LL provided a blueprint for how to push through as an artist and come out stronger in a genre that can be notoriously fickle.Earlier this week, he spoke with CBS Mornings. Up until the success of Mama Said., it could be argued that very few rappers had successfully bounced back from a significant backlash. Nobody's career voyage is without some rocky waters, and on his fourth album, the icon from Farmers proved that true talent doesn't fold under pressure. With Mama Said Knock You Out, LL COOL J affirmed that longevity in Hip-Hop meant navigating critics and haters. So the 'Microphone Mafia Anthem' was it." Every producer always had that track that all the MC's want to get on. Before that, I recorded it with another group I had called Menace to Society. "It was the West Coast’s version of the Juice Crew’s 'The Symphony.' Threat was the West Coast Rakim. "I originally recorded the 'Mama Said Knock You Out' beat in 1989 with my group Microphone Mafia (Threat, K-Born, and Nefertiti)," explained Bobcat in 2020. When I heard it I was like, "'Yo, let's get it!' We were running around in the condo." "Bob was always super creative, super talented, and was always about it. "I just thought it was crazy," LL recalled in 2020. I would never think that people still recognize me as the girl from that video." So hearing that song title, I was like 'Is he talking about me?' We're the girls sitting on the benches, watching the basketball. "Because I am that chick who grew up with jams in the park, rocking my Lee jeans, my bamboo earrings, my name chain East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, the Jamaica Mart off Jamaica Avenue – I am that girl. "The song hits home," Big Lez shared in 2020. The Marley-produced hit "Around The Way Girl" was a chance for the rap star to shout-out the neighborhood girls he'd grown up with in Queens and who still made up a huge chunk of his audience.
That connectivity may have been ignored by critics and audiences when it came to Walking With A Panther, but on Mama Said Knock You Out, LL's spirit and sound was in sync with the streets. I was just running with the hustlers and hanging out and vibing." And that was just how a young Black man displayed his success. When in reality, I was just living out my hustler dreams and that's just what I always wanted to do. They looked at the diamonds, jewelry, and cars as a sign of me being disconnected. "I felt people were mischaracterizing the album cover and the vibe, and didn't understand that we were celebrating success. "I definitely had a chip on my shoulder and I was disappointed about the critical response," LL COOL J said of the reception to. He was being branded a shallow playboy at the height of "Fight the Power" and "Self Destruction." When he came to see me at the radio station, I was like, 'Yo bro, there’s a song that I like on your album that I know I can fix.' And he's, 'What song is that?' I was like, 'Yo, the one that says, 'Running over n****s like a redneck trucker.' He said, "Oh, that's 'Jingling Baby.'” So I always feel like this…it’s never over because you can always remix and fix songs on an album. I knew the album wasn't really what the streets wanted. I had a show called 'In Control' and I asked Brian - who was his manager at the time - to bring him up to the radio station so we could interview him about the album. "I never thought I would have been able to work with him," Marley told RTB in 2020. Nonetheless, it was the reception to LL's third album, 1989's Walking With A Panther, that brought him into Marley's circle. But LL COOL J was Def Jam's megastar, and Cold Chillin' was the competition.
That collective of soon-to-be-legendary emcees included Biz Markie, Roxanne Shante, MC Shan, Craig G and Kool G Rap-all among the elite rappers in Hip-Hop. The superproducer had helmed hits by everyone from Heavy D & The Boyz to Big Daddy Kane having launched the ladder in orbit via Marley's famed Juice Crew. Marley Marl was curious about working with LL COOL J.
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