1
00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,440
Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners.

2
00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,760
Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information.

3
00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:17,919
Speaker 2: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about

4
00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:22,120
Speaker 2: Lil Kim are insane. She lived on the streets when

5
00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,280
Speaker 2: she was fourteen to escape her abusive father. She survived

6
00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,600
Speaker 2: the shootout when her beef with a fellow rap star

7
00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,440
Speaker 2: lit up a Manhattan radio station. She committed perjury to

8
00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,280
Speaker 2: save her crew from prison time, and they didn't return

9
00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,559
Speaker 2: the favor. She straddled the sex positivity movement with lyrics

10
00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,560
Speaker 2: that reinvented what it meant to be a woman in

11
00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,000
Speaker 2: hip hop. Her music counted the diamonds in her rings

12
00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,440
Speaker 2: and told the world that's how many times she wanted

13
00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,839
Speaker 2: to finish. She's a walking quote unquote explicit content sticker

14
00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,520
Speaker 2: that paved the way for songs like Cardi B and

15
00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,280
Speaker 2: Meghan the Stallion's Watt. Even twenty five years after Little

16
00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:03,760
Speaker 2: Kim's solo debut, few rappers expose their sexuality like she can,

17
00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:09,600
Speaker 2: because Lil Kim makes filthy and great music. Unlike that

18
00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:11,399
Speaker 2: loop I've played for you at the top of the

19
00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,320
Speaker 2: show that wasn't great music, that was a preset loop

20
00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,039
Speaker 2: for my Melotron called you Better Get Bad Jack MK.

21
00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:20,040
Speaker 1: Two.

22
00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,080
Speaker 2: I played you that clip because I can't afford the

23
00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,360
Speaker 2: rights to Stutter by Joe featuring Mystical And why would

24
00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,920
Speaker 2: I play you that specific slice of two times in

25
00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:31,000
Speaker 2: R and B Cheese?

26
00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:31,960
Speaker 1: Could I afford it?

27
00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,400
Speaker 2: Because that was the number one song in America on

28
00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,679
Speaker 2: February twenty fifth, two thousand and one, And that was

29
00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,880
Speaker 2: the day that would lead Little Kim down a path

30
00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:43,160
Speaker 2: of perjury.

31
00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,000
Speaker 1: In prison time.

32
00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:51,480
Speaker 2: On this episode, shootouts explicit content, sex, positivity, loyalty.

33
00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,200
Speaker 1: In the land of the Mafia, in Lil.

34
00:01:53,040 --> 00:02:27,440
Speaker 2: Kim, I'm Jake Brennan, and this this disgraceland Ingrid Rivera

35
00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,480
Speaker 2: struggled to make sense of the sweaty mass pulsing in

36
00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,440
Speaker 2: front of her, hips grinding bears, spilling, a blur of

37
00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:38,280
Speaker 2: flesh with arms and legs poking out. Somewhere inside that

38
00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,480
Speaker 2: mess was Ingrid's gift. She had to fish it out.

39
00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,519
Speaker 2: She elbowed her way through the throng of people and

40
00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,360
Speaker 2: the souls of HERI stiletto stuck to the nightclose floor.

41
00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:53,320
Speaker 2: The flowers. Where were those goddamn flowers? Ingrid's mission was straightforward,

42
00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,400
Speaker 2: find the bouquet she walked in with, don't get distracted

43
00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,320
Speaker 2: by Y Klaus Jean and Missy Elliott chatting in the corner,

44
00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,800
Speaker 2: any and all romantic advances, and then make a special delivery.

45
00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,639
Speaker 2: It was a simple task if you weren't flying high

46
00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:11,160
Speaker 2: on cocktails. But Ingrid reached cruising altitude hours ago, and

47
00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:15,480
Speaker 2: now the skies were looking murky. Under no circumstances could

48
00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,600
Speaker 2: she get distracted. Ingrid's bouquet had to go straight into

49
00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:22,720
Speaker 2: the arms of the Birthday Girl aka Ingrid's Idyl aka

50
00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:29,280
Speaker 2: Queen b aka Lil Kim. The party at Spotlight Live

51
00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,080
Speaker 2: that evening, August third, two thousand and eight was for

52
00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,720
Speaker 2: Little Kim's thirty third birthday. The club itself was open

53
00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,360
Speaker 2: to the public all night long. Fans knew they could

54
00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,000
Speaker 2: find Kim inside, big fans like Ingrid, who came bearing gifts.

55
00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,760
Speaker 2: She brought a okay worthy of a queen into the

56
00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,040
Speaker 2: Manhattan club that night. A bar keep stashed it away.

57
00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,240
Speaker 2: When Ingrid couldn't find the birthday Girl, and now Ingrid

58
00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,960
Speaker 2: couldn't find that bouquet, she couldn't even find her friends.

59
00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,680
Speaker 2: Ingrid turned her head to the left the room swayed

60
00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,720
Speaker 2: to the right. There had to be closet or a

61
00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,160
Speaker 2: VIP lounge. She didn't know about, some secret stash space

62
00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,400
Speaker 2: removed from the chaos. Ingrid opened the first door she

63
00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:12,640
Speaker 2: found and staggered inside urinals and bathroom stalls. Definitely not storage.

