![]() Lil' Kim, Lil Cease & The Notorious B.I.G "Crush On You " (1997) ” Eventually, the mother of it all would link up with the City Girls to deliver 2019’s “ Found You”. Following up her debut moment in the M.A.F.I.A’s “ Player’s Anthem ,” Kim made her mark as a witty scammer not taking BS from any man on “Get Money” and eventually '97’s Bad Boy anthem “ It’s All About The Benjamins. She not only forces her man to give her “Hallmark cards sayin’ ‘I apologize’,” he also has to add “diamonds and Armani suits/Adrienne Vittadini and Chanel 9 boots” to the care package. ![]() However, Lil’ Kim steals the show scoring a W for the ladies with her feisty closing verse. The men roared “fuck bitches, get money,” while the women answered back “fuck niggas, get money”. As one of the hit singles from the hip-hop posse’s 1995 album, Conspiracy, the song rang true to both sexes. leading the men and Lil’ Kim leading the ladies. In the winter of 1996, a similar battle had taken place within Junior M.A.F.I.A., at the hands of The Notorious B.I.G. This 2018 club banger became a leading soundtrack force for summer 2019's Hot Girls and City Girls versus Hot Boys and City Boys culture war. When City Girls first arrived on the mainstream tip with “Act Up,” conversations arose about the duo, JT and Yung Miami, leading a subgenre of “scammer rap.” Most men protested about the mere thought of being taken advantage of financially by the opposite sex while women who admired the audacity of JT and Yung Miami shouted the song’s iconic opening line at brunch mixers across the nation. Here is a list of nine influential songs from Lil’ Kim that successfully gave insight to the issues that matter in today’s hip-hop. Legends who are hip-hop have the ability to do that. ![]() What Lil’ Kim was rapping about more than a decade, or two ago, is what the culture of hip-hop is experiencing now. Not only was she commentating on her present- inserting what she had learned from the greats who preceded her- she was setting a blueprint for the new school. Throughout Lil’ Kim’s immaculate discography and decorated career, her lyrics and thematic content remained prescient of the future for hip-hop. To be called something as prestigious as “Hip-Hop” not only means you are most skilled at the genre, you have to be able to shift the culture forward while embodying it for the public at large. As she claims in 2003’s “ This Is Who I Am,” Kim is a multidimensional rap personality, with the ability to “Switch up flows like I switch up my clothes, more than Wilt Chamberlain switched up his hoes.” Lil’ Kim is a revered gamechanger, known for how she dominates wax with hard-hitting, flossy Mafioso bravado, in addition to sheer sex appeal and equally cunning wit. BET believes so the network has given the 4’ 11” MC the “I Am Hip Hop” honor at the 2019 BET Hip-Hop Awards. Kimberly Denise Jones - who staked a claim to the throne in the '90s as Lil’ Kim - deserved to be on anyone’s list. One of the issues at hand with that list- which was then followed up by personalized ones from rap heads - is that it omitted women from the rankings completely. Here is a list of influential Lil' Kim songs that successfully gave insight to the issues that matter in today's hip-hop.Įarlier this year, when a list of the top 50 greatest rappers of all time circulated, it created various firestorms. ![]() What Lil' Kim was rapping about more than a decade ago is what hip-hop is experiencing now. ![]()
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