Download: Lil' Kim - Hard Core 2K14

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Lil' Kim Stuns At New York Fashion Week

Of the few things that are certain (life, death, and taxes) most forget to list that being in the same room as Lil’ Kim will certainly change you for the better.
Last night, MADE and Up&Down hosted the iconic rapper, and it was nothing short of exciting. Familiar faces, like Jenna Lyons, Public School’s Maxwell Osborne, and Russell Simmons didn’t let the long days of fashion week keep them from enjoying Kim’s best throwbacks—”The Jump Off” included.

Photo Set 1 >  http://lilkimuk.tumblr.com/post/96803146880/new-pics-lil-kim-attends-new-york-fashion-week

Photo Set 2 > http://lilkimuk.tumblr.com/post/96806949630/new-pics-lil-kim-attends-new-york-fashion-week

Photo Set 3 > http://lilkimuk.tumblr.com/post/96822550250/new-pics-lil-kim-attends-new-york-fashion-week

New Music: Lil' Kim - Hot Nigga Freestyle

Hardcore Kim strikes again. After taking shots at Nicki Minaj on Beyoncé’s “Flawless (Remix)” and her own “Identity Theft,” Kimmy Blanco unleashes a firestorm over fellow Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda's single “Hot Nigga.”

But instead of going in on her rival, she shouts out Meek Mill and reveals that she “almost slapped a bitch about a week ago.”
Hear Kim blast off and look out for her Hardcore mixtape.

http://www.rap-up.com/2014/08/07/new-music-lil-kim-hot-nigga-freestyle/

New Music: Lil' Kim - Identity Theft (Nicki Minaj Diss)

Hot damn, here we go again. After hijacking Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj’s “Flawless (Remix),” the Queen Bee takes more shots at her rap rival on “Identity Theft,” calling her a “swagger jacker” and reclaiming her crown.

“It’s looking like I’m headed back behind bars again ’cause bitches want to start again and I ain’t wit’ the arguing / I’m jet chartering, fresh cardigan, gettin’ my Martha in, while these broke hos borrowing,” raps Kim.

“Anything you try to do, I done did it … The Queen’s back, bitches come get it.”

The single cover shows a New Jersey driver’s license for Kimberly Jones with Nicki’s face next to it.
Expect even more venom from Kim on her oft-delayed Hardcore mixtape. “Be careful what U wish for… #HardCoreMixtapeUpNext #TheQueenIsBack #QueenBee,” she said.

http://www.rap-up.com/2014/08/06/new-music-lil-kim-identity-theft/

New Music: Lil' Kim - Flawless (Remix)

Well, that was fast. Not even two days after Beyoncé dropped the official remix to “Flawless” with a no-holds-barred verse from Nicki Minaj, an irate Lil Kim stung back with a “Flawless” remix of her own.

Queen Bey and the Queen of Barbz proclaimed that they “woke up like this” in the original reimagined track, but the Queen Bee “woke up like diss,” taking aim at her longtime rival in rhyme.
“Am I trippin’ or did this Ho just say my name?/ Queen of rap, f–k outta here, Queen’s back, f–k outta here/ Time to get this rap b-tch up outta here,” raps Kim in response to a perceived slight from the “Anaconda” MC.

The new mother to daughter Royal Reign likely has a problem with the following line: “These b-tches washed up and ain’t no f–kin’ soap involved.”
Whether or not that line was indeed a shot directed at Kim, the Brooklyn rapper certainly let it work her into a lather.

“Damn, it’s a shame, I gave you the rope b-tch, I want you to hang,” she raps.

http://www.mtv.com/news/1888849/lil-kim-beyonces-flawless-nicki-minaj-diss/

Soundcloud Link & DL > https://soundcloud.com/lilkimofficial/beyonce-ft-lil-kim-flawless-remix

Lil' Kim - Beemixes (Vol. 3)

Download the new fan-made mixtape "Beemixes (Vol. 3). The 3rd installment in a series of mixtapes compiled of rare & classic Lil' Kim remixes. A must for any Lil' Kim fan!

Tracklisting:

1. Big Momma Thang (Stretch Armstrong Remix)
2. The Jump Off (G-Mix) (ft. Mobb Deep)
3. Kimnotyze (DJ Rasim Can Remix)
4. Suck My Dick (Bro Safari & UFO! Remix)
5. Can’t Hold Us Down (Jacknife Lee Remix) (ft. Christina Aguilera)
6. No One Else (Bad Boy Remix) (ft. Total, Foxy Brown, & Da Brat)
7. How Many Licks (Sicknote 2 Step Remix)
8. Sugar (Remix) (ft. Trick Daddy, Cee-Lo & Ludacris)
9. What’s Going On (Moby’s Version - Artists Against AIDS Worldwide)
10. Gimme More (The Kimme More Remix) (ft. Britney Spears)
11. In The Air Tonite (Soulforce Club Mix)
12. Hit ‘Em Wit Da Hee (Timbaland Remix) (ft. Missy Elliott & Mocha)
13. Whoa (True Visionary Extended Club Mix)
14. Download (Remix) (feat. The-Dream & Soulja Boy)
15. Lighters Up (Josh Harris Dirty Club Mix)
16. The Jump Off (Nappy Doggout Remix)
17. Realms of Junior M.A.F.I.A. (Remix/Part 2)
18. Queen Bitch (That Kid Chris Mix)

D/L: www.mediafire.com/download/cp98t2p498pg6b4/b3.zip

Throwback: Lil' Kim Q&A (Paper Magazine - May 1997)

In honor of Lil Kim's birthday today, we're saluting the Queen Bee by re-posting our May 1997 cover story on the rapper by bell hooks. The interview, which happened seven months after the release of Kim's breakout LP Hard Core, focuses mostly on the double standards that  female celebrities embracing their sexuality endure. Even in a post-Miley-VMAs world, many of the questions in this nearly 20-year-old q&a could still be posed to most overtly sexual female performers today. Still, the answers that Kim gives are refreshing and real -- show us a platinum-selling rap star today who would go on the record about enjoying anal sex in a national publication -- making Kim's voice here all the more important. Check out the interview below.

