LL Cool J Net Worth

LL Cool J's Quotes

• Keeping it real ain't about carrying a gun or smoking blunts. It's about being true to yourself and those around you.
• "Rollerball sucked!" - discussing one of his movies on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
• Am I James Todd Smith now or LL Cool J? Pick a name baby. Pick a name and ride with it. I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies. You know when you do 25 or 30 movies and people are still asking you 'how does it feel making the transition?' you know you're not communicating correctly. So I just put the James Todd Smith thing there to let people know I was serious. It's not like I made it Lawrence Cool J or something!.
• Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits. I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained. My acting coach is from the Stanislavsky school. It's real - I act.
• I'm happy to be black. I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that. I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give. As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours. And I think eventually, if I just stay on this path, we'll get there.

Interesting Facts about LL Cool J

1. Almost always wears a hat, and wears one of his pant legs rolled up.
2. LL Cool J stands for "Ladies Love Cool James."
3. Regarded as one of the most succesful rap artists of all time.
4. Separated from girlfriend Simone Smith sometime after the birth of their second child.
5. Hosted The 28th Annual American Music Awards (2001) with Britney Spears. [2001]
6. Has four children (one boy and three girls): Najee (b. 1989), Italia (b. 1990), Samaria (b. 1995), and Nina Simone (b. 2000).
7. The only job he had besides being an entertainer was that he was briefly a paper boy.
8. Appeared with Rollerball (2002) co-star Chris Klein on World Wrestling Federation programming in early 2002 to promote the film. They appeared with APA members Ron Simmons (aka Faarooq) and John Layfield (aka Bradshaw), both of whom appear in the film along with a number of other WWF Superstars.
9. He has been on Def Jam Records longer than any other artists from its start in 1985 to the present.
10. Wrote and performed the first ever rap love song "I Need Love" in 1985.
11. In his personal life, he goes by the name Todd.
12. Homaged/satirized in Sonic Youth's song "Kool Thing" (from the 1990 album "Goo").
13. Ranked #5 on VH1's 50 Greatest Hip Hop Artists.
14. Ranked #32 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.
15. On his second album "B.A.D." (Bigger And Deffer), his single "I'm Bad" sampled the main theme of the 70's TV show S.W.A.T. (1975) and, years later, he co-starred in the movie adaptation of that show.
16. He has played the same character (Sam Hanna) in three different series: NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009) and Hawaii Five-0 (2010).
17. In 2012, he stated that no one "should assume that I'm a Democrat a Republican]. I'm an Independent, you know?".
18. On his second album "B.A.D." (Bigger And Deffer), his single "I'm Bad" sampled the main theme of the 70's TV show "S.W.A.T." and years later he would co-star in the movie adaptation of that show. (And in a few movie trailers for "S.W.A.T.", actually mimicking that same theme music).
19. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 21, 2016.
20. When Anne Hathaway was a guest on Lip Sync Battle (2015), she said she wanted to hug Cool J.