Mama Said Knock You Out

Description

LL Cool J’s egotism is his m.o., his sex appeal, his greatest strength. He’d been on top of the world since he started scoring hits as a teenager, but anyone who’s been in the rap game for five years, as he’d been when Mama arrived, has something to prove. So he came out swinging-literally-with the title track, which claims boxing trash talk as proto-rap and turns it into a declaration of ongoing mastery. Beyond that, Mama, with it’s ultra-hard Marley Marl production, pumps up his love-man rep (the sweetly affectionate “Around the Way Girl” and an even hornier remix of “Jingling Baby”) and his ego (pretty much everything else). It’s mostly just old-school boasting, but damn if it isn’t deserved.

• – Disc 1 –
• 1The Boomin’ System
• 2Around the Way Girl
• 3Eat Em Up L Chill
• 4Mr. Good Bar
• 5Murdergram
• 6Cheesy Rat Blues
• 7Farmers Blvd. (Our Anthem) (Feat. Big Money, Bom, Grip and HIC)
• – Disc 2 –
• 1Mama Said Knock You Out
• 2Milky Cereal
• 3Jingling Baby (Remixed But Still Jingling)
• 4To Da Break of Dawn
• 56 Minutes of Pleasure
• 6Illegal Search
• 7The Power of God