In pictures, Lil' Kim looks like the images that used to appear in the sleazy black porn magazine Players. As teenagers, we used to laugh at those pictures. Women in them were always "overdone." Sometimes they looked like raggedy drag queens -- a bit rough around the edges. As representations of the hyperfemme, they called out the lack of imagination in sexist, straight male fantasies. Naturally, it's been a bit puzzling to me to see "old" stuff revamped as new and daring. The only new thing happening here is that it took so long for a hip-hop girl to make the down-and-dirty talk pay her bills big-time. Mark my words. Long before Lil' Kim could speak, smart sluts of all ages were talking trash. To talk trash and get paid has always been harder for women than for men. This 21-year-old has gone where others have not been able to go, 'cause she's got the right dudes behind her.

And if you have a chance to see girlfriend up close and personal, you'll know why. Young, pretty and sweet -- just plain old-fashioned feminine -- Lil' Kim has the kind of innocence it's possible to work with and work over. It's always folks who've never been on the streets, who have never known down-and-out-nowhere-to-go, who believe innocence can't be found there. But it can, and Lil' Kim embodies it, having done her time on the streets. Her "real life" sex thing is just about pure and simple delight in the body. But when it comes to how the boys in charge package her, it's the same old shit  -- boring straight male porn fantasy.

More dangerous than any words that come out of Lil' Kim's mouth are the forces of repressive puritanical morality that seek to silence her. Before talking to Kim, I spoke with lots of so-called cool folks who were putting her down, calling her a "ho...nothing but a prostitute." Even the dudes who are into her gig -- fans of her debut album, Hardcore (Undeas/Big Beat/Atlantic), and her work with Junior M.A.F.I.A -- still see her as another version of "pussy galore": a freak for their pleasure. And then there are the boys who pump her up as "sexy feminism." Gimme a break! Ain't nothing wrong with sex work, 'cause a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. And every girl I know who is working a sex tip has her reasons, but it ain't about sexual freedom. It's about getting paid. Lil' Kim knows that. She's seen and done it all. She knows when it's fantasy and when it's real, when it's about getting paid or getting free.

bell hooks: We have a lot of things in common. We're both into being bad girls, into fashion, into talking on the down low. So I've been really pissed off: I've been talking to folks about you and they keep saying, "Oh, she's a ho." And I keep thinking, Well, all these dudes, when they're talking shit, they're not ho's. Nobody talks about John F. Kennedy being a ho 'cause he fucked around. But the moment a woman talks about sex or is known to be having too much sex, people talk about her as a ho. So I wanted you to talk about that a little bit.

Lil' Kim: Well for one, I can say that I do not have too much sex. I hardly have any sex, O.K.? A lot of people get the wrong perception of me. I talk about all that sex I was doing as something I went through in the past. I did all kinds of freaky things after every show.

bh: When did you start thinking of yourself as a sexual being who had a right to her sexual desire?

LK: I guess as soon as I started, really, which was in my late teens. But even before I was rappin', it was like whatever I wanted to do, I just did it. I became free with it, like, "Whatever, yo. I don't care if he tell his friends." 'Cause you know, when you're younger, it's like, "I don't want you to tell your family. No, don't tell your friends if we have sex." But now it's like, "We havin' sex. Tell whoever -- make sure you tell 'em how good I did it!"

bh: So I look at you and you look like you're about 12, and you are cute -- clearly a really naturally beautiful woman, Kim. But now, to what extent have you decided this is the image that you wanna project? Or is it the men behind you who are deciding this image?

LK: O.K., we all had a lot to do with my career; we all have our input. I would say that it was me who just started it, because I would have to do it and feel comfortable, you know what I mean? You can't really just make someone into something and it works all the time; that person has to be a natural.

bh: But I mean, you are just so fine in your natural self, but your image is all about excessive glamour.

LK: Well, you know what, when you're dealing with people in an industry that's all about making money, they push you farther than you really wanna go.

bh: Girlfriend, tell me about it. Don't I know it.

LK: And then when you're desperate and you really wanna make money, it might seem like this is gonna work. Whatever it is, you go with it.

bh: What was your line on Hardcore, "Take it up the butt"? Don't be funnin'. What do you think about that?

LK: I think it's real.

bh: Tell me what you mean when you say it's real -- that a lot of people are getting fucked in the butt?

LK: Exactly. I mean, there are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it. And I'm like, "Yeah, I take it in the butt. That's right. Whatever."

bh: A lot of people are talking about you as an example of sexy feminism, as a liberated woman. What do you think? Do you think you represent the liberated woman or the sexy girl of men's fantasies?

LK: Both. The reason why I say both is that we have been set back years -- everybody says that. Sometimes they say I set back women's liberation.

bh: I don't think that, but go ahead.

