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LL Cool J Relearns “How to Rap” on His First Album in 11 Years, “The FORCE”

NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy Award-winning rapper, actor and writer LL Cool J will release his first recent album in 11 years, “The FORCE,” in September — 40 years after launching his hip-hop profession.
Not that he wasn’t making music during that point. “I was always tinkering in the studio here and there,” he told The Associated Press via Zoom. But in the past two years, inspiration really struck. He began working with a producer and taking music more seriously.
Then he hit a snag. “I just felt like the songs this producer was giving me were better than the songs I was writing,” he says. Then the late Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest got here to him in a dream. “He said, ‘Hey, man, this new music you’re working on is great, man.’ But he had this Cheshire cat look on his face, like he was lying to me,” he says.
It was a wake-up call—and something told him to call A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip to work together. The move worked: Q-Tip produced every song and created all of the beats on “The FORCE,” out Sept. 6.
LL Cool J describes the strategy of creating his 14th studio album as “going back to the drawing board and learning how to rap again…making sure I’m really inspired by what I’m saying. That’s why there’s not a lot of bullshit on this album.”
“The LeBrons, the Stephs, the Jordans, the Kobes, they all go back to the drawing board, always trying to be better,” he continued. “I wasn’t trying to be trendy, and I wasn’t trying to recapture anything I had done before.”
The FORCE is an inventive rap album inspired by LL Cool J’s storied profession, touching on quite a lot of topics reminiscent of the facility of self-motivation (“Passion”), temperamental style (“Murdergram Deux,” the long-awaited collaboration with Eminem), dangerous sensuality at work (“Proclivities” featuring Saweetie) and cautionary tales, as seen in the lead single “Saturday Night Special” featuring Rick Ross and Fat Joe.
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Particularly effective is the one-two punch of “Huey in the Chair” — a nod to the famous photo of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton — which the rapper describes as “taking a stand for what you believe in,” and the funky, urban beats of “Basquiat Energy,” celebrating the modern spirit of the artist who named him. The rapper says the American icons are united by their ability to “express their personal truths,” which is what he set out to do on this album.
Thus, “The FORCE,” which stands for “the frequencies of true creative energy,” became the unofficial mantra of the label.
“That’s what we wanted to present to the world,” he said. (*11*)
And after hip-hop’s fiftieth anniversary last 12 months, LL Cool J says he “wanted to show people that artists who have had long, successful careers, so to speak, can make modern contributions to hip-hop that have a big impact. I’d never seen anything like that before. That was another challenge: Can I make something that sounds modern and fresh?”
There’s no trendiness here — expect to hear rappers rapping for real — but nobody should consider this as a nostalgia play. The album is jam-packed with guests, even beyond Ross, Fat Joe, Saweetie, and Eminem: Snoop Dogg, Sona Jobareth, Busta Rhymes, Nas, Mad Squablz, JS.AND, and Don Pablito are amongst them.
“One thing I wanted to do was meet people where I am now. I wasn’t trying to be a preacher,” he said. “I’m not trying to tell people how to live their lives necessarily. I wanted to express myself to people where I am artistically at this point in my life and give it to them. And then they can take it and do whatever they want with it.”
“The FORCE” album track list:
- “Spirit of Cyrus” (featuring Snoop Dogg)
- “Force”
- “Saturday Night Special” (feat. Rick Ross and Fat Joe)
- “Black Code Suite” (feat. Sona Jobarteh)
- “Passion”
- “Tendencies” (feat. Saweetie)
- “Postmodern”
- “December 30th”
- “Run back”
- “Huey In Da Chair” (featuring Busta Rhymes)
- “Basquiat’s Energy”
- “Praise Him” (feat. Nas)
- “Murdergram Deux” (featuring Eminem)
- “The Vow” (featuring Mad Squablz, JS.AND and Don Pablito)
Television
Kel Mitchell, the star “Kenan & Kel”, hopes to launch his own orange soda, restart the popular program with Kenan Thompson

Who loves orange soda? You know who!
The only Kel Mitchell, who appeared as a kel in the comedy of the hit Nickelodeon “Kenan & Kel” alongside Kenan Thompson, revealed during a recent performance in Connecticut in the Nineties in Connecticut that he continues to be serious about his old flame and intends to bring a healthy version of the orange drink for masses. People magazine Reported.
After asking about Kela’s love for orange soda during the convention, the 46-year-old actor remembered how the affair was avoided during a bit, by which his character dances in the form of Fred Astaire, in the rainfall of soda orange. As fans of the series, which was broadcast in 1996-2000, May reminds with love, Kel’s passion for orange soda was a dominant topic. So much, the actor said to today that he was asked to recite the famous slogan of his character: “Who loves orange soda? Kel loves orange soda!”
Then it was teasing that his own version may very well be coming.
“But is coming, well? My own orange soda,” he said, for people. “I talked on the phone with my lawyer because … it must be healthy. I can’t have children just drinking fructose and sugar, you know what I mean? So we worked on it.”
Mitchell also shared several other things in the work which will fall on the pipeline, CT Insider Reported. He was teasing that he and his longtime best friend and former star, Thompson, talked about the third a part of the “Good Burger” movie series, by which the stars of Thompson and Mitchell Stars as the best friends and joint employees Burger Dexter and Ed.
“So, about it,” we tone. At the end of the film I said: “We’re going into space. We’ll be” fast and furious, “he said.
“Me and Kenan actually sat down and talked about the script for the third part, in order, so he will go down. We must make sure it is true, just like” Good Burger 2 ” – he continued. “We won’t make you wait over 15 years.”
The actor also said that it is feasible that he and Thompson will restart his comedy “Kenan & Kel”, by which the valued dynamic duo tries to move his life as husbands and fathers.
In 2022, Thompson and Mitchell definitely joined the “SNL” again For a sketch, by which they “re -launted” “Kenan & Kel” next to Keke Palmer.

