Bigger and Deffer

Bigger and Deffer
Studio album by LL Cool J
Released	June 11, 1987[1][2]
Recorded	1986–1987 Chung King House of Metal (New York City)
Genre	Golden age hip hop, new jack swing
Length	45:13
Label	Def Jam, Columbia, CBS Records CK 40793 (North America) 450515 (international)
Producer	L.A. Posse, DJ Pooh
LL Cool J chronology
Radio (1985) Bigger and Deffer (1987) Walking with a Panther (1989)
Singles from Bigger and Deffer
"I'm Bad" Released: May 13, 1987 "I Need Love" Released: July 22, 1987 "Go Cut Creator Go" Released: October 15, 1987

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Robert Christgau	C+[3]
Q	link
Rhapsody	(favorable) link
Rolling Stone	link
Spin	(favorable) link
Trouser Press	(mixed) link
Yahoo! Music	(favorable) link

Bigger and Deffer (BAD), is the second studio album by rapper LL Cool J and is remembered most for containing the first commercially successful "rap ballad", "I Need Love". It also contains the single "Go Cut Creator Go", which paid homage to his DJ, and the breakthrough single in the U.K. "I'm Bad". With over 3 million copies sold in the United States alone, it stands as L L Cool J's biggest career album.

In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums, while receiving mixed reviews from other critics. The front cover photograph on the album was taken in front of Andrew Jackson High School in Queens (which LL Cool J attended before dropping out in the 10th or 11th grade),^[4] and the back cover was shot in his grandmother's basement where he was living at the time. Both images were shot by Glen E. Friedman.

Track listing

All songs written by J.T. Smith, Bobby Ervin, Darryl Pierce and Dwayne Simon, except where noted.

1. "I'm Bad" – 4:39
2. "Kanday" – 3:59
3. "Get Down" – 3:23
4. "Bristol Hotel" – 2:43
5. "My Rhyme Ain't Done" – 3:45
6. ".357 – Break It On Down" (Smith/Mark Jordan/Ervin/Pierce/Simon) – 4:05
7. "Go Cut Creator Go" – 3:57
8. "Breakthrough" – 4:04
9. "I Need Love" (Simon/Steven Ettenger/Ervin/Smith) – 5:23
10. "Ahh, Let's Get Ill" – 3:45
11. "The Do Wop" – 4:59
12. "On the Ill Tip (Skit)" – 0:31

Chart history

Album

Singles

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