LK: I don't think that either. You wanna know why? Because we have people like Too Short, Luke Skyywalker [of 2 Live Crew], Biggie [Smalls], Elvis Presley, Prince, who are very, very, very sexual, and they don't get trashed because they like to do it. But all of a sudden, we have a female who happens to be a rapper, like me, and my doin' it is wrong. And 'cause I like doin' it, it's even more wrong because we've fought for years as women to do the same things that men are doing.

bh: My mother and other older generations felt that in exchange for the pussy, you should get marriage, you should get something. I'm not that kind of girl, though. I think real sexual liberation means that you're in charge of your pussy; you don't have to exchange it for anything.

LK: And sometimes it's not just exchanging; sometimes it's just having a sexual orgasm 'cause you love it and you need it.

bh: But those are two different things, don't you think?

LK: Yeah, I think they're two different things.

bh: See to me, one empowers a woman when she can say, "I want it and I'm having it for my pleasure."The other one, when you're having it for something else, that's not about power to me. But tell me why you might think it is.

LK: I feel money is power in certain senses. A lot of women out there are just givin' it away. And then there are the women that're selling their bodies. But they chose to do that. But this is how they make their money. And I don't see anything wrong with that.

bh: But now Lil' Kim, you talk about being real, but let's get real: Most women that are selling their pussies are not getting a lot of money.

LK: Then they shouldn't be doing it.

bh: So do you feel like getting a lot of money fast makes you hungry for more money?

LK: Yes it does, of course.

bh: That's why I say, Greed is a motherfucker.

LK: It's a motherfucker. Especially when you're used to having shit. And let me tell you something: It's always nice to want money and keep doin' what you gotta do to get it, but do not be greedy. That's one thing about me: I'm not greedy. I buy things for my friends if I buy them for myself. I make sure my friend's rent is paid.

bh: How do you feel about porn?

LK: I really wanna address that. Like I said, I'm a sexual woman. When they turn on the spotlight, it just makes me wanna get down.

bh: Were you into porn yourself?

LK: Of course. I'm still into porn. I love to watch 'em, because for one, that's the safest type of sex you can have. And not only that, it introduces you to many sexual positions that you can
do with your partner.

bh: What do you say to those feminists who would say, "But look at how porn encourages men to hate women, etc., etc."?

LK: I don't think it encourages men to hate women. And you're seeing some women like it. You can't treat every woman like that; some women don't like that type of sex. If somebody's trying to force me to be in a porno, I would never do it. For one, I'm an artist that's making money from my music, and people know my music is tight. If I would do that, there would be no other place for me to go, 'cause people wouldn't wanna hear that I'm just doin' porn. They're really into what I'm saying. But a lot of people just wanna see me naked, see me having sex with different men and bababa. And that's not me.

bh: One thing, Miss Kim, that I don't see much talk about in your interviews is love. What's love got to do with it?

LK: I don't have that.

bh: But what do you think about it? I know you think about it.

LK: I was in love with somebody recently and he hurt me bad. Three, four years we been together and it's not working. It seems like everywhere I go I can't get real love.

bh: Do you think that people are replacing part of the greed for the fast money and the clothes and the fame because they don't have no love?

LK: I do. When I went out on the street, I was having problems with my boyfriend. I mean, guys used to tell me I wasn't shit, I always gotta rely on them, like, "You ain't shit without me. You always goin' to need me." Till this day I need that person, so they say, "You need me. You can't fucking make it without me. You're ugly." You know what I'm saying? "You ain't all that," bababa.

bh: You are so beautiful, I can't even imagine telling yourself that you're ugly. But how about you now? How do you really feel about Lil' Kim when you look in the mirror?

LK: I'm rebuilding my self-esteem as we speak. I still don't think I'm really a beautiful person, but I know that I can be beautiful inside.

bh: So you are into having a spiritual life.

LK: Yeah, very. That helps me.

bh: And so how do you think spirituality and sexuality come together?

LK: In the bible, it's supposed to happen. If you read the bible, Adam and Eve, they just fucked up, like a lot of stupid motherfuckers in life do today. But Got wanted them to have sex, he just did not want them to eat that nasty apple that they fucking ate, and they did it anyway. They have to be punished for it. A lot of the stuff that my father told me not to do, I did it anyway and I ended up learning the hard way.

bh: So tell me about sex, what you see as the best conditions for great sex for a woman.

LK: I think that a woman should be in love. I think that love makes the sex greater. Or even if you just really, really like that person.

bh: Let's get to the "Lil'" thing, because a lot of men are just gonna groove on you because they're not gonna see that you're a mature woman; they're gonna think of you as this little girl. But what about when you want the world to see the mature woman that you are?

LK: Time will tell that, because if a man wants to come in here right now, he wouldn't know that he can't just walk up to me and say, "Let's leave." He can't do that. I mean, I'm too large for that, O.K.? I've got morals.

bh: I think you gotta take the real image of the sexually liberated you that's behind this image -- this male fantasy shit -- and bring that out more.LK: That's what I'm gonna have to do. See, it's all about topping your best. I'm not gonna totally change my next album. You gradually change. I'm gonna still be talking about sexual things, but it'll be deeper. It won't be as much negativity, meaning older woman who are not thinking like you, who are not being as real as you, will understand me better and say, "Well, I have to get with her now."

bh: That's cool, because I did talk to a whole bunch of people around the States about you, and I did find that the harshest critics were older women, and older black women specifically.

LK: Right. Now that I think about those older women, I think they did the same thing that I did when they were younger, and now that they're older they probably wish that they didn't do it. But I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

bh: I'm older, and I'm here to say that sex gets better. And I think we should talk about it more and do it more.

LK: Not only that, those older women should take what I'm sayin' to heart. "Let me listen to Lil' Kim. Maybe I could spark up something in my relationship..."

http://www.papermag.com/2014/07/lil_kim_bel_hooks.php

"Haterz" Music Video Coming Soon?

