LL Cool J stars as Sam Hanna in the action television series "NCIS: Los Angeles." Here's why the rapper first joined the show ...

Queens' own LL Cool J, aka James Todd Smith, has a place on hip-hop's Mount Rushmore, with some of the greatest rap songs ...

The rapper said he has no plans for crazy outfit changes and want to "keep it simple" The MTV VMAs, which he's hosting for the second time, air Sunday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS This year's MTV VMAs ...

LL Cool J has been bringing the cool and captivating crowds with his voice for decades. Following his epic six-minute medley at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, where he performed his hits "Going Back ...

The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards are a month away, which seems like an opportune time for MTV to announce the host for this year’s ceremony. LL COOL J, who last co-hosted in 2022 with Nicki Minaj and ...

Fifty years after critics dismissed hip-hop as a passing fad, Grammy winner LL COOL J is taking viewers back to the genre's authentic New York roots with his new docuseries "Hip Hop Was Born Here," ...

LL Cool J found love with his wife, Simone I. Smith, when they were teenagers. The rapper and host of the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards met his longtime love in 1987 in New York City, and they dated for ...

PHILADELPHIA — Rapper LL Cool J says he will not perform at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in support of a strike by nearly 10,000 city workers in Philadelphia. The rapper and actor had ...

The headlining performer for this year’s Welcome America concert on the Fourth of July has a message for Philadelphia as the city’s largest blue-collar union, AFSCME District Council 33, strikes. In a ...