Word: rappers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...okays the guests and even wrote the theme music. (He has a substantial share of the show's profits.) He has recorded a comedy-music album, Large and In Charge, scheduled for release later this month. On it he performs in the persona of an alter ego, a fat rapper named Chunky A, whom Hall played as a "guest" on his show last May. He has made a video as Chunky A, now airing on MTV. A movie career, meanwhile, has sprouted almost effortlessly. Last year Hall co-starred with his best pal Eddie Murphy in Coming to America...
...pride in giving exposure to many black performers ("I have a commitment to correcting the wrongs of TV history"), Hall insists he is doing a show for everybody, black and white. "I'm out to bring the ghetto to the suburbs and the suburbs to the ghetto. I want ((rapper)) Tone-Loc and Major Ferguson, Fergie's dad, on the same couch. Most white people have never been to a party at a black person's house. I hope they say, 'This one looks nice -- maybe...
POOR LL Cool J. Almost every rap artist has made fun of him ever since his second album, Bigger and Deffer, turned the 20-year-old rapper from New York into the self-proclaimed King...
Unlike other rappers, LL likes to play with words. He won't go for the easy rhyme. What other rapper would match "Jimmy Olson" with "green, golden Molson?" Or who would even think of dubbing a few bars of the Cheers theme song? Only...
...hard to avoid wondering why LL doesn't sing about different subjects on his newest album. Sure, he brags like no other rapper, but that's all he does. Except for "Fast Peg" and "Change Your Ways," Cool J raps about himself. That formula is starting to wear after only three albums...