This post is by no means meant to be an attack on LL Cool J. In fact I’ve got mad love for LL, I just don’t want his career to dwindle away and die much like an aging basketball player who thinks one more season of playing will result in him getting that NBA Championship. His time is up, we all know it and it’s about time he does too, so for that I write…

Last month we made a post about LL Cool J and his desire to continue rapping for many more years to come. Personally, I feel as though LL hasn’t been hot since his infamous fued with Canibus (which was almost what….10 years ago?) Anyways, LL’s back again, this time talking to the Associated Press, and you take a look at what he has to say:

On 50 Cent: Working with 50 was inspiring. You have to realize I had no reason to be hungry. When you’re the best at something for a long time, and you make albums in a couple months and they’re still going gold or selling a million records…and you’re making a living in films and stuff, it affects the music. But watching 50 crouch over that notebook and seeing him bounce back and forth in the studio, that inspired me and made me hungry again.

On Jay-Z impacting Exit 13: As far as him leaving, it’s not really relevant because I was already working on my record anyway. It was nothing he would have been able to do to stop it. It would have been what it was going to be either way. And I don’t think he would have wanted to stop it.

On 25 years in the rap game: I don’t have a rap artist in front of me to look at to say, “OK, what do you do when you’re in your 25th year of your rap career?” Because most of the guys that are my age, they’ve only been out for 12 years, or 13 or 14 years max. The guys that people call veterans in hip-hop are like new guys to me. Lets take a guy like Nas. I love Nas; I respect Nas. He’s from Queens and I love him, but Nas is like a new cat to me. You know what I’m saying: It’s incredible to me, but I respect him as a legend and I respect him as a man…I just want to me make hot records; I want to give people hot music, and i just have to lead the way.

I don’t want to take anything away from the illustrious career of LL, but he can’t be serious! “When you’re the best at something for a long time?” LL hasn’t been Top 10 since the mid 90s!!! I understand the need to define your legacy and leave something to be remembered for, but he already has that in 1985’s Radio (which was a crazy album!!), and the battle with Canibus. The best thing for LL to do is put up that microphone for good and stick with making films and lifting weights.

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