Released May 29, 1987 | Length 45:13 Release date 22 July 1987 | |
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Recorded 1986–1987Chung King House of Metal (New York City) Genres Hip hop music, Golden age hip hop, Hardcore hip hop Awards Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap Album Nominations American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Album Similar LL Cool J albums, Hip hop music albums | ||
Bigger and Deffer (BAD) is the second studio album by rapper LL Cool J and is remembered most for containing the first commercially successful "rap ballad", "I Need Love". It also contains the single "Go Cut Creator Go", which paid homage to his DJ, and the breakthrough single in the U.K. "I'm Bad". With over 3 million copies sold in the United States alone, it stands as L L Cool J's biggest career album.
Contents
In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums, while receiving mixed reviews from other critics. The front cover photograph on the album was taken in front of Andrew Jackson High School in Queens (which LL Cool J attended before dropping out in the 10th or 11th grade), and the back cover was shot in his grandmother's basement where he was living at the time. Both images were shot by Glen E. Friedman.
Ll cool j i m bad
Track listing
All songs written by J.T. Smith, Bobby Ervin, Darryl Pierce and Dwayne Simon, except where noted.
- "I'm Bad" – 4:39
- "Kanday" – 3:59
- "Get Down" – 3:23
- "The Bristol Hotel" – 2:43
- "My Rhyme Ain't Done" – 3:45
- ".357 – Break It On Down" (Smith/Mark Jordan/Ervin/Pierce/Simon) – 4:05
- "Go Cut Creator Go" – 3:57
- "The Breakthrough" – 4:04
- "I Need Love" (Simon/Steven Ettenger/Ervin/Smith) – 5:23
- "Ahh, Let's Get Ill" – 3:45
- "The Do Wop" – 4:59
- "On the Ill Tip (Skit)" – 0:31
Songs
1I’m Bad4:40
2Kanday4:00
3Get Down3:23