In a new interview, LL Cool J admitted to being nervous about the response his 14th solo album The FORCE would get, saying that he had a hard time sleeping the night it dropped. However, when he checked social media, he was relieved by the positive response.

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),