Ok, I'm getting in on pollamania :lol: One of my absolute fave rappers of the 80's...what's your pick for best of?

I voted for "Going Back to Cali", as it is the only song of LL's that I remember, other than "Mama Said Knock You Out"... :)

"Rock the bells" by far! "LL Cool J is hard as hell, battle anybody...."

Welcome to pollmania Roem! :lol:

I voted for my fave "I'm That Type Of Guy"! :thumb: But I also like "Mama Said Knock You Out"!

Mama said knock you out is actually 1990 that's why I didn't include it ;) At least I'm pretty sure it is :p

My absolute favorite is "I can't live without my radio"

I liked "I Need Love".

Mine's Going Back To Cali. :)

only uptempo rap one I remember from him.

Forgot to vote to my own poll :p I went with 'Big Ole Butt'...funny song I can kinda relate to (the song itself, not the title....my butt is by no means big :lol: ).

I'm not a rap fan but 'Goin' Back To Cali' was catchy, I also liked 'I Need Love'

I voted for I Need Love. It is one of the few rap songs from the eighties that I actually know the lyrics to.

I'm not a big LL Cool J song but I voted for I'm That Type Of Guy.

I love him
I love
him
I love him

It was very hard for me to choose since I love them all.. but i chose
Going Back to Cali!!

My Vote was for "I Need Love" :love: It's always nice to know the Bad boys have a soft side and a tender heart too:) I still like to play this song from time to time.

Originally posted by Therrall
My Vote was for "I Need Love" :love: It's always nice to know the Bad boys have a soft side and a tender heart too:) I still like to play this song from time to time.

It really is a neat love song, isn't it? It is very unique in it sounds and very unusual for a rap song.

I voted for other cause I liked "Mama said knock you out!"

HA! I'm the only one that voted for, "Jingling Baby"? :D That is a great song!

And yeah, Mama Said Knock You Out was released in '90 ;)

I Need Love, that was like THE love song of the 80's :lol:

I Need Love :love:

"Big Ole Butt". It's a classic.:lol:
:moon:

Oh man, from the first time I heard "I Need A Beat" I was hooked!

I like "It Gets No Rougher" also. And the BAD album. :)

mama said knock you out

Again... 'Mama said knock you out' was 1990!!!! This poll is strictly for 80s!

**twitches psychotically** :lol:

Definitely 'I'm That Type Of Guy'. At the time that I heard the song, I was living in Germany and dating a married woman. I used to ride to work with a friend and play that song while making up my own words: "I'm that type of guy who's doin' the dirty with your honey, while you're at work, bustin' yo ass to bring her home some money!" I was very evil back then! :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil:

"I'm that type of guy who's doin' the dirty with your honey, while you're at work, bustin' yo ass to bring her home some money!"

:laugh: Sounds like me before I developed a conscience... which wasn't really all that long ago... :lol: The evil never goes away, it just lies dormant :mwaha::lol:;)

'Mama said knock you out' was 1990!!!! This poll is strictly for 80s!

Kinda touchy on the 80's huh? Well I voted for ROCK THE BELLS. I think that some rappers today sample that beat.

Roemello is that how you look now or back in the day?
You got some big hair. :cool:

Not really.... I like his 90s work.. in some cases, better than the 80s stuff. I just like to keep things as 80s as possible (since it's an 80s forum and all ;)). Especially where I specified 80s only :p

The pic was taken this year in March during the Boston Xchanger meeting. As for the hair... it's FAR from big :lol: I guess I didn't do a good crop job. I had just gotten a fade the day before that was taken. It was a little spiked up though on top having come in from the rain :p

I like the old stuff better. My vote: Rock the bells. #2: I'm Bad.

I also have to admit that I always liked the Do Wop song. I think it's the last song on the 2nd side of Bigger And Deffer album.

