LL Cool J's egotism is his sex appeal and his greatest strength. He'd been on top of the world since he started scoring hits as a teenager but anyone who has been in the rap game for five years, as he had been when Mama arrived, has something to prove. So he came out swinging--literally--with the title track, which claims boxing trash talk as proto-rap and turns it into a declaration of on-going mastery. Beyond that, Mama, with its ultra-hard Marley Marl production, … mehrpumps up his love-man rep (the sweetly affectionate "Around the Way Girl" and an even hornier remix of "Jingling Baby") and his ego (pretty much everything else). It's mostly just old-school boasting but damn if it isn't deserved. --Douglas Wolk weniger
1 - Boomin' System
2 - Around The Way Girl
3 - Eat 'em Up L Chill
4 - Mr Good Bar
5 - Murdergram… mehr
6 - Cheesy Rat Blues
7 - Farmers Blvd. (Our Anthem)
8 - Mama Said Knock You Out
9 - Milky Cereal
10 - Jingling Baby
11 - To Da Break Of Dawn
12 - Six Minutes Of Pleasure
13 - Illegal Search
14 - Power Of God
15 - Mama Said Knock You Out
16 - Mama Said Knock You Out weniger