Its no secret that over the past few years he has had problems with Def Jam, but now he tells you how he feels about the former President of Def Jam, Jay-Z.
In an interview with Sister to Sister magazine LL says "It's been a great business for him, but it has been not so great for a lot of the artists that were there (at Def Jam) previously."
He continues, "We have to be very careful when we talk about it because, for some strange reason, his fans... start thinking, like, you're hating when you're just being real."
In other news…
LL's final album on Def Jam, Exit 13, doesn't have a set release date yet but it features appearances from the likes of Method Man, Lil' Kim & Jim Jones.
COMMENTS
what he's sayin is true...and on another note ID like to see LL get the seat for president of def jam he def deserves it
I ain't gon hate on LL for that. He wasn't saying anything disrespectful. He kept it 100. I personally wanna see homie drop a classic one last time and go out like Jordan in 98' or something. He definitely deserves something like that.
LL= Living Legend Cool J
i think hell have a good album, and he should get president cause jay dont even want that shit so why not give it to someone that does
I gotta diasgree here for a moment with yall...
LL hasn't been happy with DefJam for a minute now...even since BEFORE Jay-Z was president. His hatred stemmed from the fact that his relevance in the Hip Hop world isn't a third of what it used to be back in the day.
The reason for that is simple...he spent 90% of his career catering to women instead of us real hip hop heads. I mean shit look at his name: LADIES LOVE COOL J!
On top of that... look who he's talking to during that interview...fuckin' SISTER to SISTER (ladies again)!
Had he been talking to XXL or The Source or any magazine read mainly by MEN and hip hop heads...
He would've been talking the same way he was in all of his prior interviews: RECKLESS AS SHIT!
In regards to yall saying he should be DefJam president...
It'll never happen!
He himself wouldn't take the position because he wouldn't be able to handle all of the "unhappy artists" that have been...are on now...and will be there forever...as long as the label exists!
Side note: Didn't this muthafucka hook up with 50 anyways?
~Be Eazy!
Wiz, you stay on point......
I also think LL couldn't be president because he's one of those cats that love the spotlight. He needs to be that nigga who everyone can see and hear. No fuckin way he could be behind the scenes.
Jay is a proven businessman, therefore his credentials going into the job as president of DefJam are valid. LL, is a performer, and former FuBu spokesperson, no where in his resume qualifies him for that position. Jay knows how to make money, which is the bottom line for a company. DefJam had alot of success under him, some of the artisits didn't, but that can't be lamed on him, you have to look at the demand. Free and Ghost both put out excellent albums but, there aren't enough consumers who want to buy that sort of music anymore. They are looking for something else. Same goes for most of those disgruntled artists, LL, Budden, Meth, Redman, Beans...the list goes on and on. I don't care who heads the label, they won't be succesful nowadays unless they provide the product consumers want. NeYo, Jeezy, Rihanna, Luda, Kanye, and several other artisits were succesful under Jay's reign. All platinum selling artists during a period in which sales are on the decline. Not bad.
Really Didn't Say Much Of Nuthin But, I Can Understand Cuz J More Than Likely Dominates Half His Fan Base If Not More. So Good Strategy On Watchin Wut He Says. It Might Pay Off For His Next Albums Sake. SCREAM AT ME,1..
I Miss Tha Old LL , U know tha old 4,3,2,1 Dayz.
this nigga is still mad at jigga
"what you want me to do/ am sorry"...looool
WOW. i mean we knew there was problems but damn. LL got some truth to his word tho....He continues, "We have to be very careful when we talk about it because, for some strange reason, his fans... start thinking, like, you're hating when you're just being real." and that goes for anybody's favorite rapper when someone bad mouths them......
