Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LL Cool J found love with his wife, Simone I. Smith, when they were teenagers. The rapper and host of the 2025 MTV Video Music ...

LL Cool J rapped about needing love, and he found it with his wife, Simone I. Smith. The rapper, actor and host of the 2025 MTV VMAs has been with Smith since he was a teenager. The pair first met in ...

LL Cool J will be in the spotlight when he hosts the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, September 7. The rapper previously hosted the show in 2022 alongside Nicki Minaj and Jack Harlow. When he’s ...

LL Cool J, a two-time Grammy Award winner, has never lost his rap bona fides. At age 56, the legend is rapping again on The FORCE — short for Frequencies of Real Creative Energy — his first album in ...

The "Murdergram" rapper will host the awards show for the second time on Sunday, Sept. 7 FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images LL COOL J revealed his pre-hosting rituals to PEOPLE, which includes ...

Fifty years after critics dismissed hip-hop as a passing fad, Grammy winner LL COOL J is taking viewers back to the genre's authentic New York roots with his new docuseries "Hip Hop Was Born Here," ...

LL Cool J found love with his wife, Simone I. Smith, when they were teenagers. The rapper and host of the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards met his longtime love in 1987 in New York City, and they dated for ...