According to B Ford via his Instagram, a music video for Lil' Kim's single "Haterz" will be out soon. No other word has yet been given but keep it locked for more updates should they surface.

Click Here to purchase the song on Amazon.com.

"Haterz" is also available to stream on Spotify.

Lil' Kim Freestyle's

Lil' Kim Throws Lavish Baby Shower In New York

The pink carpet rolled out for Lil’ Kim at her royal baby shower in New York on Saturday. Hosted by party planner David Tutera, the lavish affair was held at Broad Street Ballroom and featured light-up trees, a bee hive-shaped cake, and a dance floor.

The mom-to-be, who is expecting a baby girl, was joined by her friends and family including her brother, LisaRaye, Juelz Santana, Kimbella, Sandra “Pepa” Denton, and more.
Kim and her baby daddy, Mr. Papers, made a royal entrance to the sound of trumpeters, while guests came bearing gifts from Tiffany & Co., Petit Tresor, Bel Bambini, and Babies”R”Us.

Mr. Papers surprised his Queen Bee with a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Van to transport her bundle of joy. “I’m officially a soccer mom!” said Kim.
According to her baby shower registry, her little girl is due June 15.

Footage from the baby shower will air during the premiere of “David Tutera’s CELEBrations” on August 1 at 9 p.m. on WE tv. (Rap-Up.com)

Check the pics!

For more pics check the the Lil' Kim UK Tumblr Page >

Photo Set 1: http://lilkimuk.tumblr.com/post/85395419345/new-pics-lil-kims-baby-shower-nyc

Photo Set 2: http://lilkimuk.tumblr.com/post/85421546430/new-pics-lil-kims-baby-shower-nyc-photo-set-2

Photo Set 3: http://lilkimuk.tumblr.com/post/85444600820/new-pics-lil-kims-baby-shower-nyc-photo-set-3

Photo Set 4: http://lilkimuk.tumblr.com/post/85507178000/new-pics-lil-kims-baby-shower-nyc-photo-set-4

Purchase Lil' Kim - Haterz f/ B Ford On iTunes NOW!!!

Make sure you purchase Lil' Kim's new track "Haterz" f/ B Ford which you can now get on iTunes. Taken from the yet to be released "Hard Core" mixtape and produced by Doc Little, this banger is a must for the clubs!

                           https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/haterz-feat.-b.-ford-single/id870644550

Classic Lil' Kim Performance (1996)

New Music: Lil' Kim - Haterz f/ B Ford

Yesterday Lil' Kim dropped a brand new track addressing the haters and letting her naysayers know the deal. The track is taken from the forthcoming "Hard Core Mixtape".

Produced by Doc Little and featuring up coming rapper B Ford, this track is made for the clubs.

Click Link > https://www.twitmusic.com/lilkim/songs/lil-kim-ft-b-ford-haterz

Lil' Kim To Appear On "Celebrities Undercover"

Sure, everybody gossips about famous people…but what if celebrities heard every last, terrible word you said? Yikes! In Celebrities Undercover, stars from Kim Kardashian to T-Pain to Lil’ Kim go incognito and chat up some unfiltered fans — and some of them get pretty mean! Check out the promo for Oxygen’s new show, hosted by Wendy Williams, and don’t miss the premiere March 18!

Watch Video Here > http://celebrities-undercover.oxygen.com/#fbid=Y_YITB5hqaa

Music: Lil' Kim - Revolution f/ Diddy & Grace Jones (Original/Bootleg Version)

Classic Throwback Lil' Kim Performances

While TeamLilKim wait for news on the yet to be released "Hard Core"mixtape, lets enjoy some classic throwback QB performances. No other chick can match Kim's stage presence!



Throwback Interview: Lil' Kim Speaks With Allhiphop.com (2005)

Lil' Kim: The Naked Truth
By Houston Williams
Lil' Kim is about to go away for a while. But, the pint-sized rapper isn't leaving without leaving an indelible mark that will hold fans down until she returns from 366-day bid in prison. Kim's new album, The Naked Truth, hits stores on September 13, and her fourth opus is already being touted as her finest to date.

These days, "Stop Snitching" t-shirts have been the rage in inner-city communities, especially in Brooklyn - Lil' Kim's hometown. On the stand, Kim was rather tight-lipped but now, she is talking. AllHipHop.com spoke to an introspective, wise Kimberly Jones.

AllHipHop.com: Some people suggested that your adversity may turn into a positive thing. Do you feel that way?

Lil' Kim: I know it is, I mean I'm a very strong believer in God and I'm very spiritual and there's nowhere else to go but up. You what I?m saying, when you have down moments and you know there nowhere else to go but up and - I'm not the type of person to take a negative situation and make it more negative. Only negative people make negative situations worse. You know what I mean? I'm a positive person. On my album, this is not like that cause everyday is a positive, everything that happens in the world ain't positive. All the stuff that happens in the news ain't positive. The government politics, that s**t ain't positive. You know you gotta take the bitter with the sweet and that's why I like for my albums to be consisted of, bitter with the sweet, good, bad, and just easy and hard.

AllHipHop.com: Speaking of the government, like a lot of people are critical of them right now with the Katrina thing, you have any thoughts on that?

Lil' Kim: The only thing I have to say about that is, I just hate what happened and it's just so crazy, you know what I mean, if it's true that they knew about this, is just why, why, why would you not try to warn people to clear the homes, city, and town out. Like, I don't understand that, if it's true. I'm not - we don't know exactly what's true and what's not. So if it is true and they knew about it then that's just negativity and evilness and my heart goes out everyone out in Louisiana and New Orleans who I heard lost everything. There's so many people out there who - we had a family member who was out there doing some film stuff and he was in a hotel and he lost everything, the only thing he had was his computer and his knapsack, you know what I mean, he lost all his clothes, all his other stuff.