Dats exactly what niggas do on Defsounds! Say somethin bad about there fav rapper and they say u a hater when U just keepin it real!
you gotta respect LL on some hip-hop shit. he been around forever and with I Need Love, he changed shit. He's alot a niggas, and your favorite rapper's favorite rapper.....
youre bout to get super trashed for that one lol
^^^Are u serious????
what da fuck
LOL@ SUPER TRASHED
gethip313 funny as hell!
I hope ya kno dat he jus playn around
^ Da Hell??? Lol , Wha???
how the hell lil wayne name always find away to be on another topic???????? please somebody answere this for me. Licks Lips Cool J is making a smart move i feel they should gave him the president seat because he the only nigga from the 80's thats still bring defjam good money. he brought them 6 double platnuim and 4 gold albums. he deserve it
Phyisically LL Cool J could whup Hov. Hov would murk him lyrically
on LLs best day would kill jayz lyrically
Where are tou from ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ N.O. I knew you waz from down south talkin like that.
dj kronik smokin some oo wee!!!!, ll could never fuck with hov, never ever ever ever ever!!!!!
Nigga, and I rarely use this word, LL COULDN'T even deal with Cannabis, let alone Jay.
And I'm one to rarely defend Jay, just like when I told the WHOLE DEFSOUNDS he WOULDN'T win that bid for the arena, and he didn't. Told y'all all he was only "hood" rich, not "corporate" rich, but no one was hearin' it. That is, of course, 'til he lost.
I know you my Nicca, but damn That LL vs Canibus battle was hot. And LL put his work in,…trust me B, pls pick up G.O.A.T track 2, track 3,…what. And can’t forget the Flex joint where he claimed to have spent Canibus budget money with Wyclef ha ha ha,…LL have bodied a lot of cats ICE T, COOL MOE D, Young MC etc,…c’mon duke LL on his A game is a problem trust me. He can eat MC’s for real. Man I guess we have a different opinion today..WOW that rarely happens But one line that Canibus landed that stands today is “..99% of your fan wear hight hills” lol.
Come on Matic:
I hate LL! And I would rather listen to a cannabis mixtape than listen to LL's greatest hits. But he spanked da shit out of Cannabis in dat battle.
He spanked him! Thats one of the few things dat I even give LL credit for
he just mad that he got fucced with his contract bacc in tha 80s he's still under the rape act. you gotta understand how many different presidents he's been under since signing to def jam. this is probably the only rapper who doesn't have his own record label. this niggas carear iz ova as an artist. he iz mad that hov came up in a short period of time and passed him fuccin ran laps around him. bottom line: L.L. iz pussy so he should shut tha fucc up
damn nigga the first three words of the article says
Hip Hop legend...... i'm just saying.......
those words ain't there for no reason..... wtf???
^^ True he's a hiphop legend but his time is up now. He been in the game for a long while now that its time for someone new to get their shine. Im not hatin on dude but he's really no longer the same hungry m.c. when he first came out. He still got skill, but he's just not that appealing to dudes now.
fuck dat fagget nigga
I liked the tracks he did with g-unit..the song called bump this feat...hot rod, banks and fif and the other song ith lil scrappy "what yo hood like..I know was helping produce that album before jay pushed it back
jay who?
here is the truth.
most of his fans have gotten older,he has gotten older and his fan base is getting smaller/
is he a legend hell fuck yes ,but is it jay-z fault that his shit aint selling no
.he hasnt had alot of good shit from his last album no 1 can name some hits he has had in the last 1or2 years---AND THATS WHAT YOU NEED TO SELL NOW A DAYS.
HITS==SELLS/MONEY
props to ll, livin legend and all that
1 ll can't fuck with hov lyrically
2 as big and brolic as he is, yeah he might could whip jay ass, but jay been a boss, he could get ll touched all type of ways, fuck... he could get 50 touched- p.s fuck g-unit
back to l, that nigga problen is he got stale, he stopped re-inventing his self. that nigga got so big back in day, that he stopped tryin- he's just tryin to sell records off his legend status. but it's amazing that status don't drop even after the last few bullshit albums he put out.
