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Track listing Īll tracks written by James Todd Smith and Marlon Williams except otherwise noted. The hip hop duo Run the Jewels took their name from a lyric on the album's sixth track, 'Cheesy Rat Blues'. 246 on their updated list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked the album at No. In 2005, comedian Chris Rock listed it as the sixth greatest hip-hop album ever in a guest article for Rolling Stone. The album was included in Hip Hop Connection 's 'Phat Forty', a rundown of rap's greatest albums: 'The LP's title track proved to be the single of the year and probably LL's best record since ' I'm Bad', while 'Eat 'Em Up L Chill' and 'To Da Break Of Dawn' was the sound of Cool J getting his own back – and in style.' In 1998, it was listed in The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums. Poll creator Robert Christgau later named it among his 10 best albums from the 1990s. It could be Jamaican dub they're making here, if it weren't for LL's slipper lip.' Mama Said Knock You Out was voted the ninth best record of 1990 in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published by The Village Voice. In Mark Cooper's review for Q, he wrote, 'This 22-year-old veteran has lost neither his eye for everyday detail nor his sheer relish for words.' Select magazine's Richard Cook said, 'LL's stack of samples add the icing to a cake that is all dark, remorseless rhythm, a lo-fi drum beat shadowed by a crude bass rumble. In The New York Times, Jon Pareles wrote that Mama Said Knock You Out reestablished LL Cool J as 'the most articulate of the homeboys', sounding 'tougher and funnier' rapping about 'crass materialism' and 'simple pleasures'. LL Cool J won Best Rap Solo Performance at the Grammy Awards of 1991. The title song reached number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified gold by the RIAA. According to Yahoo! Music's Frank Meyer, Mama Said Knock You Out 'seemed to set the world on fire in 1990', helped by its hit title track and LL Cool J's 'sweaty performance' on MTV Unplugged.

The album was certified double platinum in the United States, having shipped two million copies. It was promoted with five singles, four of which became hits: 'The Boomin' System', 'Around the Way Girl', the title track, and '6 Minutes of Pleasure'. Mama Said Knock You Out was released on September 14, 1990, by Def Jam Recordings.

Ll cool j mama said knock you out professional#

(Our Anthem) (Feat.Release and reception Professional ratings Review scores It's mostly just old-school boasting, but damn if it isn't deserved.Ī7 Farmers Blvd. Beyond that, Mama, with it's ultra-hard Marley Marl production, pumps up his love-man rep (the sweetly affectionate 'Around the Way Girl' and an even hornier remix of 'Jingling Baby') and his ego (pretty much everything else). So he came out swinging-literally-with the title track, which claims boxing trash talk as proto-rap and turns it into a declaration of ongoing mastery. He'd been on top of the world since he started scoring hits as a teenager, but anyone who's been in the rap game for five years, as he'd been when Mama arrived, has something to prove. LL Cool J's egotism is his m.o., his sex appeal, his greatest strength.