LL Cool J Recalls Once Having Ownership In Def Jam Recordings And FUBU

“That first contract, at the time, we split the publishing,” LL Cool J told hosts Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy. “They gave me like $50,000. My first single I ever made I didn’t have a contract.”

He continued, “It was just like, ‘Yo, let’s go get it and we’ll figure it out.’ Sometimes you gotta be willing to crawl over the barbed wire fence with no shirt on to get what you want.”