I CAN'T WAIT SEE WHAT THAT NIGGA EXCUSE WOULD BE FOR FLOPPIN NOW THAT JAY GONE
LL is a pioneer in hip hop, truth be told, even more of a legend than Jay-Z...if Russell was still in charge he'd give it to LL, cuz he know he deserve it. Learn it.
ReDef.
Why he aint give it to him 10 years ago ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ cuz L.L. is a worker bee not a boss
LL flopped because Jay didn't promote the artist right over at Def jam why do you'll think the Beanz and Peedi had problems with jay for a little bit it ain't like LL lying only rapper selling on Def Jam is Rick Ross and that nigga wack but both LL and Jay are legends in the game
Real talk you can’t hate on LL, son been putting it down. Just 3 weeks ago I went to an exchange CD store picked up “14 shots to the Dome” & “the G.O.A.T” put that shit on my Ipod & been banngin to joints on there ever since. Lyrically he’s nice & he doesn’t get his respect due. I mean duke went hard w/ P on that Havoc Beat on G.O.A.T.
Will all that said, lets face it LL’s last album was pure Gar-Ba-ge,…straight BaSuRa. I mean That J-Lo song was a disater, c’mon B, we all fux with 80’s theme joints but that song wouldn’t have banged in the 80’s,…LL was rapping like some RnB nigga,…shit was mad disappointing. So we cleary can’t blame Jay & Def Jam for this album. Now if RedMan, Beans & Freeway said this, hell yeah I blame Def Jam,…none of these artist combine had enough attention that LL get for his trash CD, But all droped hot albums, Redman’s especially, shit was fire from the intro/outtro to the skits. So he needs to be blaming people not LL
The 2 cats need to make a song together, stop all that beefing shit. Both are legends in there own. LL Cool J has been out for ever and Jay Z not as long but is diffently a big name in hip hop. I think just maybe LL is a little jealous of Jay-Z success beacause LL has been out for mad long and made Def Jam a lot of cake and then Jay-Z slides on in and gets the president job and now is his boss. That's how life is LL. Just say fuck it and make a we are the world joint together! (ha ha)
Man DefJam was ass with Jay running it. The only artists that even remotely sold were himself, Nas, Fabolous (allegedly went platinum), Kanye, Rihanna, and Ne-Yo, and Amy, if you want to count her "Island" affiliations. And, they created a buzz for Chrisette. Other than that, pretty much every other artist was pissed.
RECENT DEFJAM FLOPS UNDER JAY:
Beanie Sigel
Bobby Valentino
Fabolous
Freeway
Ghostface Killah - 2007 Rap Album of the Year
Redman
The Roots
Method Man
The-Dream
and not to mention all the albums that dropped that we don't even know about... and be like, "I ain't even know so and so dropped an album last year."
naa fuck all dem niggaz dis weakass hoeass nigga(hov) dropped buddens. He's either scared of da nigga or dat nigga hov is def. dis nigga buddens nicer den rick ross or any of dem otha niggaz you mentioned and he got da shaft. Hov don lost touch wit da streets i mean real talk da nigga been a millionaire for like 15 years. his ass need to move on he remind me of ali in 81 sad shit
All i'm getting out of this is that the already established artists are blaming jay for their dwindling sales when they weren't selling way before jay got his seat. Now don't get me wrong, Jay does deserve some of the blame, but not all of it. When LL could've been trying to remain relevant in music, he was making movies and writing workout books. When Meth and Redman could've been making that Blackout 2, they were doing movies and sitcoms. It's like Hov became president, and everybody thought they was entitled to platinum plaques. If a nigga was sellin' before Hov, what makes them think they was gonna sell after Hov. In terms of Beans, he was never a platinum artist, he was gold at the most. So for him to be considered a flop for his last album going gold now that Hov is president is ridiculous. The same goes for the Roots. They never sold a lot, so if they doing the same numbers now, that they did then, does that count as a failure? The artists that came in under Jay(Jeezy, Rick Ross, Rihanna, Ne-Yo) all did their thing under him the first time around, and the second they was on they own, and they still did good. And what about Ludacris?? Not only did he come onto Def Jam before Hov was president, but even after that, he not only went platinum, but he won a grammy. So to LL, stop bitchin. You may be a legend, but don't put all the blame on Hov, u helped in your own musical downfall
This is actually a hot/well thought out comment. I agree with most of it. Even so, DefJam did little to promote most of the flopping artists. If not for DefSounds, I wouldn't have known Red's album was dropping last year, for example.
