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Lil' Kim: Shootouts, Lusty Lyrics, and Loyalty in the Land of the M.A.F.I.A. · DISGRACELAND

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  Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information.
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  Speaker 2: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about
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  Speaker 2: Lil Kim are insane. She lived on the streets when
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  Speaker 2: she was fourteen to escape her abusive father. She survived
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  Speaker 2: the shootout when her beef with a fellow rap star
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  Speaker 2: lit up a Manhattan radio station. She committed perjury to
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  Speaker 2: save her crew from prison time, and they didn't return
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  Speaker 2: the favor. She straddled the sex positivity movement with lyrics
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  Speaker 2: that reinvented what it meant to be a woman in
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  Speaker 2: hip hop. Her music counted the diamonds in her rings
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  Speaker 2: and told the world that's how many times she wanted
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  Speaker 2: to finish. She's a walking quote unquote explicit content sticker
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  Speaker 2: that paved the way for songs like Cardi B and
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  Speaker 2: Meghan the Stallion's Watt. Even twenty five years after Little
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  Speaker 2: Kim's solo debut, few rappers expose their sexuality like she can,
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  Speaker 2: because Lil Kim makes filthy and great music. Unlike that
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  Speaker 2: loop I've played for you at the top of the
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  Speaker 2: show that wasn't great music, that was a preset loop
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  Speaker 2: for my Melotron called you Better Get Bad Jack MK.
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  Speaker 1: Two.
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  Speaker 2: I played you that clip because I can't afford the
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  Speaker 2: rights to Stutter by Joe featuring Mystical And why would
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  Speaker 2: I play you that specific slice of two times in
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  Speaker 2: R and B Cheese?
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  Speaker 1: Could I afford it?
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  Speaker 2: Because that was the number one song in America on
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  Speaker 2: February twenty fifth, two thousand and one, And that was
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  Speaker 2: the day that would lead Little Kim down a path
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  Speaker 2: of perjury.
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  Speaker 1: In prison time.
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  Speaker 2: On this episode, shootouts explicit content, sex, positivity, loyalty.
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  Speaker 1: In the land of the Mafia, in Lil.
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  Speaker 2: Kim, I'm Jake Brennan, and this this disgraceland Ingrid Rivera
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  Speaker 2: struggled to make sense of the sweaty mass pulsing in
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  Speaker 2: front of her, hips grinding bears, spilling, a blur of
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  Speaker 2: flesh with arms and legs poking out. Somewhere inside that
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  Speaker 2: mess was Ingrid's gift. She had to fish it out.
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  Speaker 2: She elbowed her way through the throng of people and
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  Speaker 2: the souls of HERI stiletto stuck to the nightclose floor.
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  Speaker 2: The flowers. Where were those goddamn flowers? Ingrid's mission was straightforward,
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  Speaker 2: find the bouquet she walked in with, don't get distracted
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  Speaker 2: by Y Klaus Jean and Missy Elliott chatting in the corner,
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  Speaker 2: any and all romantic advances, and then make a special delivery.
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  Speaker 2: It was a simple task if you weren't flying high
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  Speaker 2: on cocktails. But Ingrid reached cruising altitude hours ago, and
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  Speaker 2: now the skies were looking murky. Under no circumstances could
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  Speaker 2: she get distracted. Ingrid's bouquet had to go straight into
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  Speaker 2: the arms of the Birthday Girl aka Ingrid's Idyl aka
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  Speaker 2: Queen b aka Lil Kim. The party at Spotlight Live
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  Speaker 2: that evening, August third, two thousand and eight was for
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  Speaker 2: Little Kim's thirty third birthday. The club itself was open
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  Speaker 2: to the public all night long. Fans knew they could
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  Speaker 2: find Kim inside, big fans like Ingrid, who came bearing gifts.
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  Speaker 2: She brought a okay worthy of a queen into the
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  Speaker 2: Manhattan club that night. A bar keep stashed it away.
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  Speaker 2: When Ingrid couldn't find the birthday Girl, and now Ingrid
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  Speaker 2: couldn't find that bouquet, she couldn't even find her friends.
