LL Cool J Finds His Team For “Bigger and Deffer” Album | Bigger and Deffer 35 | LL Cool J Archive

LL Cool J Finds His Team For the “BAD” Album | Bigger and Deffer 35 | LL Cool J Archive
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After dominating the Rap scene In 1985 with his critically and commercially acclaimed album “Radio”, LL was ready to let go of the B-Boy style that revolutionize hip-hop in the early 80s. LL looked to further push the envelope by creating what is now known as of the greatest Hip-Hop albums of all time “Bigger and Deffer”. This is Bigger and Deffer 35, A video series honoring the 35th anniversary since its release on May 29, 1987.
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If radio made him a superstar than Bigger and Deffer made LL Cool J a household name. At the height of his career Bigger and Deffer carried him into rap superstardom, going triple platinum and becoming one of the most successful hip-hop albums to that point. It showcased a young artist who was successfully elevating his game to the next level. The album covered all its bases. It had displays of uncut verbal fire, stylistic exhibitions, light-hearted storytelling rhymes with a slight edge. It even had songs designed to appeal to women, which became an important part of LL’s sustained success by the 1990s and 2000s.
LL presented himself as a 19-year-old who was living the dream. He was a rapper with movie-star good looks and a passion for rhyming who was able to lyrically bang with the best of them. It was an album that appealed to everyone. He was bigger and deffer (B.A.D.), and he knew it, and he wasn’t shy about letting you know just how bad he was.
The album’s production was handled by the L.A. Posse, a Los Angeles-based production collective made up of Darryl “Big Dad” Pierce, Dwayne “Muffla” Simon, and Bobby “Bobcat” Earvin. Here they mostly used sample-based production, leaning heavily on Ultimate Beats and Breaks records. However, they also utilized drum machines to put together some of the stand-out tracks on the album.
DJ Bobcat comments on his process with Bigger and Deffer:
“I flew out to New York as part of The L.A. Posse to work with a Def Jam artist named Breeze. It was myself, Big Dad, Muffla and DJ Pooh. Breeze was supposed to be the up and coming LL, so Russell Simmons signed him ... So we were working with Breeze and doing such a great job, that Russell asked us if we were interested in doing pre-production on LL’s next album. We said yes and started working on records with LL.”
Darryl Pierce comments
“It was epic because it was [LL],” Pierce says today. “It was a trip, man, because he was LL. He was already in our minds a superstar. We had butterflies and everything.”
At the time Def Jam Recordings co-founders Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons were going their separate ways. Rubin, who had produced LL COOL J’s Radio album and the Beastie Boys’ “Licensed To” LP for the iconic imprint, was no longer interested in working with Def Jam acts. Simmons, though, wanted LL to work on his second full-length project. Fortunately, Simmons had a solution.
After commuting between New York and Los Angeles, L.A. Posse eventually moved to New York, initially spending time in LL’s hometown of Queens before settling in Brooklyn as they worked on what would become Bigger and Deffer.
The differences between LL COOL J and the L.A. Posse proved instrumental in the album’s evolution. “We were West Coast dudes, LA dudes,” Pierce says. “We had a whole different vernacular. New York was a Hip-Hop culture. In LA, we had a gang culture. There was no Hip-Hop culture in LA. So when we’re getting to know each other and we’re talking about where we’re from, a lot of our conversations were telling and teaching him about the gang culture in LA.”
In addition to cultural differences, there were musical ones. Like Rubin, Muffla was proficient at the Roland 808 drum machine, the type of guy who, if you hummed him a beat, he could program it. Pierce helped out in a variety of roles, including writing and performing the cop part in “I’m Bad.” Bobcat had a different style of scratching than LL’s DJ, Cut Creator. Then there was DJ Pooh, who later wrote Friday with Ice Cube.
“Pooh was a lot of fun to work with, man,” LL COOL J says. “He’s creative, funny as hell. He’s one of the funniest dudes on the planet, man. Dude is hilarious.”
With his team intact LL Cool J was finally ready to make Bigger and Deffer with the hopes of breaking barriers.

[@jmckdekalb316]

That’s my favorite album

[@curtis75black]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 !! Bigger And Deffer is the shit today. Still holds up.

[@shaharaeatmon2415]

LL Cool J is still my favorite rapper and actor 35 more years is coming 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@Narripurplepassion28]

This awesome 💜🎶🎶

[@gibsonfranchise]

I love my big bro can’t wait for this new album 💿 with qtip as the producer

[@MrCbwTV]

It’s almost here!!!!

[@charleroy1]

Bang! Genius😑

[@МаркФедотов-п7ю]

Ese atuendo me vuelve loco fukada-jpp.monster loco contigo y tienes ese cuerpo curvilíneo, hiciste un buen trabajo modelándolo también. También me gusta el último atuendo. Me encantaw cómo los cinturones de liga se.

[@rashodlewis2918]

This was good mini documentary!