LL Cool J Is Glad Hip-Hop Was ‘Embraced’ On ‘We Are The World’ Remake
‘When you get a call from Quincy Jones to collect up a coop, you collect it up, ‘ LL says of essay lyrics for good single.
By Jocelyn Vena, with stating by Jayson Rodriguez
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In box any one was wondering if Barbra Streisand and Kanye West could have honeyed strain together, they’ll find out when the star-filled reconstitute of “We Are the World” premieres Friday during the opening rite of the Olympics . Thanks to a little lyrics from hip-hop fable LL Cool J, the hip-hop village appears to be well represented on the lane, which will good earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
“Mr . [ Quincy] Jones only called me and asked me if I would take a shot at essay the hip-hop territory or the swat territory of the strain, ” LL Cool J told MTV News at BET’s “SOS Save Ourselves: Assistance for Haiti” telethon Friday night at Miami’s American Airlines Arena . “And I took a shot at it and available it.”
With the OK from Jones and Lionel Richie, LL afterwards sought the capitulation of his hip-hop contemporaries . “It seemed similar to the alternative artists which were there favourite it, ” he pronounced . “Will.I.Am, Wyclef, Kanye — a lot of people were there, and they all seemed to be onboard with it . So we went on and available it.”
LL was blissful which his peers favourite the lyrics, but he was even some-more gratified to see which stars similar to Celine Dion and Streisand were down with adding a little hip-hop season to the gift single.
“I’m only respected which I’m means to have a grant and sanctified, ” he pronounced . “When you get a call from Quincy Jones to collect up a coop, you collect it up . So if they would have not used it, it would have been all right . The point is to have the event to do it and to know which the income is going to go to Haiti and assistance a little people . From a hip-hop standpoint, yeah, it’s good to be a partial of it[ and which the alternative artists] didn’t contend, ‘Keep hip-hop out of it, ‘ but embraced it.”
Learn some-more about what you can do to assistance with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for some-more report, see Think MTV . Visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call( 877) 99-HAITI to have a concession now.
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