WTF is up with LL?

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I didn't think it was possible for him to sell out any further, but his recent singles have proved me wrong.

― andy, Friday, 31 January 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

um, is it possible to have been a highly paid, world-famous recording artist since your late teens and "sell out"?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 31 January 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I think so. His old records could actually be considered hip hop, not the hip pop crap he does nowadays.

― andy, Friday, 31 January 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I miss his real fucking hardcore tracks like "Around the Way Girl"

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 31 January 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Like "I Need Love," you mean?

― Ben Williams, Friday, 31 January 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

He is that type of guy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Dammit, 'kinda' guy. Memory = shot to hell.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 January 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd argue that his new shit is even whacker than the whack shit he's previously done. That's a pretty amazing accomplishment.

― andy, Friday, 31 January 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, is it 'whack' or 'wack'? I have the eerie suspicion that I might be wack.

― andy, Friday, 31 January 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, like I used to blast "I Need Love" all the fucking time, right, and my parents were all like "Son, we need to talk. This music is offensive and violent, and our generation doesn't understand it," and I was all like "Fuck all y'all, man, this is MY music, and you can't take that away from me. It may be violent and offensive, but so is the world we live in. This shit is REAL, yo, you're just living in a fantasy world, muthafuckaz!"

All joking aside, those new songs are pretty horrible.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 31 January 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

The first one was pretty great, but I'm not feeling the new one with Amerie AT ALL.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 31 January 2003 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

When my superstars begin to talk about their "crunch routine to keep their six pack abs" on the View, I drop 'em.

― maria b (maria b), Friday, 31 January 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I think he looks hot, he always looks hot. I don't know about the song, but that tropical getaway video was fun. But Deliver Us From Eva is the lamest movie title ever! Worse than Courting Courtney!

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned you were right first time with 'type of guy' i'm pretty sure

does anyone have a remix of the 'Illegal Search' track he did - dunno what remixes there are of it but i heard this about 13/14 years ago and it was cool...would like to hear it again

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

type of guy is right. luv u better is fantastic.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone who thinks ll fell off really should listen to that (2000?) canabis diss circulating on that "best of the neptunes" bootleg.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, but since then we've had "G.O.A.T.", which pretty much puts him back where he started.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 31 January 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

'G.O.A.T' is better for Adam F rather than LL himself

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 31 January 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, but his pecs man, whew-hoo.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 31 January 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

he was alright in that shark movie

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 31 January 2003 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

until he jumped it. *ducks*

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 31 January 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it... legal for that one song of his to resemble that one Cam'ron song so much?

― Dan I., Friday, 31 January 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

where have you been?

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 31 January 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Like Rod Stewart, or anybody who can seem like a humble cocksman, I figure this guy will be able to rock a single till the end of time. But I seriously want to send LL's ass to Haagen-Dazs. He's like veiny, scary buff these days. All that Rollerball practicing I guess.

Haven't really heard his new stuff yet. My pal TJ loves the J. Lo collabo. God, she could use the help.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 31 January 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

If he loves wife I think it's ok if he wants to write bullshit love jams if he is tap'n that ass every night. LL was on Def Jam when he was 17, when was he NOT "selling out"?

― Hayden (Hayden), Monday, 3 February 2003 07:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to smack him with a bat for the J.Lo collaboration.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"Around the Way Girl" is one of my favorite songs.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to smack him with a bat for the J.Lo collaboration.

nas is cool though naw?

― the internet (scg), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, the Nas collaboration was a much better song (and they both brought something to it as opposed to this one, which is like a Ja Rule/Ashanti song).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i just thought you were ridiculing j-lo's credibility, soz

― the internet (scg), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

J.Lo's cred did plummet to amazing depths with "Jenny From The Block", but an amazing follow-up could have turned things around. Instead she drops an embarrassing over-processed piece of shit where she's incidental. OOPS.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

luv u better fanastic? gawd. it's almost as bad as cam'ron's hey ma...

― cybele, Monday, 3 February 2003 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

The beat to "Luv U Better" is miles above "Hey Ma".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

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