AllHipHop.com: Word on the street is that you're gonna get five mics in The Source magazine.

Lil' Kim: Yeah. My peoples been tellin' me that. I think it just does great for the evolution of women. I think that's great. I thinks it's gonna be great for women now too. So women be like, "Now I know I can get five mics." Some women probably feel like, "I'm not even gonna try to get five mics, I know I ain't getting five mics." They're like, "Damn, I gonna try to get five mics too."

AllHipHop.com: It will be interesting to watch...

Lil' Kim: Every time my album comes put out, it's like there's a big, how can say this, there's a big hype around me, I come out and boom, you don't get enough of me. It's like my last two albums only had one video for both. That's like crazy. You know what I mean? So it's like, "She's here and then she just goes away real quick, like damn what happened, we need some more Kim." They haven't gotten it. That's where I think the misconception comes in it. That's where it is. But see with this album it's almost the same thing but it's gonna be way different and I think that they'll get to know me, see. With this album I might have the music, I might have the backing, I might have, hopefully, the videos. We tryin' to do at least three or four videos before I go and some other stuff so you can get to know me. But the only thing is in person you won't have me because I'll be gone. I gotta go away. But that's almost the same thing but it's a little different. Hopefully with this time with me being away, my music will be more appreciated and who I am and me as a person, I'll be more appreciated, hopefully.

AllHipHop.com: You feel that you're not appreciated?

Lil' Kim: I think sometimes I'm not, no. I think sometimes I'm not. People hate on me for no reason. Everybody know that I'm the most person - when people want there ratings to be high on the radio like certain talk show hosts, first thing they do is talk about Lil' Kim in a negative way. I haven't done nothing to these people, magazines - for no reason. They trash me. They don't even know me. So, of course that's not being appreciated, when I'm the one who runs the sexiness to the hardcore music for the women. Like, I should be respected and praised. And I'm not cocky or nothing like that, but respect as respecters do, you give respect doers with who deserves it, you know?

AllHipHop.com: If B.I.G. was here, what would he say?

Lil' Kim: I mean if Big was here I think a lot of things probably would of end up going down the way they went down. And if he was here, even if they - let's say they would've gone down anyway, Big is a very inspirational person in my life. Big could say anything. But I know one thing Big would've rolled out with me to the end, whatever. I think by now Big is proud of me. I think he's proud of me and in some senses or some way he may mad at me for being too be worried in certain situations or just being that nice or not being myself, not really saying what I really saying what I really want to say at certain moments. But that's all kind of changed.

AllHipHop.com: Do you think women have to talk about sexual things to get a foothold?

Lil' Kim:I didn't know what they wanna do. [Laughs] I don't why it is that way, it's just that way. It should change. But things have changed a little. You know what I mean? I'm the first female rapper to get five mics you know what I mean? So it changes. You have to be the one to change things. I'm nothing like any female rapper that's out right now. That's the misconception and I hate it. You know what I'm saying? Remy has her own style. Everybody has there own style. Even homegirl [Foxy Brown], who they always compare me to, she is so different from me. I'm not her and this is the one thing I think I'm gonna be most satisfied with this album. And now I get to be separated all that. My record that's out right now ["Put Your Lighters Up"] don?t sound like any other female. You what I'm saying? I've gotten that, I sound like Lauryn, but see there's where you get your Grammy nomination. You know what I mean? I love being compared to Lauryn. And that means that I've done something different. Maybe that's it. And you feel cause I ain't different enough but it is what it is. I don't know.

AllHipHop.com: What about the industry now? I know that Maino has been real outspoken on your behalf, and Bumpy Knuckles too?

Lil' Kim: Those are my family, Maino, Bumpy, that's my family and they been around me for as long as - til' the boat sink - you know what I mean. And the boat ain't never sinking - so they gonna be around for a long time. I'm gonna be around for a long time and, you got some people in the industry that you're just close with.

AllHipHop.com: Okay, okay. Now on the one song , "My N***as," you have some things to say about people, can you speak on those things, like as what made you...

Lil' Kim: You know, just get my album, it speaks for itself. Everybody, you know, it ain't hard to see, hard to see, hard to tell. You what I mean, it ain't no secret, it is what it is.

AllHipHop.com: In the light of your situation, I think it'd be important to know - how is Lil' Kim different from Kim Jones?

Lil' Kim: I mean, I think everyone to a certain extent has to be a totally different person when they go home. You know what I mean? I doubt it very much if Lil' Jon just walks around saying to his mother, "Yeah, OKKKKKK!" I don't think he does that every five minutes, you know what I'm saying. I just think that everybody has their own personal life when they home and I think that's neat. Like, I'm not that type of person who's just like you know - people say I'm so different because when ? I think people think I?m different because when they see me in person my voice is so soft spoken and I'm so classy. They don't expect me to be classy because my music is a little bit hardcore, whatever. I don't know, I don't understand what the misconception is. I don't understand. I think that people just haven't taken the time to really get to know me, and haven't been fair with me. But I think this album they gonna forced to be fair, take the time. That's what I think. I don't know what it is, I really don't. I'm trying to understand what's the misconception too. Why can't I be - why can't eye make hardcore music and be very sexy and then at the same time be classy? Why?

AllHipHop.com: Any final words or anything you would like to say to your fans and just people in general?

