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LL Cool J, who walked the carpet with wife Simone Smith and daughter Samaria Smith, is set to present the Global Impact Award to "a very special artist" during the GRAMMYs telecast before introducing the the Hip-Hop 50 tribute performance honoring five decades of hip-hop, curated by Questlove. 

"I think it's about all generations. I think it's multigenerational. We're talking about a whole 50 years, we're not saying 50 years but we stopped 20 years ago. It's for everybody," LL Cool J said of the star-studded segment, featuring performances by Ice-T, Missy Elliott, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa, Method Man, Nelly and many more. "I think that this will be a way for people of all generations to

 kind of bond -- mom, dad, grandma, grandkids, everybody will be able to learn about hip-hop tonight. Introduce you to some new people, maybe some people you know the songs but don't know the artist. Maybe you know the artist but don't know the song, but tonight I think it will be a lot of fun."