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and Columbia Records. It features the hit single “I’m Bad”, and the first commercially successful "rap ballad", "

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". It also contains the track "Go Cut Creator Go", which paid homage to his DJ. Other tracks like “Kanday”, “The Do Wop”, “My Rhyme Ain’t Done”, “The Breakthrough”, and “The Bristol Hotel” were also popular with fans, and helped make the album a hip-hop classic. With over two million copies sold in the United States alone, it stands as one of LL Cool J's biggest career albums. ''Bigger And Deffer'' dominated the summer of 1987, spending 11 weeks at number one on the Billboard

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chart while also reaching number 3 on the

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''s 100 Best Rap Albums. The cover photo was taken in front of Andrew Jackson High School in

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(from which he dropped out), while standing on the hood of his Audi 5000, and the back cover was shot in his grandmother's basement (his residence at the time). Both images were shot by

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Track listing

All tracks written and produced by LL Cool J and L.A. Posse, except where noted.

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Singles

Certifications

References

{{Authority control 1987 albums LL Cool J albums Def Jam Recordings albums Albums recorded at Chung King Studios