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LL Cool J has enjoyed a career that has spanned three decades and counting and is one of the few rappers turned actors who has sustained his visibility across the genres. Over the weekend, the rapper born James Todd Smith received a Kennedy Center Honor along with other notables, cementing his legacy for years to […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s Kennedy Center Honors recognizing outstanding artists and performers managed to skip the political drama that loomed over it earlier this year — just ask honoree Norman Lear. Ahead of Sunday night’s festivities at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the longtime television producer behind “All in the […]

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  LL Cool J exclusively announces on The Talk that he is launching his own classic hip-hop channel Rock The Bells on SiriusXM radio. “We’re launching a classic hip-hop station on SiriusXM called ‘Rock The Bells Radio,’ he shared. “It’s going to be a place where the OG’s can share their legacy and the new G’s can […]

Russ Parr Morning Show

Actor, husband, dad and hip-hop legend LL Cool J discusses his career and personal life in a candid interview for Oprah’s Master Class. In the interview, he talks about how learning to forgive built the framework of his life. The 49-year-old even opens up about the rocky points in his marriage that ultimately made them stronger. You […]

Willie Moore Jr Show

The hip-hop legend sits down for a candid interview about his life for Oprah's Master Class.

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BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Acknowledging that he has become a “political distraction,” President Donald Trump has decided to skip the festivities surrounding the annual Kennedy Center Honors arts awards later this year, the White House announced Saturday amid the continuing fallout over Trump’s stance on last weekend’s white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Kennedy […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s Kennedy Center honorees will include two singers, a television writer, a dancer – and for the first time, a hip-hop artist. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday announced the recipients of the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors. They are: hip-hop artist LL Cool J, singers Gloria […]

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On the heels of her guest role on Fox’s Empire, Nia Long has booked a series regular spot opposite LL Cool J on Season 9 of CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles. The actress will play Shay Mosely, the team’s new executive assistant director. The character is a former Secret Service agent and an experienced Washington insider. “The character was created […]

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Over the weekend, heartbreaking footage of 90s actress Maia Campbell went viral, prompting her former In The House co-star LL Cool J to post a message on Instagram in search of a contact for the beloved star. https://www.instagram.com/p/BWWlzMmlbxB/?taken-by=theshaderoom LL has since deleted the Instagram message and posted what appears to be an update: https://www.instagram.com/p/BWWqwH4F-yv/?taken-by=llcoolj The […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Late-night host and “Carpool Karaoke” commuter James Corden will be behind the wheel at the Grammy Awards telecast next February. It will be the first turn for Corden presiding over the Grammycast, which for the past five years has had LL Cool J as host. It airs live Feb. 12 from […]

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LL Cool J is stepping behind the camera to produce a new scripted CBS series called “Brotherhood.” The show follows two brothers who find their lives turned upside down when they have to move in together to raise their 10-year-old brother. LL Cool J will serve as executive producer on the project that is written/produced […]