Upon hearing about his death, Kim struggled to reevaluate her life and career. She—along with the rest of Junior M. Kim put her sophomore album to the side after his death, instead choosing to be featured on songs by Puff Daddy and Mobb Deep. Kim's next album, The Notorious K.
She continued to work with Puff Daddy on the album after collaborating with him during her hiatus in an attempt to stay connected to Biggie 's legacy. The certified platinum album was well-received by audiences and critics, but failed to live up to her debut.
The celebrity status that Kim had developed would skyrocket with her next project. The Grammy-winning single was an immense hit, reaching No.
Lil' Kim faced major issues with the law in the same year that would impact her life and career forever. In February , gunshots were fired after she finished promoting her album outside of a New York City radio station.
As a result of the altercation, one man was shot and critically wounded. When questioned about the event, Kim refused to talk to police about who accompanied her to the radio station or the cause of the shooting. When asked by a grand jury what her connection was to those who opened fire, she claimed that she was either not accompanying them or she didn't know them at all. The shooting was suspected to have been a part of the prolonged feud between Kim and Foxy Brown.
Several years after the shootout, Kim was convicted for perjury and conspiracy in for lying about her involvement to law officials and a grand jury.
Security footage proved that the rapper gave false information about her relationship with the entourage that accompanied her to the New York City radio station and opened fire. Her fourth album, The Naked Truth, was released at the beginning of her sentence. After serving her day sentence, Lil' Kim was released from prison and struggled to get her career back on track. View this post on Instagram. Published Jul 15, at pm. I allow Heavy. Disagree Agree.
Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. Would love your thoughts, please comment. As well as his solo career, Wallace also put together a hip-hop group, Junior MAFIA an acronym for Masters at Finding Intelligent Attitudes , whose membership included several of his childhood friends. Lil' Kim — so called because of her diminutive 4-foot- inch stature — became its only female member. With Wallace at the helm, Junior M. With the single "Player's Anthem," Lil' Kim was introduced to the world.
She modeled her vocal flow on that of the Notorious B. With Wallace as executive producer — he also rapped on four of the songs — Hard Core showcased more of the raunchy and lyrical wordplay that the public had already heard on Conspiracy. The album debuted at No. She had changed her appearance dramatically — with breast implants, blonde wigs and blue-eyed contact lenses. But on closer inspection her modified appearance seemed an attempt to subvert deep-seated feelings of inadequacy: it had been blonde, blue-eyed girls who had ridiculed Kim when she was a child.
Even after she found success, the wounds seemed not to have entirely healed. It begged the question: is Lil' Kim a feminist icon, or a victim, or perhaps even both? I think being Lil' Kim the rapper helped me deal with it better. I think doing photo shoots and seeing all the people respond to me has helped.
Around the same time as Kim's debut, the public was introduced to another provocative female rapper by the name of Foxy Brown, whose debut album, Ill Na Na , was released a week after Hard Core.
The pair had previously been friends, but the clash of the release dates, and their strikingly similar lingerie-clad album covers, sparked a rivalry that would descend into a bitter feud. Christopher Wallace discovered Kim and developed her as an artist —they became lovers too, though their relationship was far from exclusive: Wallace famously slept around. His death hit her hard: she believed he was the only man who had ever loved her for who she was.
Despite never being officially released as a single, it held the No. The following year it won a Grammy award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals — firmly establishing Kim as one of the most sought-after rappers of the early 21st century. Debuting at No. Like its two predecessors, the album was also certified platinum. At the time Missy Elliott was the only other female MC with three platinum albums.
On February 26, , gunshots were fired outside the Hot 97 studio in Manhattan, after Lil' Kim had been interviewed on the radio station. One man was shot and critically wounded.
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