Watch Busta Rhymes, Black Thought, D.M.C. & More Cover LL Cool J Classics at the Kennedy Center Honors

LL Cool J is hard as hell.

History was made earlier this month, when, for the first time in its 40 year history, The Kennedy Center honored a rapper. That rapper was GOAT candidate LL Cool J, who has had one of the most storied rap careers ever.

CBS finally aired the ceremony on Tuesday night.

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The Kennedy Center went all out to honor LL. First, they had The Roots frontman Questlove do the intro. During the intro, Questlove called LL's 45-second cameo in Krush Groove "one of the greatest, most important entrances in music history."

And that's when the show really began.

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Busta Rhymes and Spliff Star performed "Mama Said Knock You Out;" MC Lyte then came out and did "I’m Bad;” Black Thought rapped “It Gets No Rougher;” and then finally D.M.C. did the iconic "Rock the Bells."

It was a touching performance, full of great moments and even greater audience reaction shots, including this one of Rob Reiner throwing up an L sign:

Watch all the performances below.