This is one of four covers for The Source Magazine's 20th Anniversary issue. Another 1/4 of the quartet features Nasty Nas. The other two? Unknown. Maybe they did it this way for a reason. Im sure they did, actually.

This cover comes JUST in time for Uncle L. In case you Tri-State folks didn't know, LL has the top spot on Hot 97's playlist.  Wow what a coincidence! Sounds like some good ol PR. What song, you ask? That corny, crappy joint called "Baby" -- with that stupid chant-of-a-hook that is effortlessly sung by The Dream. Surely there is something going on here, because nobody likes that stupid song. In any event, the "G.O.A.T" is gracing one of four covers, and like I said before, Nas has the other. If the two remaining covers reflect respectable MCs-- not one of these stupid rappers like Lil Boosie coon-cheesing with white crud in the cracks of his mouth-- then surely The Source is trying to show everyone that they can go back to their respectable roots.

Why do so many dub LL the G.O.A.T? Because one of his album titles says so? It's true that he's been around for over two whole decades. Been with IDJ from the get and through the years he's watched them lose their hip-hop swag. This will be his 13th album. Longevity in the game is something I can't deny him, but that doesn't mean you're the greatest rapper ever, of all time, to ever live, to roam the earth-- whatever. If it's that easy, then I guess if Fab keeps making songs for chicks going into 2020, he's going to be tagged the new G.O.A.T. ... Riiiight.  But then, every rapper think he's the G.O.A.T.

And when LL's album flops, he wont have HOV to point the finger at, now will he? I know I'm talking a good one about a legendary MC, but all that whining and complaining he did about Jay-Z running Deaf Jam made me look at LL as just another bitch-made industry n*gga. An old and bitter rapper who was jealous that a dude that came into the game way after him nabbed a high-profile position BEFORE he did. And on his very own label. One that he'd been on since day one.