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Bigger and Deffer

Bigger and Deffer
LL Cool J - Bigger and Deffer.jpg
Studio album by LL Cool J
Released May 29, 1987
Recorded 1986–1987
Studio Chung King House of Metal
(New York City)
Genre Golden age hip hop
Length 45:13
Label Def Jam, Columbia, CBS Records
CK 40793 (North America)
450515 (international)
Producer LL Cool J, L.A. Posse, DJ Pooh
LL Cool J chronology
Radio
(1985)Radio1985
Bigger and Deffer
(1987)
Walking with a Panther
(1989)Walking with a Panther1989
Singles from Bigger and Deffer
  1. "I'm Bad"
    Released: June 13, 1987
  2. "I Need Love"
    Released: July 22, 1987
  3. "Go Cut Creator Go"
    Released: October 15, 1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars
Robert Christgau C+
Q 3/5 stars
Rhapsody (favorable)
Rolling Stone 2.5/5 stars
Spin (favorable)
Trouser Press (mixed)
Yahoo! Music (favorable)

Bigger and Deffer (BAD) is the second studio album by rapper LL Cool J and is remembered most for containing the first commercially successful "rap ballad", "I Need Love". It also contains the single "Go Cut Creator Go", which paid homage to his DJ, and the breakthrough single in the U.K. "I'm Bad". With over 3 million copies sold in the United States alone, it stands as L L Cool J's biggest career album.

In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums, while receiving mixed reviews from other critics. The front cover photograph on the album was taken in front of Andrew Jackson High School in Queens (which LL Cool J attended before dropping out in the 10th or 11th grade), and the back cover was shot in his grandmother's basement where he was living at the time. Both images were shot by Glen E. Friedman.

All tracks written by J.T. Smith, Bobby Ervin, Darryl Pierce and Dwayne Simon, except where noted.

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone


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