LL COOL J AND 50 CENT COMPLETE ALBUM TOGETHER AND LL SELECTS ONLY THE BEST

Preparing for his final album release, Exit 13, legendary rapper LL Cool J sat down with SOHH to talk about fellow Queens, NY superstar 50 Cent’s impact on the project, difficulty in deciding which records to use and admitting he “didn’t want to be 51 Cent.”
LL cleared up initial rumors about his last Def Jam release being exclusively produced by the G-Unit leader but did admit they recorded an entire album’s worth of music.

“50 is not executive producing the whole album be we did a whole album together and I used like four or five songs,” he told SOHH. “I didn’t want to be ‘51 Cent.’ I want to make sure that I was giving them L. God knows that last thing I needed to do is wait ‘til my 13th album and play son-son and all that.”

Promising the decision to trim his selection down to single digits from the multi-platinum selling rapper was based on artistic purposes; the G.O.A.T. confessed his selections were carefully chosen.

“I love my man, he’s extremely talented and the music that we worked on together was hot,” he explained. “It’s just I made sure that I selected records that I felt had my voice and spoke from my heart.”

Continuing to give 50 props for his dedication to the project, LL detailed the coaching he received from him.

“I’m in there with 50 and I’m watching him and he’s writing choruses and giving me ideas for songs and telling me I should rap like this,” he added. “We sitting in there and I’m writing and he’s telling me, ‘Yo you should say it like this’.” LL went on to say that the process “was a lot of fun” and concluded by confessing 50 “got me amped up and you know once I get a battery in my back I go crazy.”

Exit 13 is currently scheduled to hit stores September 9th on Def Jam Records.

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Comment by cee on August 9, 2008 at 8:03pm: reitre ll u corny now

Comment by Raw Dawg on August 9, 2008 at 10:03pm: this is a joke right?

Comment by Hopesnatcher on August 9, 2008 at 11:58pm: Respect the God son!

Comment by jay on August 10, 2008 at 12:51am: 50 iz garbage so what does that mean 4 LL's shit?

Comment by H.N.I.C on August 10, 2008 at 1:30pm: 50 is garbage and LL aint been shit since da 80's he need to say fuck dis album cuz it aint gon sell shit and sit his punk ass down ....p.s. fuck dat punk ass nigga 50 and dick ridin ass g-unit

Comment by D-MAN on August 10, 2008 at 2:57pm: ALL You PUSSY'S who leave these hatin ass comments a corny..
two black men from the same city get togeather and make good HIP HOP music and all you
bitch ass blogers can do is HATE ON NIGGAS CUZ YOU CAN'T DO WHAT THEY DO
OR GET THEY KIND OF CASH... let's see one of your bitch asses put out an album and watch how MA FUCKERS GONE HATE ON YOU.. WHILE YOU TRY AND SELL 40 UNITS OUT YOUR TRUNK put ass niggas STOP FUCKING HATING ON ONE ANOTHER!!!