LL COOL J will not be solely one of many GOAT rappers however he coined the time period.

During an look on Late Night With Seth Myers, LL introduced all of the receipts for introducing GOAT into the popular culture lexicon. When Meyers stated that LL claimed to be the primary to make use of acronyms he was fast to appropriate him.

“Claim? Claim? Claim? Interesting way to phrase that — claim,” LL responded, evidently perturbed by the host’s phrasing.

“I’ll tell you where I got it. I got Greatest of All Time from Muhammad Ali, and I got G.O.A.T. from Earl Manigault who was a street basketball player in New York. I took the two together and I made the acronym G.O.A.T. — Greatest of All Time, and then it just kind of spread throughout the world,”  LL continued

He went on to elucidate  that “the first time it appeared in the world” was when he launched his eighth studio album, G.O.A.T. that includes James T. Smith: The Greatest of All Time.

On “4,3,2,1,” from his 1997 album Phenomonon which featured Method Man, Redman, and DMX, with Canibus and Master P on the remix, LL dropped the lyric that modified how we view the perfect in each area ceaselessly.

He rapped, “Watch your mouth, don’t ever step out of line/LL Cool J, ni**a, greatest of all time.”