Trivia / LL Cool J

• Career Resurrection: Even if he insists he's been here for years, Mama Said Knock You Out definitely restored his credibility with fans after he was accused of "selling out" and watering down his image when he released Walkin' With a Panther.
• Creator Backlash:
  • In a 2022 interview with Billboard, He said his problem with 10, despite it being one of his best selling albums, was the fact that he coasted too much on the album, and he wasn't in tune with the streets like he should've been.
  • In the same Billboard interview above, LL openly disowned Authentic, admitting he was too unfocused because of his many TV projects at the time, and once again not being tuned into the streets, resulting in the album's failure.
• Referenced by...: You know that line from "That's a Lie" mentioned on J's main page? Roddy Piper would actually reference it when exposing Eric Bischoff as the man behind the New World Order on a November 1996 episode of WCW Monday Nitro.
• Uncredited Role: Because Def Jam blocked him from appearing on the anti-violence single "Self Destruction" (likely owing to his feud with Kool Moe Dee, who was also on the track), he settled for ghostwriting MC Lyte's verse instead.
• Throw It In!: On "Droppin' Em", the song ends with the guitar sample from the intro coming in at the wrong time. According to an interview he did with Eminem, LL made the beat himself out of tape loops, and the tape accidentally got jammed when he recorded the song. LL decided to leave it in.
• What Could Have Been: "Serious Effect", a New Jack Swing track LL had recorded with Michael Jackson for the album Dangerous in 1991. Due to said album running nearly 80 minutes with 14 full tracks, Michael ended up shelving the song for special edition releases in 1993 and 2001, only for the song to get shelved indefinitely (the first time due to Jackson's child molestation allegations, the second due to both growing tensions between Jackson and Sony and Def Jam vetoing the release of the song).