Lil' Kim

Lil' Kim

Infobox musical artist
Name = Lil' Kim
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Kimberly Denise Jones



Alias = Lil Kim, Queen Bee
Born = birth date and age|1975|07|11
Origin = Brooklyn, New York, United States
Genre = Hip hop, Dirty Rap, East Coast Rap
Occupation = Rapper, songwriter, actress, model,
Years_active = 1994–present
Label = Queen Bee, Atlantic

Kimberly Denise Jones (born July 11, 1975), better known by her stage name Lil' Kim, is an Grammy Award winning, American multi-platinum rapper and singer. Her 2005 album, The Naked Truth, was awarded the 5 mics award from "The Source" magazine, making it the first album by any female rapper to achieve that rating.cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428591/bio|title=Biography for Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones|author=IMDB|accessdate=2008-03-13 |date=2008 |publisher=IMDB]

Early years

At the age of 9, her parents separated,cite web |url=http://music.msn.com/music/artist/lil'-kim/?silentchk=1& |title=Lil' Kim on MSN Music |author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |accessdate=2008-04-22 |date=2008 |publisher=MSN] leaving her and her older brother Christopher at home with her father. While struggling through her personal life, Kim met Christopher "B.I.G." Wallace, who was a key figure in both her personal and artistic life, particularly when Wallace had gained popularity and influence through his relationship with Bad Boy Records. Later on in their relationship, Kim found out she was pregnant with Wallace's baby, but had an abortion, which still affects Kim personally to this day.

In 1994, Wallace was instrumental in introducing and promoting the Brooklyn based group Junior M.A.F.I.A., which included Jones (aka "Big Momma" or "The Lieutenant"). The group's first and only album was titled Conspiracy. The group released their first single, "Playas Anthem", which went on to top the rap charts. The album's second single, "I Need You Tonight" (featuring Aaliyah), was the only single released from the album that did not feature The Notorious B.I.G. The music video, directed by David Paolini, featured the members and Aaliyah holding a house party at Kim's house while she was away. The single reached #12 on the US Hot Rap Singles chart. The album's third single, "Get Money", was certified gold and made the top 20 on the Hot 100. The album debuted at No. 8 on the "Billboard" 200.

Career

1994–1997: "Hardcore"

After a year with Junior M.A.F.I.A., Jones began a solo career by recording her debut album. "Hard Core" was released on November 12, 1996. The album debuted at #11 on the "Billboard" 200 and #2 on the "Billboard" Hot R&B/Rap albums chart. The studio effort was certified Double Platinum later on. The album's lead single "No Time", a duet with Puff Daddy, reached the #1 spot for nine weeks on the Rap Charts and was certified platinum by the RIAA. The album later produced the single "Crush On You". A remix of the album's track "Not Tonight" saw Lil' Kim team up with Missy Elliott, Angie Martinez, Da Brat and Left Eye of TLC. The song was released as part of the soundtrack to the Martin Lawrence movie "Nothing To Lose" and went to #6 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and also earned Lil' Kim her first Grammy Award nomination. Not Tonight was certified platinum by the RIAA. In March 1997, her mentor and secret lover Notorious B.I.G. was shot and killed in Los Angeles. The death took a toll on Kim and had her take a brief break from her career.

1998–2000: "The Notorious K.I.M."

From 1998 to 2000, Kim continued her road to stardom under the management of BIG's best friend, Damion "D-Roc" Butler's "Roc Management", touring and modeling for various fashion and pop culture companies including Candies, Versace, Iceberg, and Baby Phat. In 1999, she performed P. Diddy's "No Way Out" tour. In the same year, she launched her own label Queen Bee Entertainment and even though she hadn't had an album of her own released, she was seen on dozens of remixes and guest appearances on other artist's records. On June 27, 2000, Kim released her second album "The Notorious K.I.M." The album marked a new image and revamped look for the rapper. Despite the limited success of its singles, the album surprisingly reached #4 on the "Billboard" 200, and #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart selling 160,000 copies in its opening week. It was certified platinum by the RIAA.

2001–2004: "Moulin Rouge!" and "La Bella Mafia" and "Def Jam: Fight for NY"

In 2001, Lil' Kim teamed up with Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Mýa to remake "Lady Marmalade", which was originally written about a bordello in New Orleans and performed by the group Labelle (which included diva Patti LaBelle) 25 years earlier. The song was recorded for the "Moulin Rouge!" film soundtrack, released in April 2001, and stayed #1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for five weeks. The song also went to #1 in 50 countries around the world. This was a big accomplishment for female rap, as well as for Kim, who scored her first #1 Hot 100 hit and became the first female rapper in history to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. "Lady Marmalade" also garnered Kim her first Grammy Award.

