LL Cool J - Father Lyrics

I like it

Such a well put together song. That chorus is so powerful. And the choirs that use to sing back in those days were so on point

so many timeless master pieces after master pieces james. so many, but with this one right here man you just nailed it. best wishes from berlin germany. wow another 4 and a half years and you been there for us for 4 decades straight. hats off to an icon.

Hands down, his best track in an incredible career

This song was kinda wack

You bum

Clearly you have no empathy. Or compassion

Damn. I remember when this came out. I am getting old.

Mtv 😍 1997 😍 phenonom 😍

I remember this 😍

LL Cool J makes some good music. Definitely doesnt get the credit he deserves. Maybe he doesnt rap about killing and drugs enough. So sad but very true. He is hated for his good positive tracks...

Nobody can get shot 10 times in stomach and live to tell about it

seriously underrated album...

Takes me back to growing up like 10 listening to this bumpin this much respect

LL Cool J's Father song and music video is a classic. I like George Michael's Father Figure sample. RIP George Michael. I heard LL Cool J talking about his father treating him and his mother bad when LL Cool J was a kid. LL Cool J said at the end of the song that he forgives his father for abusing him and his mother. He should never forgive his father for treating him and his mother bad. I heard LL Cool J say that his father shot his grandfather 10 times in the stomach with a gun. He also shot a gun at LL Cool J's mother. I hate my father who's always been in my life. He's always yelled and cursed at me. My father hates me because I've never been successful at school. I've never kept a job a long time. I've never had a apartment. My father don't ever wanna believe that something is wrong with white people who have fired me from my jobs. My father believes something is wrong with me because I can't keep a full time job. I wish I didn't have a father. LL Cool J's Phenomenon album is terrible LOL. Album cover sucks LOL. I like the pictures inside the cd. I love LL Cool J.

GOD BLESS LL COOL J

Never giv up

😍😍😍😍

I was OBSESSED with this song as a teenager

2 Tunechi
"Father"
Father (Single) (2017)

Father Figure?

His BEST song in my opinion. Tragic and powerful lyrics. Speaking as a fatherless child, I definitely understand his pain. #UNDERRATED

#TBT MuchMusic Countdown February 13 1998

Dear LL Cool J . My name is Richard Welk iv and I am 63 years old . If that job is still open , I am available . I do not have much , but what I do possess , I will share with you .

real stuff

When it's real, it's real. I was really feelin' you on this one, James Todd. #anditsstillallgood

RIP George Michael

have not heard something so inspirational in a long while

Happy Dad's Day

som do coração e do passado e pra quem quer mudar de vida

He's a SURVIVOR. Be inspired people. Life will get better.

The censor kills the song

Every time I hear this song, my eyes fill up.........

Razor Blade listen to his song called BIG MAMA

Razor and blade?

Is it okay if I crash at ur place again? My parents missed Woodstock and I've been paying for it ever since... lol

 I saw my dad today. Way too late in life for him to be a father now, but I wished him well.

It's never too late! I don't know your story, but that's not something you wanna carry in your heart, because once he's dead, you might regret it DEEPLY. Forgiveness is part of self healing. Be blessed.

@James Buteau Thanks so much for your encouragement. I just saw him again this past Thursday and things went well. So I'm trying to focus on now and not what was. Thanks again!!

@Lakeeta Thomas You're very welcome, and I'm glad to hear that you're at least making an effort. Unfortunately majority of men who are fathers have no idea on how to be one, sometimes a helping hand without judging can turn things around. Thanks for sharing, and feel free to stay in touch. Be blessed.

My father came back into my life when i was 17 and i wish it never happened he had habit of coming in and out of my life

this song samples George michaels father figure in the background

No they definitely sample George. Looking Through Someone's Eyes (PM Dawn) came out in 1993 and Father (LL Cool J) was released in 1997. George Michael's Father Figure was of course released in 1987 a decade before this song. They both sample George Michael's brilliance who wrote, produced, and arranged the brilliant Father Figure. What else to expect from one of the most covered artist in the world with songs like Last Christmas and Careless Whisper. George was a true innovator, and influential to many in all genre's of music.

@Ruzaj Genesis Yes. George's music was and still is awesome.

TRUE THAT !!! 

luv it is that tamla man singing the background 

You've come a long way todd. Bless u.u have a lot to be proud of.

brilliant song

wow. and I thought my absentee father was shit.

