LL Cool J will perform on Philadelphia's Ben Franklin Parkway this year after all. Months after pulling out of the city's Fourth of July concert at the last minute during a worker strike, LL Cool J is ...

Don’t call it a comeback! Hip-hop legend LL COOL J is going back to Philly, Philly, Philly, for some unfinished business on New Year’s Eve. “Philadelphia is thrilled to welcome everyone to our vibrant ...

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," ...

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’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway was primed to ignite with hip-hop history on July 4, 2025. After all, the legendary LL Cool J was slated to headline the Wawa Welcome America July 4th Concert ...

LL Cool J is walking away from Friday's Wawa Welcome America concert in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia. In an Instagram post posted late on Thursday night, LL Cool J ...