In 2003, Lil' Kim recorded a new entrance theme for then World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Women's Champion Trish Stratus entitled, "Time to Rock 'n Roll", which was used during broadcasts, until Stratus' retirement. The single was released on "WWE Anthology", a compilation of entrance theme music to various Professional Wrestling superstars.

On March 4, 2003, Kim released her third critically acclaimed album, "La Bella Mafia". Highly rated (4.5 mics) by music magazine "The Source", "La Bella Mafia" spawned the hit "The Jump Off" featuring Mr. Cheeks, which climbed to number 16 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The single "Magic Stick", feat. 50 Cent, hit #2 on the Hot 100 without a video ever being shot.

"La Bella Mafia" debuted at #5 on the "Billboard" 200. Kim was nominated for five Source Awards and won two ("Female Hip-Hop Artist of the Year", and "Female Single of the Year"). This album also got two Grammy Award nominations: Best Female Rap Solo Performance ("Came Back For You") and Best Rap Collaboration ("Magic Stick"). She was also nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with singer Christina Aguilera for the song "Can't Hold Us Down", from Aguilera's album "Stripped".

Lil' Kim also made an appearance on the multi-platform videogame "." Kim provided voice-overs for her part in the storyline, where the player may fight an opponent to have Lil' Kim as his girlfriend. Kim requested to have orange hair, blue colored contacts and a navel ring. Her fighting style is martial art and her finishing move is the "Queen Bee Sting."

2005–2006: Criminal conviction and "The Naked Truth"

On March 17, 2005, Kim was found guilty of conspiracy and perjury for lying to a grand jury about her friends' involvement in a 2001 shooting outside the Hot 97 studios in Manhattan. She claimed not to have known that her manager (Damion "D-Roc" Butler) and another friend (Suif Jackson) were at the scene, despite video footage showing all three exiting the building. Both men have pleaded guilty to gun charges since. In July 2005, she was sentenced to a one-year-and-a-day in the Philadelphia Detention Center. She had requested to go to a camp center in Connecticut to be closer to her mother, but instead was ordered to report to the Philadelphia Detention Center. Her lawyer stated that, "A year and a day is actually less than a year sentence, because according to federal sentencing guidelines, if there's an extra day, time is credited to you". A parole bill was filed that reduced her sentence. Throughout her entire jail sentence, Kim's representatives declared that she was busy working; she wrote over 200 songs while in prison.

Despite her conviction, Kim released a fourth album, "The Naked Truth," during her sentence on September 27, 2005. It earned her a 5 mic rating from "The Source", making her the first and only female rapper to ever accomplish this feat (two 5 mic ratings). The album debuted at #6 on the "Billboard" 200 charts, giving Kim her Third Top 10 debut on the charts. "The Naked Truth" didn't sell as well as her previous works, selling less than 400,000 copies. Kim has said that her jail sentence left her with no time to promote the project. There have been many rumors about a re-release of "Truth" but to no avail.

The music video for "The Naked Truth"'s first single, "Lighters Up" was number one on BET's "106 & Park" for two weeks. "Lighters Up", was a Top Ten hit on the "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. The single also reached #76 on the German Single Chart, #12 on the UK Top 75 and #4 on the Finland Single Chart. The second single, "Whoa" was released on February 17, 2006. It reached No. 22 on Airplay. On March 9, BET premiered the show "," which was filmed before Kim headed to jail. The show became the highest rated premiere in BET history, with 1.7 million viewers.

In May 2006, Debbie Harry released a Lil' Kim tribute song called "Dirty and Deep" in protest of her conviction. The song is available free from the [http://www.deborahharry.com Deborah Harry Home Page] .

On June 6, 2006, Lil' Kim "The Dance Remixes" was released.

2006–present: Life after prison

On July 3, 2006, Kim was released from the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center. Hundreds of fans and supporters gathered around the prison as she made her release, holding a "Welcome Home" balloon and a dozen roses. After she waved to her fans and gave speeches to news reporters, Kim left in a 2007 Rolls Royce Phantom with a driver, telling the crowds, "Thank you, I love you all." According to her assistant, Kim was welcomed home by five different parties, including one hosted by "VIBE" magazine.

