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G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) is the eighth studio album by American rapperLL Cool J, issued on Def Jam Recordings. It was released on September 12, 2000, and peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200. It was LL Cool J's first and, to date, only album to reach the #1 spot. G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) received generally positive reviews, At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on 12 reviews.
Production
LL Cool J prepared for the album by visiting the inmates at Rikers Island a week before writing material for the album. He returned to the basement of his grandmother Ellen Griffith's house to write some of the tracks.
"U Can't Fuck with Me" contains a diss on actor/singer Jamie Foxx, building on a feud between him and LL Cool J that started on the set of the 1999 movie Any Given Sunday.
There is a track called "Legendary Nigga" produced by Q-Tip which was not included on any version of G.O.A.T. A partial lyric of the song reads "You don't understand, I'm just the best that ever did it / When my physical form's gone, I'll spit it from the spirit".
There is an extended unreleased version of the intro running at 2:10.
Samples
The intro contains a sample from "The Promises of Yesterday" performed by Mad Lads.
The song "LL Cool J" contains a sample of "I Put a Spell on You" performed by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
"Farmers" contains a sample from "Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)" performed by The Temptations.
"Hello" contains elements of "Telephone" performed by Diana Ross
"You and Me" contains an interpolation from "You'll Never Know" performed by Hi-Gloss.
"Homicide" contains a sample from "Harposaurus" performed by Carlos Guedes.
"Ill Bomb" contains a sample from "I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over" performed by David Porter.