Question: what movies does ll cool j die in

title: LL Cool J
text: He began rapping at the age of 9 , influenced by the hip - hop group The Treacherous Three . In March 1984 , sixteen - year - old Smith was creating demo tapes in his grandparents ' home . His grandfather , a jazz saxophonist , bought him $2,000 worth of equipment , including two turntables , an audio mixer and an amplifier . Smith stated that `` By the time I got that equipment , I was already a rapper . In this neighborhood , the kids grow up in rap . It 's like speaking Spanish if you grow up in an all - Spanish house . I got into it when I was about 9 , and since then all I wanted was to make a record and hear it on the radio . '' This was at the same time that NYU student Rick Rubin and promoter - manager Russell Simmons founded the then - independent Def Jam label . By using the mixer he had received from his grandfather , Smith produced and mixed his own demos and sent them to various record companies throughout New York City , including Def Jam .