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Originally Posted by ♥MiCHiE♥
LL ain't HARD CORE by any stretch of the imagination. His most "hard core" song is "I'm Bad". WTF?
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While he currently is not a HARD CORE rapper, that is what he started out as and actually what he STILLS thinks he is. You obviously didn't listen to his latest cd, exit 13 (it was awful so I do not blame you AT ALL).. but he has a few songs on there trying to take it all the way back to "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... No body can rap quite like I can. I take a muscle bound man and put his face in the sand!"
And you also have to remember that when LL first came out, his type of rapping was hard core. We didn't have gangsta rap, at least not to the effect that it is now. So he's doing what he was brought up to believe is hard core....
And wait his only hardcore song was "I'm bad"... I'm sorry but LL has definitely had more hardcore songs than that. Have you ever listened to "4,3,2,1"? That song renewed my respect for LL.... yea and then he came out w/ the several tragic albums after that
Moreover, every rapper in the game tries to be classified as hardcore b/c that's what sells. But that has also lead to a more watered down image of what is hardcaore and leans more toward gun toting metrosexual. I think Will Smith is possibly the only rapper in recent years to not try to be all like "I'm HARD!!!".
But yea, I too would not classify his as a hard core rapper regardless of whatever misconceptions he has about his current status. And I still would love to be alone in a room with him