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  Speaker 2: Ingrid turned her head to the left the room swayed
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  Speaker 2: to the right. There had to be closet or a
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  Speaker 2: VIP lounge. She didn't know about, some secret stash space
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  Speaker 2: removed from the chaos. Ingrid opened the first door she
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  Speaker 2: found and staggered inside urinals and bathroom stalls. Definitely not storage.
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  Speaker 2: But there was a manager in that room who was
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  Speaker 2: happy to show Ingrid the right door, the door that
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  Speaker 2: led to the street. It was almost three am. She
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  Speaker 2: was a liability stumbling around in those stilettos. The manager
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  Speaker 2: wasn't there to babysit. Time to give up and go home,
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  Speaker 2: so Ingrid was tossed outside. Another employee from the club disagreed.
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  Speaker 2: The barkeep, who had stowed away her bouquet earlier, approached
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  Speaker 2: Ingrid on the street. He could get her back inside
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  Speaker 2: and help her make that special delivery. He even had
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  Speaker 2: access to the club's VIP penthouse. He'd get Ingrid's flowers
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  Speaker 2: and bring her right to the roof. That's probably where
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  Speaker 2: little Kin was camped out for the evening. All she
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  Speaker 2: needed to do was joined him in the freight elevator.
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  Speaker 2: He was gonna fuck her cousin, fuck her Luggo was
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  Speaker 2: nothing like their relationship, didn't mean shit to him like
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  Speaker 2: it was normal to hoe around with your girl's family.
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  Speaker 2: That motherfucker, Biggie Small's is gonna fuck her cousin. Little
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  Speaker 2: Kim tried to get comfortable in her chair at the
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  Speaker 2: recording studio. She couldn't bring herself to make eye contact
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  Speaker 2: with her lover. She couldn't bring herself to do much
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  Speaker 2: of anything. So what if Usher needed verses for a song?
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  Speaker 2: Usher could wait. Kim was in no mood to lay
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  Speaker 2: down bars, not after what she just learned. Her cousin
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  Speaker 2: wanted four hundred dollars for the deed. What you gonna
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  Speaker 2: do for four hundred dollars, Biggie asked. Kim shuddered at
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  Speaker 2: the thought, not at the thought of the sex. She
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  Speaker 2: could rap about sex on that long. She'd tell you
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  Speaker 2: where to shove it, lick it, eat it, kiss it,
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  Speaker 2: stroke it, whatever wherever. Little Kim straddled the sex positivity
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  Speaker 2: movement in the nineties, but even she had her limit.
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  Speaker 2: She drew the line at disloyalty. No boyfriend of Little
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  Speaker 2: Kim was going to double timer with her own family,
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  Speaker 2: not even rap royalty like the notorious Big Because Little
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  Speaker 2: Kim was rap royalty too. Cross Queen bee and Shell,
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  Speaker 2: I have your head served on a platinum record. She
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  Speaker 2: could have reached across the room and beheaded Biggie herself
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  Speaker 2: with the idea tickled her. Biggie didn't even need to
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  Speaker 2: be here. That trader just wanted to hover nearby as
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  Speaker 2: if Kim needed help cranking out lyrics. She had her verses.
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  Speaker 2: She was good, but she wasn't feeling good on the inside. Unfaithful, motherfucker,
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  Speaker 2: ungrateful motherfucker. If you went worshiping at the altar, little Kim,
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  Speaker 2: she don't need it. Usher still needed those verses, though,
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  Speaker 2: Biggie would make sure he got them immediately. He ordered
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  Speaker 2: Kim into the hallway to speak at private. She glared
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  Speaker 2: up at him and waited for the lecture. Biggie told
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  Speaker 2: her to grow a pair and spit her bars already
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  Speaker 2: he wanted bars huh, some vicious rhymes to send shivers
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  Speaker 2: down his spine. She had plenty of those stored up
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  Speaker 2: just for him. Kim fired off, told Biggie to keep
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  Speaker 2: it in his pants and keep his guard up. She
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  Speaker 2: had the higher ground and there was no way she
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  Speaker 2: was going to give up this stuff. Biggie reached for
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  Speaker 2: his strap. He wrapped his hand around the handle of
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  Speaker 2: his pistol. Kim froze Biggie was and asking her to
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  Speaker 2: record the verses. He was telling her if she had
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  Speaker 2: a problem with that, she could catch a bullet, just
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  Speaker 2: like anyone else. Kim stormed back into the studio. She
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  Speaker 2: spit out her verses like venom. So this was love
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  Speaker 2: to command to protect you, and they'll threaten you anyway,
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  Speaker 2: just like her father did to her mother, Just like
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  Speaker 2: Biggie did to little Kim. It was the same old pattern,
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  Speaker 2: violence always looming around every corner, even when Kim believed
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  Speaker 2: she was around people she could trust. Her father's fist
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  Speaker 2: pushed her mother out of their family when Kim was eight.
