LL Cool J has announced his first new studio album since 2013 Authentic. The new album, Power (“Frequencies of Real Creative Energy”), out September 6 via Def Jam Recordings and Virgin Music Group. Guests on the album include Rick Ross and Fat Joe (on the recent single “Saturday Night Special”), as well as Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Saweetie, Nas and more. Check out the new video for the LP's “Passion” below.
A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip is produced Power. “We're talking about 14 straight fire tracks, all done by me and the one and only Q-Tip,” LL Cool J said in a press statement. “When you listen to this album, you don't just hear music, you experience a whole new atmosphere, a whole new level of artistic passion.”
Read about LL Cool J in the Clover Hope feature “The Evolution of the Hip-Hop Hunk.”
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Power:
01 Spirit of Cyrus [ft. Snoop Dogg]
02 THE POWER
03 Saturday Night Special [ft. Rick Ross and Fat Joe]
04 Black Code Suite [ft. Sona Jobarteh]
05 Passion
06 Challenges [ft. Saweetie]
07 Post Modern
08 December 30
09 Runnit Back
10 Huey in the chair [ft. Busta Rhymes]
11 Basquiat Energy
12 Praise Him [ft. Nas]
13 Murdergram Deux [ft. Eminem]
14 The Oath [ft. Mad Squablz, J-S.A.N.D. and Don Pablito]
