Women look lovingly at (who are we kidding?! They ogle the 6-foot-2 hip hop icon), and get jelly-legs at his oversized dimples scarcely understand the funnel cloud of rage that lied just beneath the surface of his chiseled exterior that helped fuel his meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the embryonic genre known as hip hop back in the 1980s. He overcame his tumultuous childhood and subsequent bullying ways and channeled that force of nature raging within on wax and eventually landed a record deal, on the way to becoming the first pin-up heartthrob of the rap era.
Today, Cool J is a rapper, actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the embodiment of a person overcoming the harshest of circumstances to achieve the ultimate American Dream.
Let’s take a quick look back at the life of LL Cool J.