Lil' Kim: Yeah. I just love my fans. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, you can keep it going for a whole 'nother paragraph. I love you, I love you, I love you, because without them, there'd be no me, and they were supportive of me doing everything I've been going through so there the ones who I am working so hard for. You know what I mean? And I thank them so much.

Lil’ Kim: The Naked Truth Part II
By Houston Williams

It may not be easy to spot now, but going to the “big house” may be the best thing to happen to Lil’ Kim's career. Based on a recent interview on BET’s “106 & Park” she indicated that knows this notion to be true. “I’m gonna go do what I gotta do for a year and a day and come back stronger than ever, harder than ever,” she barked in front of a horde of shrieking fans. “They done messed up now...Don’t send me [to prison], because all you are gonna do is build this machine stronger.

Since her roughneck debut, Hardcore, Lil’ Kim’s subject matter and lyrical poise have developed tremendously, not just her fashion sense. Despite what the circumstances may say, it’s great to be Lil’ Kim, as seen with her new album The Naked Truth. Here, Kim explains the plan while she is away, her iconic status and the odd way she linked up with The Game.

AllHipHop.com: On The Naked Truth, it seems like it’s more topic oriented, how have you evolved since Hardcore?

Lil’ Kim: Just like the things, I think, I’ve gone through have evolved. Just on those things, period. I mean, there’s a lot more to talk about, I mean I’m always gonna evolved as a artist and I’m not gonna stop until I feel I’ve reached a peak of being an artist until I don’t want to do it anymore.

AllHipHop.com: A lot people put you in a category of ‘sex oriented’ Rap or whatever, how far have you moved beyond that?

Lil’ Kim: But see, that’s just a thing, Like, they used to do that, after this album, everyone’s changed their whole song - and I like that. I’m glad, not just about sex anymore, nobody’s gonna do a whole album with just be sex, sex, sex, sex, sex. I don’t believe that that’s easy to do. Even some of the most sexual artists from back in the days that have been out there, you get their album it’s not only just about sex. I used to hate that. With this album, I’m happy that everyone is taking a whole different approach to who I am as a artist and the music I make.

AllHipHop.com: Because Hardcore is so revered in some circles, I have to wonder if you would you call this new work your best album to date?

Lil’ Kim: I think it’s my best album. I think on Hardcore, there’s a lot of classics and you can’t take away that, you can’t take away classics. But this is definitely gonna be my best album. As far as the most important album, I think La Bella Mafia was the most important album and it didn’t really – it didn’t really get what it needed, it didn’t get the nurture that it needed. To Hip-Hop, to me, for my career - it was very important – that was and important and I think people will understand later why that album was very important later. Notorious K.I.M., although it wasn’t the better album out of any of these albums, we can’t ignore that album because that album was – that was right after Biggie died and that album is gonna very important and very necessary. In the future, I think that people will understand the evolution of Lil’ Kim.

AllHipHop.com: As you discuss importance, I can’t ignore that Syracuse University had a class devoted to you. How do you look at that?

Lil’ Kim: A lot of people thought it was bulls**t, some people thought it was bogus. I thought it was a great thing. They had a class on Tupac, I think they even were even trying to make a class on Biggie. Why not do a class on the first female of Hip-Hop who brought the evolution of being sexy to the game, why not? You know what I’m saying? I wouldn’t even mind if they have had a class on like the first female rapper ever. Why not? What’s wrong with it? I don’t see anything wrong with it. I sat in on a class, it’s not just, “Oh, go find every Lil’ Kim record, or for every Lil’ Kim video, and do a study on her.” It’s a literature class. So when we doing music, music is literate so you have to write, you what I’m saying? Music is studying. They have literature books, Maya Angelou books, they have all kind of literature books that you have to study and compare these literature books the life and the times and the style of Lil’ Kim, my music. And honestly, I haven’t checked up on it lately, but Greg is the professor of the class and he’s a really, really, nice person. And I understand why he pushed for this. And when I went everyone that was on the board at Syracuse, they were so cool and so nice. I haven’t heard them taking it away or anything like that, but one thing I do know is that the classes were over booked. There were so many people trying to get into the class so there must be something in a reason for it. So instead of hanging on and on, rejecting it, they need to accept it and embrace it cause it is a part of life and culture.

AllHipHop.com: In the uncertainty of now, will your line of wrist-watches still come out?

Lil’ Kim: Yeah. As a matter of fact, I’m wearing one right now. I like to always like to keep all my stuff new. We’re in the middle right now – we’re changing distributors, so the person that distributes this watch which is a – the person will not be distributing this watch for me anymore. So right now, we’re gonna do different designs basically.

AllHipHop.com: Likewise, will there be the reality show, as promised?

Lil’ Kim: I may possibly have two shows, we’re not sure. We’re not sure exactly where The Reality of Lil’ Kim is going to placed right now. I mean, we’re in works with some people right now. Tracy Edmunds is playing a big role in this reality show, that’s Babyface’s wife. So she’s like my big sister. And she’s playing a big role and as you know she has the [BET] project, College Hill, so she’s not no stranger to reality TV. And we were really excited about her being really excited about it, because she’s someone who I’ve known for a long time, she’s always wanted to work with me and we never gotten a chance. We linked up again over the last few months and we just started talking about the show and we just agreed to do it. So she’s playing a big role in this. I can’t really say where we’re going yet.

AllHipHop.com: So this is different then the other one?

