{"id":120,"date":"2013-05-01T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2019-04-12T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T04:16:19","slug":"ll-cool-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"LL Cool J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LL-Cool-J.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LL-Cool-J.jpg\" alt=\"LL Cool J\" width=\"144\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LL-Cool-J.jpg 144w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LL-Cool-J-108x150.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a>James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), better known as LL Cool J, (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor from Bay Shore, New York. He is known for romantic ballads such as &#8220;I Need Love&#8221;, &#8220;Around the Way Girl&#8221; and &#8220;Hey Lover&#8221; as well as pioneering hip-hop such as &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Live Without My Radio&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m Bad&#8221;, &#8220;The Boomin&#8217; System&#8221;, and &#8220;Mama Said Knock You Out&#8221;.\u00a0 He dropped out of Andrew Jackson High School<\/p>\n<p>to record his debut album \u201cRadio\u201d which was released in 1985 and was certified platinum. He eventually returned to school to\u00a0receive\u00a0his GED.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His discipline to living a healthy life has enabled him to receive large success, where he has released thirteen studio albums and two greatest hits compilations, including 2008&#8217;s Exit 13, the last for his record deal with Def Jam Recordings with his newest album &#8220;Authentic&#8221;, hitting stores April 30, 2013. He has also appeared in numerous films, including Halloween H20: 20 Twenty Years Later, and currently stars as NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna on the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-313\" src=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-300x62.jpeg\" alt=\"dropout contact\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-300x62.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-1024x212.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-250x52.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[bigContact form=on phones=on emails=on hours=on map=on]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-living-legends","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-4-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}