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  Speaker 2: Back then, she was just Kimberly Jones, daughter of a
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  Speaker 2: military man who believed to brute force. One time, her
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  Speaker 2: father socked her mother in the face and told friends
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  Speaker 2: that her two black eyes were because she just fell down.
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  Speaker 2: Kim's mother would rather live out of the trunk of
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  Speaker 2: a car than fall down again, so that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: she did. Kim did the same thing when she was fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: She picked the streets of Brooklyn over her father's verbal
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  Speaker 2: and physical abuse, which was handed.
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  Speaker 1: Down to her.
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  Speaker 2: Like family heirloom, men could be volatile. Kim learned that
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  Speaker 2: lesson early, but they could also be tamed, and Little
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  Speaker 2: Kim was a regular snake charmer. She adapted quickly on
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  Speaker 2: the streets at ved style. She had a boyfriend, you
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  Speaker 2: had food and protection, and if you could have great sex,
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  Speaker 2: you had yourself. A boyfriend had no time flat. Even
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  Speaker 2: if no money was exchanged. Sex was currency in that sense,
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  Speaker 2: Little Kim was rich, and the notorious Big knew he
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  Speaker 2: could make her even richer. When Biggie first met Kim
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  Speaker 2: on Fulton Street, she seemed too cute to rap. At
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  Speaker 2: seventeen years old and four foot eleven, she didn't look
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  Speaker 2: like your average rap star, but Little Kim was sicker
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  Speaker 2: than your average She was sexier too. Turns out Kim
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  Speaker 2: could rap fast and furious, foaming at the mouth, just
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  Speaker 2: like Biggie.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't matter, He insisted.
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  Speaker 2: Men didn't want to hear hard truth coming from a
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  Speaker 2: petite little thing for Brooklyn. They wanted a sex kitt
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  Speaker 2: and spit in rhymes about swallowing a goddess could knock
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  Speaker 2: him on to his knees every time she mentioned her
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  Speaker 2: immaculate pussy which in Little Kim's world, was like every
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  Speaker 2: thirty seconds. Biggie started Kim as a member of Junior Mafia,
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  Speaker 2: a hip hop group of his own creation. Her verses
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  Speaker 2: peppered their nineteen ninety five debut Conspiracy with foul mouth sexuality.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't just tell them to put their face between
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  Speaker 2: her thighs. She told them she'd count dollar bills while
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  Speaker 2: her neck diar gushed down their throats. It was clear
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  Speaker 2: Little Kim needed her own album to detail her own
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  Speaker 2: sexcapades with their own verses. Enough of people crediting Biggie
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  Speaker 2: for her hard work, Little Kim had her own ideas
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  Speaker 2: about her debut solo album. She craved something so explicit
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  Speaker 2: it would make faithful men sweat, something so enticing it
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  Speaker 2: could make tail chasing bachelor's dream about marriage and baby carriages.
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  Speaker 2: Something hardcore. Little Kim took too much.
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  Speaker 1: This time.
