Hip-hop has been a collaborative tradition since its inception, and from Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne to Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss, collaborative albums have turn out to be their very own phenomenon inside rap music. And LL Cool J virtually added one to the gathering. The rapper revealed on the Wednesday (Aug. 9) episode of The Breakfast Membership that he as soon as wrote a collaborative album with 50 Cent.
“I attempted to do a extra collaborative writing album. I did an entire album with 50 Cent. And we have been writing collectively on this album,” LL Cool J recounted. “And when it was performed, I listened to it. I’m like, ‘It sounds good. I just like the music, it sounds cool, however it ain’t me.’ So, I ain’t put it out.”
“It was nothing in opposition to 50, I really like 50,” he clarified. “I simply wished to attempt one thing completely different. Possibly we collaborate, write collectively … It didn’t work.”
When one of many radio present’s co-hosts introduced up “Paradise,” LL’s 2002 Billboard Sizzling 100 prime 40 hit (No. 36), the Grammy-winner defined, “50 wrote the refrain on ‘Paradise’ for Amerie, which she sung. He didn’t write my rhymes … when that occurred, I didn’t even know 50 was concerned. That was The Trackmasters, they acquired that performed.”
As probably the most celebrated and embellished rappers of his period, LL’s artistry has all the time been as necessary to him as his persona. “The collaborative factor, in relation to my verses, that doesn’t work for me,” he mentioned.
The “Mama Stated Knock You Out” rapper additionally mused in regards to the apprehension that comes with persevering with to rap whereas getting old, and mentioned that he “loves” to be underestimated as a result of “it makes the jabs that a lot stiffer.”
Watch his interview with The Breakfast Membership above.
