Her parents, Ruby Mae Jones and Linwood Jones, both hailed from Trinidad. Lil' Kim was born Kimberly Denise Jones on J(some sources say 1975), in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. Since regaining her freedom, Kim has continued to be active musically - and also as a reality-TV star - and in June 2014 became a mother to a daughter, Royal Reign, whose father is the Honduras-born rapper Mr.

And she is also the only female rapper to ever receive a coveted “5-mics” review from The Source magazine, for her acclaimed 2005 album The Naked Truth - released while she was serving a jail sentence for perjury. She is one of only three female rappers to have three platinum albums - the others being Missy Elliott and Nicki Minaj. Kim was devastated by Wallace’s death, but eventually continued to forge a successful career. She was discovered by Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious B.I.G., who turned her into a star and became her lover before he was murdered in 1997 - a crime that has never been solved. As a result she ran away and fell into an outwardly glamorous, but dangerous and exploitative world of pimps and drug dealers. She came from a broken home, and as a teenager had endured a violent relationship with her father. But behind her spike-heeled “gangsta porno rap” ferocity lay a conflicted, vulnerable side of her character. Notorious for her flesh-baring image and sexually explicit lyrics, Lil' Kim shot to fame in the latter half of the 1990s.

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