Early LL Cool J....

One of my favorite scenes from "Crush Groove"! The true star however is LL's side man doing the hand gestures...HILARIOUS!!!

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• LL
• Cool
• Crush
• Groove
• Box
• Radio
• Hip-Hop
• Old
• School

[chrisrap4ever]

80s must have been the greatest years ever.if only i was born about early 70s in new york so as to live hip hop as a youth.

[bmagnetic]

Yes it was bro! Breaking, graffiti, REAL lyrics from REAL emcees, DJ scratching as a true art form...it certainly was the best! I hope that same spirit returns one day because THAT is Hip-Hop!!!

[nimjased10]

MOST PEOPLE DONT kNOW THAT IT Was RICK RUBIN OF DEF JAM THAT CREATED THE RISE OF HIP HOP A JEWISH MAN/WHITE WAS THE FORCE BEHIND THE RISE OF RAP MUSIC!

[bmagnetic]

You can't forget Russell Rush...Russell was already a force to be reckoned with as far as a promoter from the 70's, so his forming Def Jam with Rick was just a natural progression. Simmons with the experience & Ruben with production skills...BOTH with the conceptual skills to MAKE long-term artists. It also shows the power Hip-Hop has to overcome racisim.

[scrapplecheesesteak]

I hear ya! Today's hip-hop is 95% garbage, just my opinion.

[dirtyfighter34]

Every Rapper needs an E Luv, that's what's missing from Modern Hip hop! haha

[xlogold]

thats funny seeing Chip Douglas in this movie, because I still think of him on My Three Sons.

[funkmex]

@kalai131 LMFAO relax man....it's 2011 now and yes it does sound and look kind of corny, but it doesn't mean that i don't like the song. go to an open mic with painted jeans on and a boom box and see what kind of reaction you get.

[kalai131]

to the guy about ll cool j's physique, LOL! LL was never skinny, always muscular, he is bigger now, so that's why you think that.

[kalai131]

true but hip hop was also big in the Latino culture, and I do believe you also that the early 70's hip hop probably was underground and didn't hit the 8 track or boombox until the late 70's and early 80's, and it could also be said that Muhammad Ali was the first "mainstream" person to Rap, as an artist and performer while boxing, his rhymes were heard at a time when rap was not really in the mainstream vocabulary. many mainstream artists i.e. LL Cool J and Rakim say ali was their inspiration!

[iconpoet]

@kalai131 Early Hiphop grew out of the gang culture of late 60s and early 70s South Bronx. Kool Herc, a Jamaican, was the one who laid the foundations of the sound of Hiphop and Afrika Bambatta laid the foundations of the culture. True, Blondie did record "Rapture" and she was in the movie Wild Style...but Hiphop was huge in the black community before she did that. Do NOT argue Hiphop with me because I am a historian.

[kalai131]

@4life1971 also I will add that LL Cool J is of only 10 other rappers that are on that list, anybody who thinks they can be rich or a legend overnight, better stop dreaming. there were literally thousands if not hundreds of thousands of rappers who rapped, but only 10 MADE IT BIG AND STAYED THERE TODAY! Rap industry is very harsh, and only the elite can continue to stay in it.

[kalai131]

@4life1971 he is on the few list of hip hop legends that can still sell platinum records and sold out arenas/concerts today!

hip hop is a brutal industry, far more so than even hollywood, in hollywood you have a 5 yr mark to make it, if you aren't big by then, you'll be in b-movies at best. in hip hop its only 3 yrs, if you aren't famous or a legend by then, you'll be swept under the rug, and working in home depot part time, just that unforgiving! anybody in the rap industry can tell you that.

[kalai131]

@funkmex get your ears checked asap. this never sounded corny, not even back then, it wouldn't have got triple platinum otherwise. I tell you what, why don't you release a rap album independently or from a record company and sell platinum if you DARE! or better yet rap live on stage if you can dodge the tomatoes and eggs thrown at you, if you talk the stuff you better be able to back the stuff up, anyone can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?

[kalai131]

@iconpoet nay, in a way nimjased10 is VERY RIGHT! hip hop was a collaboration of blacks, latinos, whites, and asians hard work put together, the voco recorder that Roger/Zapp uses came from japan to do the autotune stuff, one of the first rap songs ever was RAPTURE sang and rapped by Blondie, a white lady with blond hair! the g-funk beats came from euro pop, which then renamed with rapping in the States to become hip hop, rap wasn't made only by African Americans!