I have to admitt I like "Jack the Ripper" that might be 90's but if you all ever get a hold of that one its really good. What song was in a movie back in the 80's

Jack the Ripper was '88 I believe... now I'm wonderin what I was thinkin not putting it in the poll! For shame! :lol:

SHAME ON YOU!! I remember buying that one in Germany on my way to see the Beastie Boys in Concert.

I went with Jingling Baby! But I loved most of the list. :)

Jack the Ripper was '88 I believe... now I'm wonderin what I was thinkin not putting it in the poll! For shame! :lol:
As a matter of fact, Going back to Cali. was on side one

I actually chose Other, because my two favorite songs by LL Cool J were Mama Said Knock You Out and Around the Way Girl even though they were released in the 90's.

For me though, the best LL Cool J song is from the 90's and that's Phenomenon!

yeah Phenomenon is definitely the cherry on top!

YO,YO,YO,YO!!! Rock the bells was hard.But we he spit "I'M BAD"....AAAAAAAAWWWWWW SH#$T!!! That song is ( to me ) one of ,if not ,the best ,battle-brag, rap songs of all time..yo Search Kazaa for my mixtapes. My DJ NAME IS DJC...Search DJC under artist or mixtape under album. OLD SCHOOL 4 ever..Never Gonna Change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jack the Ripper HANDS DOWN!

Dear Yvette is my favorite song.

Going Back to Cali :thumb:

I'm Bad :mwaha: Go Cut Creator Go was also a great song.

At least LL could say "Im Bad" and sound legit; Michael Jackson... not so much. :bs:

I believe this song was somewhere in the 90's.

Around The Way Girl

http://xsao.net/Music/xsao.cgi?song=1/383/1249_1_10


{11 cds, full length songs}

http://www.xsao.net/Urban/2Urban/LL_Cool_J/

Dan

Ichose other, I loved the song "Dear Yvette."

Going Back to Cali got my vote.

I Need Love got my vote b/c it was innovative in that a rapper had a love song. It still touches me.

"Cali" baby !!! :thumb:


Followed by "I'm that type of guy" is a second and "Round the way girl" is another fav !

Hell, LL is just cool !!! :clap:

Im Bad
Go Cutcreater Go
I Need Love

Going Back To Cali!

"She showed me a beach, gave me a peach and pulled out the suntan lotion." :thumb:

For me, Jingling Baby is is awesome! That's one of the best party songs and it defines the hip hop genre for me. That is RAP :thumb:

Following close behind is: I Need Love, I'm Bad, I Can't Live Without My Radio, and Rock the Bells. LL just rules, hands down!

I Can't Live Without my Radio!

I guess I like it cause it was his first hit... :)

Ladies Love... Goin' Back to Cali...
I'm That Type of Guy ... Wooo Hooo, LL is too hot to play favorites!

I was @ work and Dana Dane was playing "Cinderfella" and this young guy about 21 was working with me and I asked him if he heard D.D. before he said "no" he like it. When I told him this wasn't an edited version he could not believe it. I told him this is the regular version of the song. Anyway I"ll put in a vote for him he said he like LL's
"Radio"

Goin' Back To Cali :)

It was a tie for me...but since I was actually listening to "I'm Bad" when I saw this thread, I voted for it. hahaha

"Rock The Bells" & "I'm Bad" are definately classic tracks for the oldschool DJ. I actually knew all the lyrics to "I Need Love" when I was younger. I still have a recording of me rappin it. lol

I was just playing "Jack the Ripper" that song is .....WOW!! he just rip on "Cool Moe D" . I saw him on VH 1 and Rick Ruben said that LL was nervous about that song because it did'nt sound like his others and Rick had to convince LL that it would sell. LL said that lp "14 shots to the dome" failed in sells, which it did. LL said "that got the big head" and when they went to a club to perform it live he said "they treated us like a opening act, no one was paying attention". Then guys on the street would walk up to him and say he was soft and wasn't hard anymore and try and challenge him.
People would boo him going buy.