34 and same situation here. I definitely was ignorant to LL’s impact and how big he was a star. I was thinking bout LL when the Ice Cube discussion was happening yesterday. When I was 10 years old LL was a rapper but more of an actor to me. In my opinion you dont really understand and gauge musicians and their impacts in real time till you’re basically in High School and havin them lunch table debates. Yall gotta remember for folks our age at 10 years old we are seeing this man in Halloween H20, Deep Blue Sea, In Too Deep, Any Given Sunday, Charlies Angels, on top of having his own TV Show in The House during that same time period. Musicially during that time period he wasnt doing multi platinum numbers so he wasnt as big on the music side for us, but visually he was present thanks to film/tv. I remember seeing the Fatty Girl video and thinking “damn why they got his old *** on this?” He just seemed outta place there at that time period. Keith Murray as well. I remember him popping back up my round freshman year of High School with the J. Lo joints and “Luv U Better” but even then during that time period he was the old dude. Them Songs was decent but I couldn’t gauge what he was in the past at that moment in time. Im pretty sure there at 17-18year olds that only know Luda from FF movies and have little knowledge of how big of an artist he was.