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  Speaker 2: She was doubled over on the stretcher. Her stomach spastened,
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  Speaker 2: It squelched and squirmed like a rabid animal. She tried
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  Speaker 2: to soothe herself. You know who you are, you little
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  Speaker 2: Kim bitch. Nothing was too freaky for her. She could
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  Speaker 2: take anything, wink wink, even a plastic tube shoved down
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  Speaker 2: her throat. A paramedic pushed the tube through Little Kim's
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  Speaker 2: nose and down her windpipe. He coaxed it into her stomach.
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  Speaker 2: Then he switched on the suction fluid pumped through the tube.
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  Speaker 2: Little Kim swallowed more than she could handle tonight, leaders
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  Speaker 2: more so much that the liquid was eating away at
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  Speaker 2: the lining of her stomach. Not drugs, not alcohol, Little
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  Speaker 2: Kim needed her stomach pumped to remove all the Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna come right out and say it. There's no
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  Speaker 2: way Little Kim consumed so much seamen that she needed
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  Speaker 2: her stomach pumped. It doesn't even contain an active ingredient
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  Speaker 2: that could hurt your internal organs. But I digress. The
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  Speaker 2: urban legend that Little Kim needed to have come pumped
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  Speaker 2: out of her in a medical capacity is one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent absurd, but that never stopped anyone from repeating it.
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  Speaker 2: The myth was spread in high school hallways, record stores,
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  Speaker 2: online message boards. Some versions added new details little Kim
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  Speaker 2: collapsed on stage mid performance, that her flame with Biggie
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  Speaker 2: was to blame. One version involved an elephant, which, come on, seriously,
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  Speaker 2: you could speculate that Kim's nasty bars inspired such a
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  Speaker 2: vulgar rumor untrue. This fable dated back to the nineteen seventies,
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  Speaker 2: when people told the same story about Rod Stewart or
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  Speaker 2: David Bowie. Britney Spears was featured in future versions. Gross
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  Speaker 2: as it was, the stomach pump story was an urban
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  Speaker 2: legend made for legends. It was a legend fit for
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  Speaker 2: a queen, and Little Kim was quickly becoming just that.
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  Speaker 2: Her debut album, Hardcore Sucked and Fucked its way to
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  Speaker 2: number eleven on the Billboard two hundred and nineteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: Listeners were seduced by Little kim sticky depictions of what
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  Speaker 2: she could do to you and what she demanded you
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  Speaker 2: do for her. Her rhymes about throwing lips on certain
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  Speaker 2: body parts seduced Americans into buying one point five million copies.
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  Speaker 2: And just in case anyone struggled to picture the pornographic scenes,
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  Speaker 2: Little Kim described the album art included a photo.
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  Speaker 1: To stimulate their imagination.
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  Speaker 2: It's a snap of Kim squatting on the floor in
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  Speaker 2: a cheetah print bikini, legs spread feathered robe, grazing her
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  Speaker 2: bare skin bedroomise locked a camera level the Notorious Big
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  Speaker 2: hand picked the photo from the album photo shoot. It
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  Speaker 2: was one of his last tips for his lover and
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  Speaker 2: protegee before he was assassinated just months later in the
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  Speaker 2: spring of nineteen ninety seven. His death was proof that
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  Speaker 2: the East Coast, West Coast beef and mainstream hip hop
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  Speaker 2: had gone too far, But Biggie's absence was also proof
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  Speaker 2: that Little Kim was nobody's pupp The Queen Bee could
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  Speaker 2: rule on her own just fine. Kim loved Biggie fiercely,
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  Speaker 2: but that didn't mean she needed him to sustain her career.
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  Speaker 2: She countered her coins while Hardcore went platinum and then
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  Speaker 2: double platinum. Her following record, The Notorious Kim, flew off
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  Speaker 2: the shelves even faster. In two thousand, it was a
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  Speaker 2: new century, a new era for women in rap music.
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  Speaker 2: Dudes weren't the only ones bragging about their platinum plaques
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  Speaker 2: and designer digs. Kim could afford to drape herself with
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  Speaker 2: clothes from any of the brand she name dropped in
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  Speaker 2: her songs Chanelle to Versace. She had so much cash
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  Speaker 2: as she had a favorite kind of fur. It's chinchilla.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, she kept her closet full of fur
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  Speaker 2: coats for modest days, a fur bikini for everything else.
