Bigger and Deffer

Bigger and Deffer (1987) is an album by rapper LL Cool J; features "I Need Love" and "I'm Bad."

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1987 - Rapper - LL Cool J

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"I Need Love" is by no means the first rap love song. The Sugarhill Gang—who made the first rap hit "Rapper's Delight" in 1979—had also had a hit three years earlier with "The Lover in You." Compared to this one—as well as to Whodini's "You Take My Breath Away"—"I Need Love" is rather sappy.

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Other songs on the album are worth noting. "The Bristol Hotel" is about a factual location and the plight of the hookers who frequent it. "The Do-Wop" and "Go Cut Creator Go" both feature 50s rock-n-roll backgrounds. Finally, "The Breakthrough" is a singularly harsh song which—unlike the seven which precede it on the album—has a hard, stiff beat and contains a single, lengthy verse not interrupted by a chorus. As the song immediately preceding "I Need Love," it serves as a kind of "bridge" to that song, in which he must "use up" the hardness inside him before expressing his more tender side.

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