LL Cool J wants to fix ageism in hip hop

LL Cool J has declared he’s challenging ageism in hip hop. The rapper wanted his new album The FORCE, his first release in a decade, to be “culturally relevant”. “When I told people, ‘Yo, I wanna do a culturally relevant album’ in the midst of all these (younger artists), people looked at me like I had nine heads,” LL told Billboard. “They looked at me like I was a hydra – a hydra! – looking at me crazy like that, not because of any ill will, but just ‘How can you do that?'” After working with f