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  Speaker 2: She wore a thirty carrot diamond belly chain. Pasties in
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  Speaker 2: every shade, especially lavender let the one that caused Diana
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  Speaker 2: Ross to jiggle Kim's exposed breast at the MTV Video
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  Speaker 2: Music Awards in.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: She melded sex, style and songwriting into one persona lo
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  Speaker 2: Kim would tell you to count the diamonds and her
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  Speaker 2: rings and then demand to give it the same number
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  Speaker 2: orgasms in one breath. Little Kim wasn't the first woman
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  Speaker 2: to rap. She wasn't even the first woman to rap
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  Speaker 2: about sex, but she was the first woman to tell
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  Speaker 2: you she was down to fuck in explicit terms, just
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  Speaker 2: like one of the men not have sex fuck. In
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  Speaker 2: the mid nineteen nineties, there was another woman in hip
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  Speaker 2: hop spelling out her desires, A certified fox. She put
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  Speaker 2: her pussy right in the title of her debut album,
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  Speaker 2: called it Lil Nana. It dropped one week after Hardcore,
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  Speaker 2: and she went by the name of Foxy Brown. No
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: one knew where Little Kim's feued with Foxy Brown came from.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: All hip hop fame came with a beef, and Little
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  Speaker 2: Kim beef with Foxy Brown like she was at a steakhouse.
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  Speaker 2: Their rivalry divided mainstream hip hop into two sides. Kim
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  Speaker 2: had Junior Mafia behind her, Foxy Brown had Murder Unit.
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  Speaker 2: As far as Kim was concerned, Junior Mafia was the
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  Speaker 2: winning team because in the Mafia's land, loyalty does everything.
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  Speaker 2: Brown could have shared that loyalty was Kim. They were
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  Speaker 2: even supposed to make an album together. They were gonna
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  Speaker 2: call it Thelma and Louise. But when you want to
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  Speaker 2: be the Queen Bee but you can't be, people get mad.
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  Speaker 2: At least that's how Kim saw it. Both women wounded
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  Speaker 2: each other with their worldplay. Puffy even did some Kim's bidding.
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  Speaker 2: Puffy and Kim hopped on a Little Ceesar's track play
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  Speaker 2: Around in nineteen ninety nine, in which Puffy demanded that
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  Speaker 2: a Little Kim copycat stopped trying to sound like her.
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  Speaker 2: Kim continued the battle on the notorious k I Am
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  Speaker 2: with a jab that Foxy wasn't a star and even
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  Speaker 2: her label knew it. Foxy fired back on component Noriega's
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  Speaker 2: two thousand album The Reunion. She damned the notorious k
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  Speaker 2: I Am to the bottom of the bargain. Pin said
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  Speaker 2: it was lame and weak. Not the woman named names,
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  Speaker 2: but everyone knew who they were talking about. Little Kim
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  Speaker 2: and Foxy Brown were vixens to the hip hop world,
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  Speaker 2: but villains to each other. Kim didn't sweat it. She
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  Speaker 2: knew who wore the pants in this new era of
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  Speaker 2: hip hop? After all, who did the industry call?
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  Speaker 1: When Pink, Christina.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Aguilera and Meyer remade Lady Marmalade for the Mulin Rouge soundtrack,
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  Speaker 2: only one rapper boasted the crossover appeal to hang with
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  Speaker 2: all the mainstream pop girls in two thousand and one.
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  Speaker 2: The song was a half Phony French, half English, all sex,
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  Speaker 2: but somehow nos swears banger. This new Lady Marmalade represented
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  Speaker 2: all things fierce and female about the turn of the century.
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  Speaker 2: It peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and stayed there for five weeks. It remains Little
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  Speaker 2: Kim's best selling single to this day. So while Foxy
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  Speaker 2: Brown talked shit, Kim was busy counting bank figures. And
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  Speaker 2: if Foxy ever wanted to walk the walk and start
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  Speaker 2: a proper fight, Kim would handle it like a real bitch.
