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LL Cool J isn't waiting until he passes to smell the roses -- he's ordered himself a bouquet of Hip Hop flowers and the little card reads, "HE'S THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!"

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00:00And now, LL Cool J tells us who's the most important rapper that ever existed!

00:07LL Cool J is the most important rapper that ever existed.

00:10It's him!

00:12LL Cool J isn't waiting for anyone to do it for him.

00:15He's crowning himself as the greatest, most important rapper to ever walk the face of the earth.

00:20Yes! LL made the claim while on Apple Music's Le Code podcast.

00:25I'm gonna say this one humbly, but I really mean this.

00:27I think one day people are gonna wake up and realize that LL Cool J is the most important rapper that ever existed.

00:32And everyone agrees!

00:34No one. Zero people.

00:36Okay, maybe not.

00:38But LL lays out his case and he did do a lot of things first.

00:42This is the guy who introduced all the diamond and the ice and the champagne.

00:46This is the guy who introduced the love songs and all the love.

00:49LL Cool J did I Need Love in 1987. It was the first hip-hop love song.

00:53He changed what rap could be.

00:55As far as clothing becoming a thing in hip-hop, he's the guy who launched FUBU.

00:59If you're one of those people you want to say that Jay-Z or Kanye are like the greatest,

01:03they all came up on a label that he launched.

01:05Deaf Jam Records doesn't exist.

01:07Every artist that you can name, the biggest artists, the billionaire artists were launched on the label that I launched.

01:12And he's the first rapper to star on NCIS!

01:16So there's that.

01:17There's nobody that thinks LL Cool J is the greatest rapper. Nobody.

01:20We put a poll on the site.

01:22And 42% think he's most definitely the GOAT.

01:26And no, we don't know how many times LL voted.

01:29That's most important rapper ever!

01:32I truly believe one day people are going to say that.

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