Lil’ Kim: [It’s different] than the VH1 reality show. The VH1 reality show is supposed to be a makeover show, just something because who knows fashion and style better than me in the Hip-Hop industry? So I think VH1 wanted to bring something to the urban community that they could watch and accept and appreciate, and they used me to do that. I think because of my whole situation they still – it still supposed to be – we’re still going forward with it but because of my situation, we’re just trying to pan out the next episode. We did shoot one pilot that VH1 loved, but I wasn’t happy about and since I wasn’t too happy about it, we’re trying figure out better ways to edit it and produce it and make it better.

AllHipHop.com: Would you consider yourself a fashion icon?

Lil’ Kim: You know, it’s crazy…yeah, fashion-wise, I am. I don’t know what it is about me that they love so much. I love that. But I don’t know what it is, like Mark Jacobs and I have been friends for a couple years now and he’s somebody I love and appreciate. He has a huge Marc Jacobs line, which I love and then he also designs for Louis Vuitton so he is like one of my closest friends in the industry. He’s teaching me a lot too of how to go for my style and be even more comfortable with it. I’m always comfortable with it but over the years there was a slight black barricade of me being reinventing myself and that was because I was just let people style me and just letting them do whatever they wanted to do because I had so much other stuff I had focus on. I kinda just didn’t just put my heart and soul into fashion no more as much as I could because there was so much other things going on but over the last year I don’t call it cleaning up my look or I don’t call it toning down, because I hate that I a lot and I hate that cause what happens when I didn’t do a look that’s over-the-top but it’s still looks good? It’s not toned down. It’s not cleaned up. But it looks good. So you can’t say cleaned up, toned down. They can say whatever they want to say. I just say taking control of my own career, my own image. That’s all I say.

AllHipHop.com: I think you’ve shown street-level chicks a way to look classy, and vice-versa…

Lil’ Kim: Yeah. I can’t speak for them. I just appreciated the fact that they appreciate me and what I do in with my fashion. I love that. But I don’t what it is like Marc Jacobs and I have been friends for a couple years now and he’s somebody I love and appreciate. He has a huge Marc Jacobs line which I love and then he also designs for Louie Vuitton, so he is like one of my closest friends in the industry. He’s teaching me a lot too, of how to go for my style and be even more comfortable with it. I’m always comfortable with it - but over the years, there was a slight black barricade of me reinventing myself and that was because I was just let people style me and just letting them do whatever they wanted to do because I had so much other stuff I had focus on. I kinda just didn’t just put my heart and soul into fashion no more as much as I could, because there was so much other things going on. But over the last year, I don’t call it ‘cleaning up my look’ or I don’t call it ‘toning down,’ because I hate that I a lot and I hate that ‘cause what happens when I didn’t do a look that’s over-the-top but it’s still looks good? They can say whatever they want to say. I just say taking control of my own career, my own image. That’s all I say.

AllHipHop.com: So like, the Diana Ross nipple cover thing [from the 1999 MTV VMA’s], that wasn’t your idea?

Lil’ Kim: No, actually it wasn’t my idea; I just knew how to rock it. [laughs] Everyone can do that, I’m sure. But when I did it, it was just something that I understood. People were looking like – people who were around at the time that knew that I was gonna do this was like – they didn’t understand it. But I understood it. You know what I mean? Because just before she showed it to me I was looking in a magazine where I’ve seen a dress that looked similar to that but wasn’t exactly that. And then my stylist at the time came and brought that to the table.

AllHipHop.com: Lastly, the record you recently did with The Game is getting a lot of buzz. Can you tell us how you two linked?

Lil’ Kim: That was like a freak accident. First, I met him one time in LA. He was really nice to me, he came up – this was way before he became an artist - he came up to me and was like, “Yo Kim, I like your s**t.” He wasn’t like trying to talk to me, nothin’ like that, he was straight music and I loved that about him, that even that one moment that I met him, I didn’t even know who he was. .” He shook my hand, you know what I mean, to me that’s somebody admiring my work not somebody just being a fan or just saying something just to say something. I respected that and I think he did it right. I liked his introduction and that was cool.

[So recently,] I had a listening party, I wasn’t there. But one of his representatives was there and he heard a certain a record that I had, and he went crazy over it. He loved it and he felt like Game would be perfect for the hook, and that was just like his artist and he’s cool with my people. So he reached out to my people and was like, “Yo, can Game be on this hook, so crazy, I want him to be on this record with Kim.” My people said, “This record could be even bigger with Game,” I think it’s something nobody would expect. We sent the track to Game, he was in London. I respect him for that, he was doing some [publicity and touring.] He took the time out in London to go in the studio in London, he laid a verse and did a hook, but he – the verse is gonna be on a remix. I really respect him because I don’t know if I would’ve done that. [laughs]

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New Interview w/ Rolling Out: Lil' Kim Strikes Back - "I Am The Blueprint"

Lil’ Kim is one of the most iconic female artists of the last 20 years. She could make a case for most famous female rapper of all time. She cut a path for brazen female sexuality in hip-hop that cemented her legacy long before a stint in prison slowed her career and gossip blogs began their often mean-spirited and personal attacks on her image. Her legacy is close to unquestionable — but today, she’s refusing to answer any question about that legacy.

So, in addition to being an innovator and an icon — Lil’ Kim is defensive.
“No disrespect, no shade, but I’m not going to answer [that] question because I think that’s kinda corny,” she says adamantly. “I don’t know how to answer that.”
The question concerned the public’s ongoing fixation with the “Queen Bee.” Kim hasn’t released an official studio album since 2006’s The Naked Truth, but she still maintains a certain inescapable presence in hip-hop. She looms. But that fixation has manifest itself in a myriad of not-so-flattering ways in recent years:  like constant scrutiny about her numerous plastic surgeries, dismissals of her career since the death of her mentor, The Notorious B.I.G., and her highly publicized feud with Young Money rapper Nicki Minaj.

