All World is a great collection of LL Cool J's career hits, from the mid-eighties on forward. No matter what, these songs always seem to make me melt - whether they are sweet and suggestive like "I Need Love" and "Hey Lover" or whether they are fierce and funky like "Boomin' System" and "Mama Said Knock You Out."


GOAT? Maybe.   July 12, 2002
Omagus (Austin, Texas)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

In 1987, I was nine years old and this older kid that I knew gave me a bunch of 45s that he had. One of them changed my life forever. The record was by this guy named LL Cool J and the song was "I'm Bad." It was the first time I'd ever heard a hip hop record and I've been hooked (obsessed?) for the past 15 years.

Uncle L has gone through several incarnations and I really don't like anything that he's done since MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT (except for the brief period when the lion was re-awakened by Canibus) but fortunately all the classics are here: "Radio," "Rock the Bells," "Mama Said Knock You Out," and of course "I'm Bad" showcase the self-proclaimed baddest rapper in the history of rap itself, while he still speaks to the ladies with "I Need Love," "Jingling Baby," "Around the Way Girl" and depending on how you look at it, "Big Ole..."

Yeah, LL Cool J in 2002 isn't the same that was LL Cool J in 1991, but nothing great lasts forever. But his work changed my life and I can always relive that with this.


ugh. i wish i hadn't bought this...   August 3, 2004
fygmynt (macon, ga)
4 out of 23 found this review helpful

...mainly because i think less of LL as a person now, not necessarily as a rapper...

what a letdown. i ordered this for 75 cents (no joke) off half.com after watching ll cool j preach his way through deep blue sea. i got it because i remembered "mama said knock you out" and "going back to cali", and i remember liking them, but jeez, man, those are the only two tracks worth listening to on this entire friggin' cd. and this is the greatest hits? most upsetting of all is that j comes off as a huge jerk...the lyrics here are even more chauvinistic and disrespectful than i would have expected from a more typical street-rapper. some of the songs are scarcely listenable the message is so embarrassing. the good news is, of course, that "knock you out" is even more badass than i remember.


LL COOL J IS DEFINATELY ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME   January 4, 2006
Erol Atkins (JACKSONVILLE,FL USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

USUALLY WHEN THE BEST RAPPERS COME MIND, I THINK OF JAY Z OR NAS.....BUT THE OTHER DAY, I RAN INTO THIS CD AND I WAS LIKE, WAIT A MIN. LL COOL J IS ONE OF THE HARDEST WORKERS IN THE RAP INDUSTRY....HES BEEN AROUND FOR MORE THAN 15 YEARS GIVING PEOPLE GREAT MUSIC TO LISTEN TOO AND THE GREATEST THING IS THAT HE COULD RAP AND MAKE R&B ON HIS ALBUMS WHICH NO RAPPER DOES THEN AND DEFINATELY NOW.....IF YOU WANT HARDCORE RAP TO LISTEN TO, YOU GOT (RETURN OF JACK THE RIPPER) , IF YOU WANT R&B, YOU GOT LOUNGIN (REMIX)............I THINK HE SHOULD RECIEVE SOME KIND OF LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD IF HE HASNT ALREADY.....WELL BEFORE I GO, HERES MY OWN (BEST OF LL COOL J) CD IF ANYONE WANTS TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER ON ONE CD.......ITS GREAT FROM BEGINING TO END

1. - (INTRO) FROM THE G.O.A.T. ALBUM
2. - (SAY WHAT) FROM THE VIOLATOR ALBUM
3. - (HELLO) FEAT AMIL
4. - (THE RIPPER STRIKES BACK)
5. - (I SHOT YA)
6. - (I'M THAT TYPE OF GUY)
7. - (WANNA GET PAID)
8. - (HEY LOVER)
9. - (LOUNGIN REMIX)
10.- (YOU AND ME) FEAT. KELLY PRICE
11.- (ALL NIGHT LONG) FEAT. MARY J. BLIDGE
12.- (HOT, HOT, HOT)
13.- (GET IT ON TONIGHT) FEAT. MONTELL JORDAN
14.- (YOU'RE IN MY HEART)
15.- (FATER)
16.- (LUV U BETTER)
17.- (DOING IT)
18.- (MIRROR MIRROR)
19.- (ONE SHOT AT LOVE)


I GUARANTEE THAT YOU WOULD ALSO LOVE THIS CD.....MOST OF THESE TRACKS ARE FROM HIS ALBUMS, BUT SOME ARE FROM OTHER ARTISTS ALBUMS.......IF YOU CAN GET ALL OF THESE TOGETHER, THEN YOU HAVE A REALLY GOOD CD.......THANKS