Why LL Cool J is glad Trump won't attend historic Kennedy Center Honors

So, I’m glad about that," he toldEllen DeGeneresonEllen.

“It would’ve been tough for me,” he said.

“No one asked me to be their political activist, savior,” the rapper added.

So I’m not feeding into that, I’m not feeding into the machine."

But Cool J did want to discuss “the atmosphere in America.”

Cool J emphasized that he doesn’t want to bash or blame anybody.

“People have the right to feel what they want to feel,” he said.

Those are your choices.

You have the right to make those choices.

But we just have to remember that this is one country."

DeGeneres added that “we’re one planet,” and Cool J agreed.

“We need to understand that we cannot mess around with this world.

This is the only place that we all have to live,” he said.

The event will be broadcast on CBS beginning at 9 p.m. Watch LL Cool J onEllenabove.