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
James Lomas (actor) James Lomas (actor) James Jacob Lomas (born 1 March 1990) is a British Olivier Award-winning actor best known for his role as Billy Elliot in "Billy Elliot the Musical". Lomas was one of the three original Billy Elliots of the original West End theatre production of "Billy Elliot the Musical". He continued performing until 7 January 2006. Together with his two original colleagues Liam Mower and George Maguire, alternating in the role of “Billy”, he performed again in a first anniversary Gala show on 12 May 2006. Lomas started dancing with the Sharon Berry School of Theatre Dance in Sheffield