Things started looking up for Kim. However, in August 2006, Jamaican Dancehall artist, Tanya Stephens, claimed in a suit filed in Manhattan federal court that Kim stole the lyrics from one of her songs, Mi And Mi God after flying her (Stephens) to New York, asking her to sing on one of her albums and belting out by heart the very song she pilfered to show what a big fan she was of Stephens, according to the suit. Stephens and her representatives from the Royalty Network were shocked when they first listened to Lil' Kim's late-2005 album, The Naked Truth. The lyrics of Kim's track Durty are said to match almost word for word with Stephens' Mi and Mi God recorded in Jamaica and released in 1997, on Stephens' album, Too Hype. It was never publicized what the outcome of the suit was.

Lil' Kim gave her first post-prison performance at VH1: Hip-Hop Honors 2006. Lil' Kim paid tribute to veteran rapper MC Lyte. Kim performed, "Lyte As A Rock" for Lyte's tribute. Lil' Kim stated "MC Lyte has paved the way for many rappers including myself, and I was honored to show respect for an amazing woman."

Kim was a judge on both seasons of the reality show Pussycat Dolls Present: on the The CW Television Network.

In the spring of 2007, Kim was heard on the remix to the popular Diddy song "Last Night" feat. Keyshia Cole. When rumors surfaced about the remix, many believed Kim wouldn't end up on the song,and after the first remix surfaced many wrote her her appearance off as another untrue rumor. They were proved wrong days later when a second remix of the song surfaced, featuring Kim & Busta Rhymes. This remix is the first time Kim & Diddy have worked together in many years, after a falling out.

Kim also was featured on "Let it Go" with Keyshia Cole and Missy Elliott. It was nominated in the 'Best Rap/Sung Collaboration' category at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards held February 2008. It lost however to Rihanna's song "Umbrella".

Hot 97's Annual Summer Jam took place in June 2007 at New Jersey's Giants Stadium, and Diddy was one of the acts performing. He shocked the fans by escalating into his 1997 mega hit, "It's All About the Benjamins" - and on The Lox's quotable portion of the song, instead of asking the crowd to rap it as he had done in the past, Diddy instead brought out his past notorious rivals: The Lox. By this time, the music stopped, and Diddy breathlessly announced, "Ladies and gentlemen. She's been gone for a while but say 'what's up' to the queen." And Lil' Kim, wearing a revealing red chiffon kimono shirt, performed her verse to "Benjamins" before jumping into her song, "Lighters Up" off her 2005 album "The Naked Truth". Backstage after the show, Diddy commented exclusively to "VIBE". "That was planned", he said, about the surprise performance with Lil Kim and The Lox. "We've been great for a long time, and a lot of people hear about the rumors, but we've been great. We put it together and we wanted to show the world we could."

Kim made a surprise performance with Diddy and Keyshia Cole for a remix to the "Last Night" at the 2007 BET Awards. Both Kim and Diddy have stated they may be working together again in the future. Rumors have surfaced that Bad Boy Records is attempting to sign Kim to a new recording contract, but there has been no confirmation.

Recently, Lil Kim has remixed a number of songs to get reacquainted with the music scene. Some of these remixes include Gimme More with Britney Spears, Freaky Gurl with Gucci Mane and Ludacris, No One with Alicia Keys, and I Get Money with 50 Cent.

She also took a huge step recently, ending her feud with 50 Cent and recording "Magic Stick Part 2 (Wanna Lick)" with him. It is the first single from the new G-Unit album.

On December 10, 2007, Lil' Kim made an appearance on MTV's "Mixtape Monday", along with Mr. Cee, to formally announce the upcoming release of her first official mixtape entitled Ms. G.O.A.T. (Miss Greatest of All Time). According to Lil' Kim, the mixtape serves not only as an opportunity to keep her fans satisfied with new music in between albums, but it is also an homage to past female rappers. On the mixtape, Lil' Kim remakes classic songs, with her own Queen Bee twist, such as Lauryn Hill's "Lost Ones", Lady of Rage's Afro Puffs, MC Lyte's "Cha Cha Cha", just to name a few. The mixtape also includes an official remix to Britney Spears' Gimme More. Additionally, the mixtape includes a song called "Chillin' Tonight", which has had little radio success, but is said to be on Lil' Kim's untitled fifth solo album. The mixtape was released on December 27, 2007 to the internet but was officially released physically on May 27. It is available for pre-order on amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, hmv.com as well as other sites. It is unknown whether it is the original mixtape with the hosts or whether it is a non-host version for the physical release since the covers on amazon say have 'lil' kim' on the front cover but no 'hosted by' text like on the original internet release cover

Lil Kim also discussed her reunion with former manager, Lance "Un" Rivera. She also announced that Trackmasters are producing her new album, and Mister Cee is helping put out her new mixtape. According to MTV, she says her time on Atlantic Records is over, and that she'll release her next album on her own Queen Bee Records in conjunction with the Flavor Unit (the Unit are also sharing co-managing duties with Un). Imperial Records will distribute the project.

