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 ...

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 ...

In August 2025, LL Cool J and his wife, Simone I. Smith, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary Vandana Pawa is a former contributor at PEOPLE. Christopher Rudolph is a contributing writer for ...

The king of crowd rockers is finally back (but don’t call it a comeback). LL COOL J has always been a force in pop culture, and now he’s set to elevate hip-hop culture with his 14th studio album, The ...

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," ...