big on the west coast too...i remember my older cousins had the snake skin troops with the jackets...dope style.

[jamoes95ta]

@assmuncher1984 Yep It was the thing here on the west coast too for a few years when I was in jr. high school. I remember ALL the black kids either sportin it or wantin it!

[assmuncher1984]

@jamoes95ta - Thanks for the great info. What years were you in middle school? I'm also from the West Coast.(California)

[jamoes95ta]

@assmuncher1984 85-87 some of the best school years besides of course high school.

[BigBlackRod]

@assmuncher1984 I had a black Troop sweatsuit back in '88; I remember the year cause that was the year I lived in Gainesville, Florida...PEACE.

[TheInformalstyle]

@BigBlackRod I used to have the same white Troop tracksuit Stetsasonic was wearing on the cover of 'Talkin' all that jazz'. I was so proud of it. Cost me like 2 weeks' wages. Troop was the pinnacle back then.

[jacb630]

@assmuncher1984 Man, I remember when everybody was rockin' Troop clothing. I couldn't wait 2 get some Troop. Unfortunately, I my mom couldn't afford it at that time. Peace 2 old skool Hip Hop.

[jaedub74]

@assmuncher1984 YEAH, I'VE SEEN HIM ROCK IT TOO :)



[1rubyd]

That crowd wasn't ready for LL! "Even when I'm bragging, I'm being sincere."

[lwj24]

" Not bitter or mad, just proving I'm bad, you want a hit give me an hour plus a pen and a pad.".......... Damn Iove that ryhme.

[truaswad]

Forget Oreo eat cool j cookies I'm baaaaad!!!

[britcorefan1]

You can buy that Troop jacket on DRjays. I still love Troop to this day

[angelabrandy]

Man this audience is stale like day ole bread. lol

[londontopboy]

@angelabrandy  what do you expext their white but i bet if it was eminem there would be applauding

[getyoasshome]

@londontopboy naw hip hop was still new to the average middle of american person. it was still owned by the streets at this time. there was white rappers back then too.

[londontopboy]

@getyoasshome yeah i know but you still can't take the fact that america will always be white and black people will always be lower than white people, do you know black young kids are voiceless right now no one cares about them

[getyoasshome]

@londontopboy voiceless? who told you that? and america is not white anymore and that type of thinking is a psychology thing. if you think that way then you will live that way....and you know what black KIDS are voiceless because they are KIDS...their parents need to step up. the black community has some issues and the #1 issue is identity. they are worried too much about bullshit. where i live its 70% white (portland oregon) and black people here are more concerned with BET than NPR.

[jamoes95ta]

@angelabrandy Yeah it was! You also have to remember that HIp Hop hasn't gone mainstream at this point in time either, and was looked at as the "red stepchild" of music by the majority of white America.... How things has changed. I remember watching this live and how incredible it felt to see one of my favorite rappers on a nationwide program!

[Seabeats]

@angelabrandy Really though

[miamivicepastels83]

@angelabrandy u aint lyin

[roboshuffle]

Loving the Troop gear... LL will crush you like a jellybean!

[LaTigraVioleta]

Love this :)

[erickrassle]

Real fresh yo. Top Dog type Post. NICE!

[muke187]

great post