LL Cool J soon led to an increase in multi-racial audiences and listeners, adding to the legacy of the album and hip hop as well. In 2017, LL Cool J became the first rapper to receive Kennedy Center Honors. LL Cool J James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, actor, author and entrepreneur from Queens, New York. He is known for such hip hop hits as "Going Back to Cali", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Rock the Bells" and "Mama Said Knock
Saigon (rapper) Saigon (rapper) Brian Daniel Carenard (born July 13, 1977), better known by his stage name Saigon, is an American rapper and actor. After years of delay due to former record label interference, his album "The Greatest Story Never Told" was released on Suburban Noize Records. He is also known for his appearances on the HBO television series "Entourage". Born to an African-American mother and a father from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saigon was raised in Spring Valley, NY and was sentenced to jail time at Napanoch’s Eastern Correctional Facility in the late 1990s, serving a sentence for first-degree assault after shooting at