So far in 2013, she and her team engaged in a war-of-words with notorious smear merchants MediaTakeOut over photos of Kim that they say were digitally altered to make her look laughable. Kim also snapped on Peter Rosenberg of Hot 97 when, during a call-in interview with Kim and her protégée, Tiffany Foxx, the conversation switched to Minaj. “This is the reason why females can’t do this. You have a nice shot at helping to introduce somebody who is a new artist and very special,” Kim said at the time, chastising the radio host. “And you want to bring in some mess. Don’t do that.”

So, all things considered, Kim’s quiet hostility toward the media isn’t surprising. Expectedly, throughout our interview, her demeanor hardly rises above icy.
“That’s not a question I would answer,” she says regarding the media’s ongoing fixation with her. “I’m blessed. That’s all I can say. And I am who I am.”

Who she is has never been in question. She’s learned life’s lessons in the public eye, oftentimes with her missteps becoming fodder for critique and ridicule. “I’m pretty sure everybody in the industry — and in life, period — has things that they feel like they would do over, but I don’t really regret much in my life,” she claims. “There are certain things that I would do over — and certain things that I would do differently. [But] the things that I go through and the things that I’ve gone through have become a major part of who I am today. “

She’s had to feel the sting of severed relationships and personal betrayals often in her life. Kim infamously cut ties with her former Junior M.A.F.I.A. brethren after members Lil’ Cease and Banger testified against her during her 2005 perjury trial. She and Bad Boy impresario Sean “Diddy” Combs have had a hot-and-cold relationship throughout their intertwined careers and her relationship with Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, has been especially strained over the last several years.

Last fall, she announced her breakup with her boyfriend, Mr. Papers, via Twitter before later tweeting that they’d reconciled; and she hasn’t given up on marriage and love (“If it happens, it happens, I’m not going to fight it. At the end of the day, I feel like I can have both.”) She’s gotten rid of her old management team (“At this point I don’t really have main management.“), and though she has opened Salon Se Swa, a series of boutiques with her cousin, Katrise Jones, that venture has also soured (“At this point we’re not really getting along, business-wise.”)

If nothing else, Kimberly Jones remains defiant and unbowed. Much of her resilience is tied to her having learned to separate business from feelings. “I mean … business is business and personal is personal,” Kim says. “I think that’s always been clear, but you learn more why it’s clear as you live it.”
Combs helped teach Kim that lesson. While she admits that her renewed emphasis on mogul-dom is tied to the direct influence of Diddy (or “Puffy,” as she still refers to him); she also readily admits that their relationship is complex. Combs recently tapped Kim to be the first lady of Ciroc Vodka, acknowledging their ongoing bond. “Puffy called me one day and he tracked me down through some people I knew,” she says of how this latest endeavor together came about. “[He said] ‘No matter what, you’re going to always be my sister.’ We always go through things like that. At the end of the day, we’re tied to each other through B.I.G.’s estate and B.I.G.’s iconic, historic legacy.”

Those strained relationships are the cost of ambition and Kim won’t allow fear or uncertainty make her become professionally stagnant.
“I’m a real artist. I [have] basically been in the game for a minute, [so it’s] where I feel like it’s time to go to [another] level in my career,” Kim says of her career’s progression. “I think every artist has that moment — if you’re a real artist. I care about what I do, so in different things [you’re] always concerned about your next step — but that doesn’t stop me from taking it.”

One step Kim doesn’t seem to be interested in taking is the move to a reality show. She was reportedly offered a show as far back as 2004 that never made it to air, and despite winning “Dancing With the Stars” in 2009, she is happy to remain a spectator as opposed to joining the often-tawdry and catty world of bad girl television. “I never say ‘never,’ but I don’t look at television shows or reality shows and say ‘I want to be on this show,’ ” Kim shares. “Not really. I’m more so into just watching them for entertainment purposes.”

Reigniting her music career would go a long way to silence any Lil’ Kim naysayers. “I just think that my fans — not even just my fans, but even potentially new fans — are ready to hear some new Lil’ Kim music and everyone knows that … I put a lot of my reality into my music [that] people can identify with,” Kim says. “People are ready to hear real rap — real s— coming from a female. Because I’ve always been different, no matter what. My music has always been very sexual and very pro-women. Now I get to do that through my new artists. I have my label coming out, which makes me very driven. “

Kim’s music seems to be the major priority, but she hasn’t released an album in eight years, a lifetime in the world of popular music. “It really wasn’t about taking my time — I had legality situations where legally I could not record because I was in situations where I couldn’t,” she explains.
Though that legality seems to be cleared now and she claims to be in a place of rejuvenation, Lil’ Kim has yet to decide exactly when fans can expect to hear a new album from her. “Being so behind the scenes and taking on this boss lady role, I’ve come to know that you don’t announce your album,” Kim explains. “They can definitely look forward to singles from me this summer, for sure. But the album will come as soon as it’s ready and the time is right.”

Hip-hop’s self-proclaimed “Queen B—h” still trusts her instincts. Having taken her lumps, and endured the highs and lows of an unforgiving industry, she still has complete and total faith in her abilities as an artist and businesswoman.

“That’s something I was born with,” she says confidently. “When you’re born with talent, you also have the talent to conduct your own business. With me, that’s how it is. I just know how to turn it on and off. I just know what I want from myself.
“In my field, I am the blueprint of what I do,” she adds. “I’ve always starred in my own lane.”

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