LL Cool J married Smith in 1995 and they share four children Steve Granitz/WireImage LL Cool J says that having "a couple TVs" helps his marriage with wife Simone I. Smith "I might not want to watch ...

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 ...

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 ...

LL Cool J is doin’ it — and by it, we mean hosting the MTV Video Music Awards solo for the first time next month in his native New York. MTV announced Thursday that the Long Island-born “Doin’ It” ...

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 and Jazmine Sullivan canceled their appearances at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in solidarity with the city workers who are on strike in Philly. “I understand there’s a lot going ...

Both artists said they would not cross the picket line, taking a clear stand in solidarity with the workers. LL Cool J and Jazmine Sullivan have announced their support for the striking members of ...

Hip-hop legend LL Cool J announced that he was pulling out of a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in support of municipal workers’ ongoing strike in the city. “There’s absolutely no way that I ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 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 ...

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