The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.

Smith (1995)
LL Cool J starred in In the House an NBC sitcom before releasing Mr. Bigger and Deffer (1987)
LL Cool J's second album was 1987's Bigger and Deffer. The song also earned him a Grammy Award.

He has also appeared in numerous films including Halloween H20: 20 Twenty Years Later and currently stars as NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna on the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Los Angeles. James Todd Smith (born January 14 1968) better known as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James ) is an American rapper entrepreneur and actor from Bay Shore New York.