I don't even know what my father looks like, never even seen a picture. But when I was a kid, this song helped me to realize that so many children who know their father,weren't better off.

My grandfather is my father im glad i have him

Realest shit he ever wrote

this around the time he came with his autobiography I make my own rules
its was riveting bio Im mean LL step fathers was a son of bitch Seriously

Thank God for My Grandfather, otherwise I wouldn't know what having a father felt like.

No grammy?

I played this song for my Dad once, and what did he do? Closed the door so I turned it up louder!

This is emotional. Better than rap nowadays.

☆ :-Loving are boy Cool J back to the old skool homie ☆

Sounds like a full life!

I'm gonna try goin on a 5-Day Spree of listening to nothing but LL Cool J

What's worse havin' ya pops there
then wakin' up one morning and ya pops not there
Or Never havin' them there, from the start
Feel like Diallo, Bullets entered my chest hit my heart
I've fallen, Ima Dead man whose just still breathin'
Won't lie sometimes I hear ya voice when I'm dreamin'
A mix of Denzil and Sydney Portier
Huh this is a true storia
To long for a song, but perfect for a book huh

Watchin' that lil kid in the park, playin' catch with his dad
In a way I'm half mad, Half Glad
Glad he ain't gotta feel the pain I'm Feelin'
Mad coz I was the one sittin' in that park from day to evenin'
Wonderin' will ya ever see the light of the day,
And come to ya senses that you got a son in BK
I feel like I'm plane crash'd into water, thinkin' everythin' be better if I just died
That's why I tryin' drown myself on purpose, not try'n survive
Yeah huh

[Chrous]
(All I ever Needed)
All I Ever Wanted
(All I ever Needed)
All I Ever Wanted
(All I ever Needed)
All I Ever Wanted
Is a Father Teach me how to jump shot
How to Fight?, how to survive on this block?
All I Ever Wanted
(All I ever Needed)
All I Ever Wanted
(All I ever Needed)
All I Ever Wanted

Pops Wherever da hell you are, Can't wait till you Die
No Tear Will come down my eye
Go to the funeral to see wat there said is true popz
That my face looks like yours popz
Honestly I hope not, I don't even wanna be you
The last thing I wanna do is look like you
Try my best to different from you in everywhere possible
Know what I'm Sayin' it's so volatile
but it's the truth I hate ya, you like a bullet tearin' my flesh apart
Thank ya popz, for breaking my heart
C'mon

So glad I have my loving dad living with me & my mom, his wife. I love you dad

Never knew ll's life was so hard b4 I heard this song....the fact that he grew up to be such a classy brotha after having such a rough child hood gave me hella respect for him.

i hear ya but there a site called who sample who check it out

sampling a beat or even part of a beat has nothing to do with his comment lol, it's still an old school hip hop song with too little views regardless..

fuck they have been top comment for 2 years am gonna take them off the top, THUMBS ME UP

great song simply epic so deep so true

this song is a sample you no

he sample GORGE MICHAL FATHER FIGURE FOR THIS SONG I HAD THIS SONG

i was going to dedicate this to my dad but my dad loved us

Classic

wickedly wicked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LL somehow managed to use the best song at that time and make it better! i love you LL!

3:51 is an epic image....

I want a pops! But I didnt need one to make me grow up as a man my moms did that for me!!

Sad song :(
but one of my fav from LL Cool J

It hurts me to see my favorite video only gets a new comment every 2 weeks...

LOL this is so funny ,this song have only 14857 vievs ,what's wrong with todays people listen new bullshit...Get back to good old days of real rap...

@ThePenetrator1000 LL is recounting his experience as he remembers it as a kid. His grandfather gets hit by a shotgun blast. I'm thinking what LL saw was 10 separate wounds from buck shot that spread out from the muzzle (likely a sawed-off shotgun). That's my guess. I doubt he'd shoot with a shotgun, then pull out a pistol and squeeze off ten rounds and hit with all ten.

Or, maybe not...??...but that's how I've figured it.

i love the truth

hands down my alltime favorite LL song.. loved it 13 years ago when it came out and its still just as good today.

Amazing song wow

Feelin it.....

shit .....best video and song ...LL.

dam this hit hard..stay cool. LL

brilliant song