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  Speaker 2: When Little Kim rolled up, she rolled deep, Little Cease Larceny,
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  Speaker 2: her bodyguard See Gutta, her manager Damian Butler, they all
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  Speaker 2: trailed behind her, which she burst through the doors of
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  Speaker 2: Hot ninety seven. She had a real treat for the
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  Speaker 2: Manhattan radio station that afternoon. Three members of Junior were
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  Speaker 2: in the building. The group disbanded years ago, literally in
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  Speaker 2: the last century, but their names still carried wade in
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  Speaker 2: the hip hop world. Besides, Little Kim, Lil Sea's and
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  Speaker 2: Larceny were forever bonded by the land of the mafia.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing could separate them. Hot ninety seven stacked its schedule
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  Speaker 2: on that day, February twenty fifth, two thousand and one.
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  Speaker 2: The DJ would interview Kim first, then he'd usher her
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  Speaker 2: out the door and welcome guest number two.
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  Speaker 1: For the afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Capone, as in one half of Capone in Noriega, the
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  Speaker 2: very same Capone who allowed Foxy Brown to take aim
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  Speaker 2: at Kim on his new album. Foxy's remarks were the
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  Speaker 2: latest jab in their years a long feud. Their beef
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  Speaker 2: was growing stale, tiresome. Kim's crew was ready to bury
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  Speaker 2: it once and for all, even if it meant burying
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  Speaker 2: Foxy Brown's posse. It was a scene straight out of
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  Speaker 2: a Western Kim's crew was exiting the radio station. Capone's
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  Speaker 2: crew stood in the street. Hot ninety seven wasn't big
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  Speaker 2: enough for the two of them. You got beef with, little, Kim,
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  Speaker 2: cried out. A member of Capone's crew answered with a
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  Speaker 2: bullet that was seed gout us que. Kim's bodyguard reached
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  Speaker 2: for the Mac eleven strapped under his vest military grade.
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  Speaker 1: This was war.
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  Speaker 2: Bullets flew across Hudson Street, straight into the walls of
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: nearby apartments, then straight into a member of murder Unit's crew.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: A bullet pierced from the Copone's buddies in the back,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: and the impact knocked him onto the sidewalk. He froze
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: in a growing puddle of his own blood. Pretended he
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: dropped dead, just in case someone else wanted to plant
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: a bullet in his brain for good measure. But Kim's
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: crew wasn't sticking around to survey the damage. She ducked
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: into her limmle with her entourage and tore us away
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: from the scene. The man who had been shot stumbled
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: to his feet his clothes soaked in blood. He staggered
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: into the street and hailed a cab to the hospital.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: And that man lived, so did the beef. Loyalty in
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: the land of the Mafia was about to be tested.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this word, word word.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Little Kim scanned the options in front of her, frayed
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: daisy dukes, a champagne colored gown, a fire red top
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: embroidered with beating the Queen. A rap could do better.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: This was no ordinary day in front of the camera.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Today was a promotional shoot for her new album, Naked Truth.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Where was the fur? The sequin pasties? Hell sent back
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: the Cheetah primt bikini from the hardcore album Mark. This
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: racket clothes was a force compared to Kim's wardrobe at home.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: She forked over twenty to thirty thousand dollars every month
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: to keep her style looking fresh. That meant a wig
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: for every hour of the day, over twenty five hundred
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: pairs of shoes, a designated room for each designer, three
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: thousand manicures that decorated her nails. Shredded one hundred dollars bills.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Little Kim literally destroyed money to remind everyone she still
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: wrapped for fat Stacks, just crunched the numbers for Labella Mafia,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: her platinum record from two thousand and three. The outfits
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: in front of Kim today were not Bella. They were boring.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Queen Bee deserved better, but she didn't have any time
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: to complain. The clock was ticking, not from the record label,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: the clock from the FEDCE. Lil Kim was going to jail.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Kim didn't fire a gun that day outside of Hot
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: ninety seven in two thousand and one, she didn't so
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: much as swing a fist, but she had another way
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: of backing up her crew. She used the same lips
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: to put other wrappers on blasts. Lil Kim lied under
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: oath repeatedly in two thousand and one. In two thousand
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: and three, she testified that her manager, Damien Butler, wasn't
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: at the scene of the shootout. Security footage from Hot
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: ninety seven said otherwise. A tape showed him standing beside
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: her at the station before and during the shooting. Strike one.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Then Damien pulled a gun and fired at Component's crew
