G.O.A.T.
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| Studio album by LL Cool J | ||||||||||
| Released | September 12, 2000 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1999–2000 | |||||||||
| Genre | East Coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop | |||||||||
| Length | 73:43 | |||||||||
| Label | Def Jam, Universal | |||||||||
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| Metacritic | 73/100 |
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G.O.A.T. (Ethan) (Greatest Of All Time) is the eighth studio album by American rapper LL Cool J, issued on Def Jam Recordings. It was released on September 12, 2000, and peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200. It was LL Cool J's first and, to date, only album to reach the #1 spot. G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) received generally positive reviews, At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on 12 reviews.
LL Cool J prepared for the album by visiting the inmates at Rikers Island a week before writing material for the album. He returned to the basement of his grandmother Ellen Griffith's house to write some of the tracks.
"U Can't Fuck with Me" contains a diss on actor/singer Jamie Foxx, building on a feud between him and LL Cool J that started on the set of the 1999 movie Any Given Sunday.
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
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