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Rapper LL Cool J performs onstage in front of a giant boombox in circa 1988. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) ‘It’s in the Past Now’: The LL Cool J Album That Ended in Relative Failure (and What He Learned From It)
Back in 1989, LL Cool J dropped one of the worst received albums of his career, but the very next year he dropped his greatest.
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LL Cool J in 1986. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) -

American hip hop group Run-DMC in New York City in March 1985. (Photo by John Nordell/Getty Images)






