In 1987, a teenage LL Cool J met Simone Smith through a mutual friend. "I was just 19, something like that. It was Easter and I was driving down the block in my mother's car," LL Cool J recounted.

LL Cool J, who is performing during ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ with Ryan Seacrest, has four children, including three daughters and one son, who he shares with wife Simone Smith.

LL Cool J says some timely dream-delivered encouragement from the late Phife Dawg proved pivotal in the early development of ...

LL COOL J's fans are embracing his new album ... the first time that hip-hop ever went to Maine. So, it'll be like 20 kids in a gymnasium with a few teachers and a couple of parents, and ...