A Big Showing From Lil’ Kim
Jon Caramanica of the Boston Phoenix reviewed Lil’ Kim’s latest effort, ‘La Bella Mafia’. He writes, “This is Lil’ Kim’s third album, and one that’s been in the making for almost three years. Compared with the lightheartedly sexual tone of her earlier recordings, it’s positively dour. Sure, there’s plenty of hypersexual game playing, but for each racy tune, a new incarnation — we’ll call her Kim the Grim — takes a turn at the mike. The result is a more complex Lil’ Kim persona: sassy yet faithful, scheming yet sincere, high-strung yet low-down. There are times when she seems to pine for a return to the good old days — to life before the plastic surgeries, before Diana Ross felt her up on MTV, before her fame, before the tragic romance with Biggie. But she can’t quite shake the darker parts of her past: memories of growing up in Crown Heights, the rough part of Brooklyn where Biggie and Kim first hooked up, becoming fast friends and then lovers. Even now, Biggie’s ghost, it seems, is still with her.” Read more.
Tags: Lil' Kim, Notorious B.I.G.
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