Recently a new Lil' Kim song leaked called "Respirator". In the song Kim uses Auto-Tune for the majority of the song. It is not known if it will be included on her upcoming album.

Kim made another surprise performance with Keyshia Cole for a duet of there song Let It Go at the 2008 BET Awards.

Recently another new Lil' Kim song leaked called "Caribbean Connection". Featuring Reggae atists Wyclef Jean & Movado.

Another Lil' Kim Track was Recently released entiled "Shook Hands", Kim destroys Remy Ma and Junior Mafia on this track, There is no word if the track would be on her upcoming new album Vintage, which is scheduled to be released the first quarter of 2009.

Discography

Albums

* 1995: "Conspiracy"
* 1996: "Hard Core"
* 2000: "The Notorious K.I.M."
* 2003: "La Bella Mafia"
* 2005: "The Naked Truth"
* 2009: "Vintage"

Mixtapes

* 2007: "Ms. G.O.A.T."

ingles

Featured Singles

Filmography

*1999: "She's All That"
*2001: "Zoolander" (cameo)
*2002: "Juwanna Mann"
*2003: "Those Who Walk in Darkness" (direct-to-DVD)
*2003: "Gang of Roses" (direct-to-DVD)
*2004: "Nora's Hair Salon"
*2004: "You Got Served"
*2005: "Lil' Pimp" (voice) (direct-to-DVD)
*2005: "There's a God on the Mic" (documentary)
*2008: "" (cameo)

Television

*"" (2008)
*"" (2006)
*"" (2007)
*"Moesha" (as Diamond)
*"The Parkers" (as herself)
*"The Game (US TV series)" (as herself)
*"Mind of Mencia (Carlos Mencia as Lil Kim in Bow Down sketch)
*"American Dreams as Shirely Ellis

Awards

*Grammy Awards
**1997: Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Ladies Night (Not Tonight remix)" (with Missy Elliott, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Da Brat, and Angie Martinez) (nominated)
**2002: Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Lady Marmalade"
**2003: Best Female Rap Solo Performance for "Came Back for You" (nominated)
**2003: Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Can't Hold Us Down" (with Christina Aguilera) (nominated)
**2003: Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Magic Stick" (with 50 Cent) (nominated)
**2008: Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Let It Go" (with Keyshia Cole & Missy Elliott, ) (nominated)
*MTV Video Music Awards
**1998: Viewer's Choice for "All About The Benjamins" (with P. Diddy and others)
**2001: Video of the Year for "Lady Marmalade"
**2001: Best Video from a Film for "Lady Marmalade"
*My VH1 Awards
**2001: Favorite Video ("Lady Marmalade")
**2001: Is It Hot In Here Or Is It Just My Video? ("Lady Marmalade")
*Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards
**1997: Best Video by a Female - Rap/R&B ("Crush On You")
**1998: Best Video by a Female - Rap/R&B ("Not Tonight (remix)")
*Source Awards
**2003: Female Artist of the Year
**2003: Female Single of the Year "The Jumpoff"
*Teen Choice Awards
**2001: Choice Song of the Summer ("Lady Marmalade")
* MOBO Awards
**2003: Most Stylish Artist of the Year
* Radio Music Awards
**2001: Song of the Year Top 40 Pop Radio-"Lady Marmalade"
* TMF Awards-Belgium
**2001: Video of The Year-"Lady Marmalade"
* TMF Awards-Netherlands
**2001: Video of The Year-"Lady Marmalade"
* ALMA Awards
**2002: Outstanding Song- Motion Picture Soundtrack "Lady Marmalade"
* ASCAP Music Awards
**2002: Song of the Year-"Lady Marmalade"
* MTV Japan Awards
**2002: Best Choreography "Lady Marmalade"
* MVPA Video Awards
**2002: Best Styling In A Video-"Lady Marmalade"
*VIBE Awards
*2005: Album of the Year "The Naked Truth" (nominated)
*BET Awards
**2006: Best Female Hip-Hop Artist (nominated)
**2008: Best Song "Let It Go" (nominated)
*American Music Awards
**2003: Best Female Hip-Hop Artist
**2005: Best Female Hip-Hop Artist (nominated)

Reference

External links

* [http://www.lilkim.com/ Official website]
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* [http://www.lilkimzone.net/ Lil Kim Zone]

Persondata
NAME= Jones, Kimberly Denise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Lil' Kim
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Rapper, songwriter, actress, model,
DATE OF BIRTH= 1975-07-11
PLACE OF BIRTH= Brooklyn, New York, United States


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