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Strike two. There was another lie. Kim said she didn't
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: know Sigutta, her own bodyguard. Strike three, you know You're out.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: In March in two thousand and five, Little Kim was
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: convicted of lying to a grand jury and three counts
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: of conspiracy. The security tapes from Hot ninety seven alone
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: could have locked her up, but it got worse when
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: her crew took the stand. Damian Butler and See Gotta
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: owned up to everything completed guilty. Larsen's accurate account as
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: an eyewitness shattered Kim's statement. So did Little Cease's testimony.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Little Cease claimed he had no choice since he was subpoenaed.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Bullshit.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You always had a choice. Kim had a choice right
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: either tell the truth, damn or crew er lie your
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: ass off and give them a chance of freedom.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: She chose wrong.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Now all her decisions revolved around finishing the naked truth
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: before her prison sentence. She had three days until she
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: traded those designer clothes for an orange jumpsuit or whatever
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: women wore at prison camps. The judge assigned Kim the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: same destination as Martha Stewart. The court argued that Kim
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: and Martha Stewart were stuck in the same boat.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: That was a riot. One woman was a.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Mild mannered homemaker guiding women toward their best domestic lives.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Then the other was the patron saint of sinners rap,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: but they were both liars inside her trading and perjury
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: were just two different forms of dishonesty, and the judge
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: wanted Kim's sentence to mirror Martha's time in prison so
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: no one could cry discrimination. But Martha got five months
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: at a prison camp and Kim got a year and
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: a day. So much for keeping things. Even Kim knew
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: what she really was, she was an example the Feds
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: could point to when they needed to demonstrate what happened
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: to rappers who stepped out of line. Her trial was
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: just another battle in the government's war on hip hop.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: They indicted Kim for her music, not her lies. She
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: used her new album to make those politics loud and clear.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: And the Naked Truth had balls and stripped away the bullshit,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: kept it body, sneered its snitches, boasted its allegiance to
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: the bedside. And if he still wanted to spread rumors
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: that Little Kim was dead, broke or sniff and coke,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: she had a specific message for you.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Shut up, bitch.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: The Naked Truth even condemed Junior Mafia and anyone who
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: was still riding with him. In that chapter, Little Kim's
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: career was through. It was two thousand and five, for
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Christ's sakes, The nineties were long gone, and so it
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: was Kim's trust. She could hear the inmates calling.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: To her from where she sat on her bus.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: They banged on the slittered windows and their prison cells.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Fists on glass rumbled like an earthquake. They were sending
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: a message, We've got your back. Her time was up.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: No more sitting lovely and popping don Pe in the club,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: No more three thousand dollars manicures, no more NonStop album hustle.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Little Kim's prison sentence began today, September nineteenth, two thousand
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: and five. Kim sent to decoy out of the bus first,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: her cousin, also four foot eleven. That didn't fool the prisoners.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: They held their clamoring until they saw the real deal.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Fans pressed against the bus door, and there was no
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: turning back now. Kim already tried to turn back the
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: clock once, and her attorney called the Department of Probations
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: earlier that morning, requesting to push back her sentence.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: No dice.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: The department claimed that if Kim wanted an extension so badly,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: she should have asked earlier. Kim fought the urge to
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: clap back. Maybe she would have requested an extension earlier
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: if she knew where the Feds were actually sending her.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Just days earlier, Kim thought she'd be whisked away to
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: a low security federal prison camp.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: That was all bullshit.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: The Feds wanted her at the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: as if she was the one who fired a gun. Meanwhile,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: America's glorified housewife got to frolic through a facility with
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: low fedss like it was a dinner party. But did
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Martha Stewart have dozens of prisoners banging on the walls
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: when she made her grand entrance. Be not, Kim had
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: allies waiting for her on the other side of those
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: cement walls. She had just as many loyal fans gathered
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: on the outside. She just hoped they'd still be there