I agree with the logic, especially considering the state of the business artist need to put their share of work into the project, they can just do the music & leave the promotions to the Label alone. And another think that Killz me, is how all these artist say they hustlers & know how to triple they gwap, but when shit like this pop off, where all the money at now? I mean y’all have money or what? Shiiit Shoot your own low budget video send it to BET or MTV or put that shit on youtube at least. I mean Damn.
But good point, Stay up
^^^^On point my nigga on point....
Charismatic^^^ you speak truth like no other.
I came in my office expecting lame ass commentary as usual but your shit has straight concrete detail
I'm having one of my "DefSounds" days... They've got 5 new good topics today and I'm on a roll, lol. Keepin' me busy while @ work! (lol, gotta LOVE black people!!)
R Bellz that's a twist be true as well from a different point of perception
I'm still waiting on that track from his album.
I know it's gonna be hott!!!
"The 5 Boroughs Are Back" feat. Jim Jone, Method Man, Lil' Kim, & KRS-One!
Good job uniting & repping New York LL!
IT SORT OF SOUNDS LIKE COOL J SAYING THAT J DID SOME FUCKED SHIT IN HIS TENURE.
Yeah Jay...kinda bummed it out at Def Jam. Wether your a fan or not you can see it.
Dude Jay dosent walk people into a Best Buy and tell them what to listen to. People will buy whatever they feel like spending thier money on. All those flops under Jays watch wern't all his fault. Seriously, the music industry has been hit hard by the net. Even in 2000-2004 when hip hop accounted for 60% of all music purchases, people were still Limewiring or Napstering it up. The fault lies within the artists. Sorry, but I aint payin 15$ for an album full of guests. So until dudes really put the pen to the paper and craft Cd's like Chronic 2001, The Marshall Mathers Album, I AM, The Black Album, tp2.com, etc, thats goin to continue to happen. Truth is people are dropping hot 16's but not hot albums.
charimatic was rite, as always, when he said dat Jay Z wasn't a good president
I mean look at da artists dat went Gold or Platinum, they were Rap heavyweights(Or at least in popularity)
The ones dat flopped were actually very good artists(Redman, Method Man, Ghostface, etc.) but they didn't get proper marketin like charimatic also said, I didn't kno Redman had an album til I got on this site n dat was in November n Red's album came out around March!
Like I said before, Hov isn't the only one to blame here
Is there a retirement home for whiny, washed up, non relevant rappers???
NO REAL DISRESPECT TA LL BUT HOW U GONNA TRY TA KNOCK HOV WHEN U SIGN UR SOUL AWAY IN THE 80's WHEN DUDE WAS A HUSTLER WIT NOTHING TO DO WIT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
Man Fuck LL
If women didnt love him so much his last hit would have been back in 89!
He would be "special Ed" or "young Mc" by now. A str8 up nobody!!!
But I've got a stupid question;
How many artists have gone plat on DefJam that Jay-Z didn't sign?
since Jay-Z became pres.
He doing what he got to do..all of these artists ondefjam aint worth it and they not making money on their own but I do think that Hov need to support and move'em out more so they can make they money even though they ass!And I fuck wit L but Jay-Z is my Idol...oh yeah May 1st....Hov and MJB concert in Buffalo,NY