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LL Cool J wins over the ladies
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
LL Cool J (AKA James Todd Smith) just finished an hour-long strip tease.
Onstage at the Cokefest, he took the stage in his requisite baggy pants topped with a long sleeve T-shirt. Hanging from his belt loop was a long silver chain connected to his back pocket. Occasionally pausing next to his gold mic stand with giant gold LL COOL J running down the side, Smith ripped through his material. He touched on his old standards (“Going Back to Cali”) and moved all the way through to new unreleased material (“Shake the Keys”).
And as he moved through the years, he peeled off the layers. Off went the shirt down to a clean white tank undershirt. Then reached into his pockets, pulling out wads of one-dollar bills, tossing them into the crowd. All the time pulling at his tee, finally stretching it off his shoulder.
(We’ve forgotten how good Smith — whose nickname is short for Ladies Luv Cool James — looks up close. From our vantage point, we would suggest that his book “LL Cool J’s Platinum Workout: Sculpt Your Best Body Ever with Hollywood’s Fittest Star” is no hyperbole.)
Declaring that he was going to “turn this stage into a club” Smith pulled women out of the VIP section and onto the stage, including the Star94 traffic reader, Shannon Holly.
(And it wasn’t just the female contingent rocking out. In the front row of the VIP section, wrapped in a clear Coke logo’d poncho, with his ball capped stuffed with Smith’s dollar bills, was Emanuel Lewis of television’s Webster fame.)
After each song, the dancing females would leave the stage, each snagging a hug from Smith. We couldn’t hear what they were saying to him, but he sweetly replied to each of them, “You, too.” Ahhh LL.
As he was flying through “Shake the Keys” a new song he’s working on in the studio, he hollered, “Do you want it? Should I flaunt it?” in what we can only assume was a rhetorical fashion. And off went the shirt, leaving him clad in just his baggy blue jeans hanging dangerously far down, revealing a wide swatch of white stretchy material.
Shortly thereafter, the set ended to the appreciative roar of the crowd, leaving us to wonder … boxers or briefs?
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