LL Cool J 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 You Out", as well as romantic ballads such as "Doin' It", "I Need Love", "All I Have", "Around the Way Girl" and "Hey Lover". A two-time Grammy Award winner, LL Cool J has released 13 studio
Lewis Smith (actor) Lewis Smith (actor) Lewis Smith (born August 1, 1956) is an American actor. Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from Lookout Valley High School in 1974. Smith is best known for the role of Charles Main on the first and second part of "North and South" miniseries, He also played "Curly Bill" Brocious in the Kevin Costner film "Wyatt Earp". Smith co-starred as Perfect Tommy in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" and as trigger-happy National Guardsman "Earl Stuckey" in Walter Hill's "Southern Comfort" (1981). He appeared in the early sequences of "Love Child" playing