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report on LL's appearance on BET's "Rap
City: Tha Bassment" -
July 18
LL Cool J appeared
today on the popular BET hiphop show, "Rap
City: Tha Bassment" with host BIG Tigger.
The appearance was in promotion of the new
Violator Management Compilation album,
"Violator: The Album V2.0," due in
stores on July 24th.
Also appearing with LL was fellow Violator
artiste and legendary hiphop pioneer DJ Red
Alert. Alert is featured on the new compilation
an is set to deliver his highly anticipated new
debut album and documentary, on Loud Records
entitled "DJ Red Alert Presents: Beats,
Rhymes & Battles: Vol.1" due Aug. 7th,
2001. The album features two classic battle
songs by LL Cool J. They are "Jack The
Ripper," the ultimate diss song to Kool Moe
Dee and "To Da Break Of Dawn," where
LL disses Ice T, MC Hammer and Kool Moe Dee and
others.
In this promotional appearance, LL wore a light
yellow dorag over a black skullcap, light shaded
eyeglasses, a black top Platinum Fubu "Fat
Albert" shirt, and dark grey jeans with
yellow Timbalands.
Over short and humorous discussions, LL, DJ Red
Alert and host BIG Tigger exchanged
conversations about violence in music, battle
beefs between MCs, family and thug aggression.
LL revealed that his last movie flick,
"Kingdom Come" made a sizeable profit
and tripled it's production cost at the Box
Office earlier this year. The movie is set to
embark on a worldwide distribution since it has
nearly completed it's US Box Office run. A DVD/Video
release should hit US stores later this year. On
other movie news, LL said that his next film,
"Rollerball" is set back to early 2002
due to the need to incorporate additional
special effects. He commented that he felt that
it was needed and should make for a better film.
In a quick take on his new upcoming album with
Swizz Beatz, he said that he felt good about the
early production, but didn't disclose any
details.
Suprisingly, there was no freestyle from LL, BIG
Tigger or fellow new Violator artistes Da
Franchise Crew (who appeared at the end of the
show). This was due in part to the laid back
approach interview style of Tigger, who showed
no inclination to question LL indepth. The
atmosphere was casual and relaxed. LL was very
happy, humorous, exchanging comedic jabs and
seems to be in his element. No doubt, due to his
recent and successful exploits on his European
expedition.
"Violator: The Album V2.0" is a
follow-up to the successful platinum selling
debut "Violator: The Album," that
featuring the Grammy Award nominated single
"Vivrant Thing" by Q-Tip. The new
album features Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Method
Man, Mobb Deep, Noreaga and Capone, Missy, and
Ja Rule amongst others...
"Rap City: Tha Bassment" will host
Mobb Deep (Prodigy and Havoc), and CNN (Capone
and Noreaga) on, July 19th, 2001. This is also
in promotion of the new Violator compilation.
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