Exit 13 * (CD)

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• Release Date: September 9, 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Def Jam (USA)
• UPC: 602517753044
• WAPI (Tower ID): 112188955
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #133288 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
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Personnel: Brian Mavi, Starr Blackshere, Arnold Tucker, Tesa Williams, Sharise Jackson, Paula Hollaway, Nahemma Harper, Lyric Tucker, Lawrence Newton, Jennifer Burton, El-Ahmad Barack, Lil' Mo, Barbara Walker, Charlene Hollaway (vocals); Dave Clauss (guitar); Thomas Flanagan (sitar); Tamae Lee, Luigi Mazzochi, Ghislaine Fleischmann, Igor Szwec, Emma Kummrow, Olga Konopelsky, Gregory Teperman, Charles Parker (violin); Alexandra Leem, Peter Nocella, Davis Barnett (viola); Jennie Lorenzo (cello); Greg Riley (tenor saxophone); Matt Gallagher, Mike Jarosz, Jon Virtue (trumpet); Paul Arbogast (tenor trombone, bass trombone); Dan Paul (piano); Infamous (keyboards); Paul Gehman (bass instrument); Brian Farr (drums); Leonard Sideman (tabla); David Nelson (timpani); Scratch (scratches); Mari Koda (background vocals); Brent Behrenshausen, Zach Larimer, Mark Figueroa, Gabriel Staznik, Frank Hill.

Audio Mixers: Jaycen Joshua; Dave Pensado; Glen Marchese; Marley Marl; Brian Stanley.

Arranger: Larry Gold.

The 13 in LL Cool J's latest LP represents the number of albums that he's recorded for Def Jam, the label he helped build from the ground up dating back to 1984. Much like Ice Cube and other aging hip-hop stars who have crossed over to mainstream celebrity, LL has little to prove but still plenty of talent to burn. As he says on "Get Over Here," "It ain't where ya from, it's how hot you are," and the man they call Todd Smith liberally borrows production styles from hip-hop's ever-expanding geography, while throwing in the occasional history lesson. Opener "Old School New School" is rousing and boastful, feeling awfully similar to a Kanye West cut off GRADUATION. He then heads down south for "Over Here"'s stutter-step bounce (and the phenomenal, drumline-centric "American Girl"), and goes literally global via the seductive Indian inflections of "I Fall In Love." But the highlight is "Ringtone M.," a minimalist track backed by a verse from genre pioneer Grandmaster Caz. EXIT 13 demonstrates that LL's influence has become genre- and era-blind, and as an MC, his flow is still as crisp, confident, and commanding as ever.

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