James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), better known by his stage name LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper, actor, author and entrepreneur from Queens, New York.
 He is known for such hip hop hits as "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Rock The Bells" and "Mama Said Knock You Out", as well as romantic ballads such as "Doin' It", "I Need Love", "Around the Way Girl" and "Hey Lover".
Jeff Bhasker (also known as Billy Kraven and U.G.L.Y.) is an American record producer, songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist.
 He collaborated with rapper and producer Kanye West on the albums "808s & Heartbreak", "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", and "Watch the Throne".
 He has won Grammy Awards for the songs "Run This Town" by Jay-Z, "All of the Lights" by Kanye West, "We Are Young" by Fun.
, and "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson.
 Bhasker received the 2016 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical for co-producing Mark Ronson's album "Uptown Special" and producing Nate Ruess's album "Grand Romantic" among other records.
"Party" is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé for her fourth studio album, "4" (2011).
 It features guest vocals from American rapper André 3000 and uncredited vocals from Kanye West, and was released by Columbia Records as the fourth single from "4" on August 30, 2011.
 The song was written by Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker and Beyoncé, with the production being handled by Beyoncé and West and was co-produced by Bhasker.
 A midtempo R&B song, "Party" exhibits elements of the 1980s funk and soul music, and samples the 1985 song "La Di Da Di", written by Dexter Mills, Douglas Davis and Ricky Walters.
 It recalls the work of New Edition and Prince, among others.
 Built on a 808-retro beat, multi-tracked harmonies, and a smooth groove, the song's instrumentation includes slow-bouncing synthesizers, keyboard tones, and drums. Lyrically, "Party" is about being "in the mood for some loving."
 In his rap verses, André 3000 references milk and gets philosophical about his own career.
 "Party" was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 54th Grammy Awards.
The Black Weblog Awards is an online awards event which recognizes bloggers of African-American descent for their contributions in blogging, video blogging, and podcasting.
 The Black Weblog Awards started in 2005 with 11 categories, and has now grown to include 36 categories.
 Former Black Weblog Award winners include blogger and radio host B. Scott, comedian and YouTube personality Elon James White, comedian, television host, and New York Times best-selling author Baratunde Thurston, LGBT activist and media personality Keith Boykin, hip-hop artists D-Nice and Kanye West, musician and DJ Questlove, and model/media personality Tyra Banks.
 Other Black Weblog Award winners have also appeared in traditional media outlets, such as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and NPR.
The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards were held on August 25, 2013 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
 Marking the 30th installment of the award show, they were the first to be held in New York City not to use a venue within the borough of Manhattan.
 Nominations were announced on July 17, 2013.
 Leading the nominees were Justin Timberlake and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with six, followed by Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, and Robin Thicke with four.
 Justin Timberlake was the big winner on the night with four awards, including Video of the Year for "Mirrors" and the Michael Jackson Vanguard Award.
 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift were also among the winners of the night.
 The ceremony drew a total of 10.1 million viewers.
The 54th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 12, 2012, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles being broadcast on CBS.
 LL Cool J hosted the show.
 It was the first time in seven years that the event had an official host.
 Nominations were announced on November 30, 2011 on prime-time television as part of "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!
 – Countdown to Music's Biggest Night", a one-hour special broadcast live on CBS from Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live.
 Kanye West received the most nominations with seven.
 Adele, Foo Fighters, and Bruno Mars each received six nominations.
 Lil Wayne, Skrillex, and Radiohead all earned five nominations.
 The nominations were criticised by many music journalists as Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" missed out on a nomination for Album of the Year despite being highly critically acclaimed and topping many end of year charts.
 West's album went on to win Best Rap Album.
"Lift Off" is a song by Jay-Z and Kanye West featuring American recording artist Beyoncé.
 It was written by Kanye West, Jay-Z, Jeff Bhasker, Mike Dean, Bruno Mars and Seal, while production was handled by West, Bhasker, Mike Dean, Pharrell, Q-Tip, and Don Jazzy for Jay-Z' s and West' s collaboration album, "Watch the Throne" (2011).
 The song was rumored to be released as the lead single from the album containing additional vocals by Bruno Mars.
 However, Mars never appeared on the song and it was sent to urban contemporary radio on August 23, 2011.
The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays in Australia.
 Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each album and EP's weekly physical and digital sales.
 In 2013, thirty-six albums claimed the top spot, including Michael Bublé's "Christmas" and Pink's "The Truth About Love", both of which started their peak positions in 2011 and 2012, respectively.
 Sixteen acts achieved their first number-one album in Australia: Bruno Mars, Flume, Of Monsters and Men, Foals, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Birds of Tokyo, Daft Punk, Queens of the Stone Age, Kanye West, Harrison Craig, Karnivool, RÜFÜS, Boy & Bear, Lorde, Dami Im and Taylor Henderson.
American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars has written and recorded songs for his studio albums, "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" (2010) and "Unorthodox Jukebox" (2012), and has written songs for other singers.
 The Smeezingtons (Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine) worked in the majority of the songs in Mars' debut studio album, including writing "Count on Me" and "Marry You" together.
 The team collaborated with Khari Cain and Khalil Walton on the album's lead single "Just the Way You Are", peaking at number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
 Mars explained "I wasn't thinking of anything deep or poetic.
 I was telling a story."
 Mars co-wrote and co-produced the song "Talking to the Moon" with Grammy Award winning producer Jeff Bhasker.
 The single "Grenade", was conceptualised after Mars heard an unreleased track with similar lyrical themes.
 Mars' follow-up album, in addition to reunite collaborators from his previous album, such as The Smeezingtons and Jeff Bhasker, included new composers, such as Mark Ronson and Emile Haynie.
 All of these producers worked on the lead single "Locked Out of Heaven".
 The song concerns a relationship infused with positive emotion and good sex.
 The idea behind the second single, "When I Was Your Man", is the regret of letting a girl get away.
 Several of the songs were written solely by his production team, including the lead single, "If I Knew" and the single "Gorilla"
Paul Richard Epworth (born 25 July 1974 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire) is an English music producer, musician, and songwriter.
 His production and writing credits include Adele, Rihanna, and Maxïmo Park amongst many others.
 On 12 February 2012 at the 54th Grammy Awards, Epworth won four Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year, Album of the Year (Adele's "21"), and Song of the Year and Record of the Year (for "Rolling in the Deep").
 He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song alongside Adele, for "Skyfall".
 His sister Mary Epworth is a singer and songwriter.
 He is a member of the Music Producers Guild.
 He also has a record label, Wolf Tone, whose artists include Glass Animals, Rosie Lowe and Plaitum.
 He has won 'Producer of the Year' at the BRIT Awards three times, the most recent in 2015.
 At the 59th Grammy Awards in 2017, Epworth won a Grammy for Album of the Year for his work on Adele's 25".

Question: During this Grammy Awards event, where Kanye West, Adele, and Bruno Mars had several nominations and West's album had a prestigious award, which American rapper, actor, author and entrepreneur from Queens, New York was the host?
Answer: LL Cool J