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Television
A member of the cast “Love is a blind” Ashley Adions, after parting from Tyler Francis: “He is a pathological liar”

Ashley Adions with Netflix “Love Is Blind” S7 finally breaks silence about the scandal surrounding the rainfall from her marriage with Tyler Francis.
The 32-year-old television reality star appeared in the latest episode of the “What’s the Reality” podcast, led by the star “Love Is Blind” Ad Smith, and turned to the scandal, the response she received, their approaching divorce and more.
“I will say that I have learned and what I take to other relationships is: be careful with your empathy,” said Adions Host AD. “Your empathy must have boundaries. I am a very empathic person and I think he played with all his sad stories about how he grew up and all these things. So if I could do something different, it would be to protect my empathy.”
After meeting and engagement, not seeing one another, the Adtionser married 34 -year -old Francis during the seventh season of the hit series Reality Netflix. The popular program, which the city jumps every season, landed in Washington in the seventh season.
While filming and the program began to broadcast, the attack of gossip surrounded the story of Francis. During the filming, he confessed to the biological father of three children; At that point, nonetheless, he said that he was only their semen donor. He argued that through the exit, when, as a united front, they were barely grilled about the assembly drama.
The Adions (and Internet Legions) later deduced that this story has rather more. Even since then, the child’s mother has come out to verify the same. The Adions shared that she took matters into her own hands and searched his laptop in search of suggestions, which ultimately led her to the conclusion that he was misleading about the nature of his relationship together with his mother’s mother.
“He is a pathological liar, and I looked at this man, how are you? If we do not have the two biggest things in marriage that are trust and honesty, what do we have?” She said. And the response of the social media she faced, worsened him even worse. “It was so dark, it was different than everything I have ever experienced in my real life,” she added.
After full disclosure, the couple announced a split in January and has not seen it since then. In Podcastie, she stated that she could officially submit a divorce application at 23:59, on Wednesday, May 21. A resident of Virginia remembered how they each became fans of fans during the series, and lots of described the former pair as the gateway of the “R&B Love” relationship.
“Before everything became viral, everyone was like” R&B Love, Tyler and Ashley. In the end we now have them. ”
She added: “You felt what I felt through this wall. It was real for me and I think he loved me in a certain capacity.”
Considering the attack of a negative slack, which she received amongst Franciszek’s lies, the Adtionser called social media warriors to more “careful” in his interactions with significant characters.
“I moved after the impossible situation in the best way I knew how. I will always go out when I found out what I had to find out … If I find out what I need to find out,” she said.
As for love, while the DM Adions are open, she said that she was not looking, even though it doesn’t allow it to experience this to scare away love.
“I was in the era of my soft girl,” she admitted. “But I want to stop her just because I gave my love to the wrong person, does not mean that my love is not the highest level.”

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Television
Netflix teases the “other world” spinoff cast

We could be one step closer to the continuation of the beloved sitcom “Another World”.
This weekend, many stores have announced that Netflix has filled six stars who’re to play regular series in Spinoff. According to Variety, These actors are: Chibuik to make as Kojo, Maleah Joi Moon as Deborah, Cornell Young IV as Shaquille, Jordan Aaron Hall as Amir, Alijah Kai as Rashida and Kennedi McClure as Hazel. Alijah Kai is the daughter of the famous actress and singer Tichin Arnold.
Deadline He reports that the spin-off “Another World” will follow Dwayne and Daughter Whitley when he goes through his journey at Hillman College, a historically fictitious fictitious black college. Rumors began to spin about the development of continuation in August 2024, with reports of pilot targeting last month.
“We don’t like to speak too much, you know, but for many years I have been working on restarting the” other world “, and now it is within reach,” said Allen.
As Allen describes, “The other world changed the world” when it premiered in 1987. Designed as the separation of “The Cosby Show”, a series, which initially centered the journey of Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet) through College, quickly expanded beyond that, following her class colleagues and further. After broadcasting for six seasons, the program led to 1993.
In addition to Allen, in the upcoming continuation, he’ll report some crew behind the backstage of the original series, corresponding to Tom Werner, Gina Prince-Byhwood and Reggie Bytthewood.
“It is within our reach,” explained Allen. “We hope for this, because it is a program that will inspire so many young people around the world,” said Allen. “When we did this (” different world “) the first time, we got a historically black universities and encouraged every ethnic group of young people to go to college. So the power of the cinema is really great. ”

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