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: when she finally walked back out. Little Kim did not
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: have to wait very long to find out if her
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: fans would stick by her side. Her kingdom awaited the
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: moment she finished her prison sentence. The crowd outside the
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: detention center packed itself so tightly she could barely squeeze
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: herself out the door. Fans closed in from every angle, pushing, prodding, shrieking.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: They thrust gifts in her path, wave signs in her face.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: For months, Kim's fans sustained themselves with The Naked Truth,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: would dropped barely a week into her prison time. That's right,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: she dropped her fourth album from behind bars like she
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: didn't give a fuck if she saw how well it did.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: It's still the only album from a female rapper to
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: be awarded a five MIC rating from the source real
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: gangster shit, But Little Kim was no gangster when she
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: was doing time. The Feds came out of prison early
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: on good behavior. She quickly made peace that she wasn't
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: going to her prison camp as promised, and she cultivated
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: a new routine to help her.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Pass the time.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Church on Sundays, Bible study on Tuesdays, karaoke on Christmas.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: She made damn sure no one had a reason to
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: keep her locked up for a moment longer than necessary.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: She was a threat to the rap game, not to inmates.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: The Feds sprang her two months earlier, right before the
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: fourth of July two thousand and six. She would have
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: to endure a month under house arrest in three years
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: under supervision to fully complete her sentence, and that was
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: just fine by her. Kim was barely out the door,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: and life already felt more normal. She was back in demand,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: back to her chariot, a silver Rolls Royce, revved up
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: and ready to go back to the front page of
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: every celebrity magazine. Images of a little Kim leaving prison,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: clutching a balloon in a bouquet of white roses made
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: the rounds in major music publications. She slipped into the
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: backseat of the Rolls and the rush of fame flushed
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: her cheeks. For the first time in ten months. She
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: had work to do an MTV video, music its appearance,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: to prepare for it, lavish parties to throw, relationships to reevaluate.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: She glanced down at the bouquet in her lap and
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the balloom bumping against the roof of the back seat.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Kim wasn't sure which parts of her circle were loyal anymore,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: but she knew her fans were loyal to the death.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: The freight elevator felt like an oven. The air conditioning
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: repairman Dabs swept from his forehead as it climb to
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: the roof of the Spotlight Live. It was an easy
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: gig if you could endure August afternoons slinging nuts and
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: bolts the top Manhattan skyscrapers. He just needed to get
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: into the utility shed on the roof and get out
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: as fast as possible. He needed a strong stomach, too.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: He wretched when he opened the door to the shed.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: The corpse inside was battered, caked with dried blood. Gorris
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: spilled from the head. Someone tried to bash this person's
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: brains in, maybe with a pipe, maybe with a champagne bottle.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Angered Rivera never found her flowers. Three nights earlier, on
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: August third, two thousand and eight, the barkeep she met
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: outside the club had no intention of guiding Ingrid to
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: her idol. It was a lie to get her alone.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: He killed her while five hundred guests kept bottle service
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: busy downstairs, and then he shoved the evidence into the
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: utility shed on the roof of the building. No one
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: knew about Ingrid's murder, not the nightclub staff, not the partygoers,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: not even the party's host. Little Kim Kim was heartbroken,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: but she could probably relate at least a little bit.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Little Kim was a stone cold stunner who claimed she'd
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: kill a man for her man by any means. Her
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: loyalty was ironclad, but she couldn't say the same about
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: everyone around her. Kim trusted Biggie back in the day
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: when he wasn't pointing a gun at her. She trusted
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: her father until she became his punching bag just like
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: her mother. She trusted her crew so much that she
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: stuck her neck out for them in court, and then
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: they slid it when they testified against her and sent
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: her to jail. Little Kim's fans were the only ones
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: who deserved her loyalty in protection, but even they trusted
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: the wrong people on occasion. Sometimes it ends in death,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: but they all land in disgrace. I'm Jake Brennan in
• 29:10
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