iHeartRadio Music Awards host LL Cool on icon J.Lo: ‘I’m there for her’

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the day after Whitney Houston died.“It was just an unbelievable time,” the New York hip-hop icon told The Post. “Ken [Ehrlich, longtime Grammys producer,] was like, ‘What do we do?’ And I just said, ‘Let’s say a prayer.

Let’s address the elephant in the room … and embrace the crowd so that they feel the love and they can kind of take that weight off their shoulders.

And then after that, let’s celebrate them.’ ”A decade after that moving opening of the Grammys, LL will be presiding over — and performing at — the iHeartRadio Music Awards 2022 on Tuesday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

The ceremony, which will be broadcast live on Fox at 8 p.m., takes place just five days before the big daddy of all awards shows — the Oscars — on Sunday.Despite doin’ it and doin’ it well in previous hosting gigs, the rapper-actor isn’t interested in rocking the Academy Awards. “Nah, I don’t think so,” he said. “No disrespect … but I just really enjoy hosting music shows and just being closer to the music [world].