64
00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,480
Speaker 2: But there was a manager in that room who was

65
00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,839
Speaker 2: happy to show Ingrid the right door, the door that

66
00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,240
Speaker 2: led to the street. It was almost three am. She

67
00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,400
Speaker 2: was a liability stumbling around in those stilettos. The manager

68
00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,640
Speaker 2: wasn't there to babysit. Time to give up and go home,

69
00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:31,599
Speaker 2: so Ingrid was tossed outside. Another employee from the club disagreed.

70
00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,560
Speaker 2: The barkeep, who had stowed away her bouquet earlier, approached

71
00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,880
Speaker 2: Ingrid on the street. He could get her back inside

72
00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,200
Speaker 2: and help her make that special delivery. He even had

73
00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,799
Speaker 2: access to the club's VIP penthouse. He'd get Ingrid's flowers

74
00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,280
Speaker 2: and bring her right to the roof. That's probably where

75
00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,919
Speaker 2: little Kin was camped out for the evening. All she

76
00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,600
Speaker 2: needed to do was joined him in the freight elevator.

77
00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,640
Speaker 2: He was gonna fuck her cousin, fuck her Luggo was

78
00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,400
Speaker 2: nothing like their relationship, didn't mean shit to him like

79
00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,840
Speaker 2: it was normal to hoe around with your girl's family.

80
00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:11,200
Speaker 2: That motherfucker, Biggie Small's is gonna fuck her cousin. Little

81
00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,040
Speaker 2: Kim tried to get comfortable in her chair at the

82
00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,200
Speaker 2: recording studio. She couldn't bring herself to make eye contact

83
00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,320
Speaker 2: with her lover. She couldn't bring herself to do much

84
00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,440
Speaker 2: of anything. So what if Usher needed verses for a song?

85
00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,080
Speaker 2: Usher could wait. Kim was in no mood to lay

86
00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,320
Speaker 2: down bars, not after what she just learned. Her cousin

87
00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,200
Speaker 2: wanted four hundred dollars for the deed. What you gonna

88
00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,680
Speaker 2: do for four hundred dollars, Biggie asked. Kim shuddered at

89
00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,599
Speaker 2: the thought, not at the thought of the sex. She

90
00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,920
Speaker 2: could rap about sex on that long. She'd tell you

91
00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,039
Speaker 2: where to shove it, lick it, eat it, kiss it,

92
00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,960
Speaker 2: stroke it, whatever wherever. Little Kim straddled the sex positivity

93
00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,440
Speaker 2: movement in the nineties, but even she had her limit.

94
00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,840
Speaker 2: She drew the line at disloyalty. No boyfriend of Little

95
00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:52,880
Speaker 2: Kim was going to double timer with her own family,

96
00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,720
Speaker 2: not even rap royalty like the notorious Big Because Little

97
00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,960
Speaker 2: Kim was rap royalty too. Cross Queen bee and Shell,

98
00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,640
Speaker 2: I have your head served on a platinum record. She

99
00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,320
Speaker 2: could have reached across the room and beheaded Biggie herself

100
00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,200
Speaker 2: with the idea tickled her. Biggie didn't even need to

101
00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,760
Speaker 2: be here. That trader just wanted to hover nearby as

102
00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,320
Speaker 2: if Kim needed help cranking out lyrics. She had her verses.

103
00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:19,560
Speaker 2: She was good, but she wasn't feeling good on the inside. Unfaithful, motherfucker,

104
00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,920
Speaker 2: ungrateful motherfucker. If you went worshiping at the altar, little Kim,

105
00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,159
Speaker 2: she don't need it. Usher still needed those verses, though,

106
00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:31,760
Speaker 2: Biggie would make sure he got them immediately. He ordered

107
00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,520
Speaker 2: Kim into the hallway to speak at private. She glared

108
00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,680
Speaker 2: up at him and waited for the lecture. Biggie told

109
00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:38,679
Speaker 2: her to grow a pair and spit her bars already

110
00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,279
Speaker 2: he wanted bars huh, some vicious rhymes to send shivers

111
00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:44,840
Speaker 2: down his spine. She had plenty of those stored up

112
00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,120
Speaker 2: just for him. Kim fired off, told Biggie to keep

113
00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,080
Speaker 2: it in his pants and keep his guard up. She

114
00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,120
Speaker 2: had the higher ground and there was no way she

115
00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,919
Speaker 2: was going to give up this stuff. Biggie reached for

116
00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,280
Speaker 2: his strap. He wrapped his hand around the handle of

117
00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,680
Speaker 2: his pistol. Kim froze Biggie was and asking her to

118
00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,360
Speaker 2: record the verses. He was telling her if she had

119
00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,560
Speaker 2: a problem with that, she could catch a bullet, just

120
00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,040
Speaker 2: like anyone else. Kim stormed back into the studio. She

121
00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,400
Speaker 2: spit out her verses like venom. So this was love

122
00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,920
Speaker 2: to command to protect you, and they'll threaten you anyway,

123
00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,880
Speaker 2: just like her father did to her mother, Just like

124
00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:24,200
Speaker 2: Biggie did to little Kim. It was the same old pattern,

125
00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,440
Speaker 2: violence always looming around every corner, even when Kim believed

126
00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,800
Speaker 2: she was around people she could trust. Her father's fist

127
00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,000
Speaker 2: pushed her mother out of their family when Kim was eight.

128
00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:37,280
Speaker 2: Back then, she was just Kimberly Jones, daughter of a

129
00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,080
Speaker 2: military man who believed to brute force. One time, her

130
00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,240
Speaker 2: father socked her mother in the face and told friends

131
00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,920
Speaker 2: that her two black eyes were because she just fell down.

132
00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,600
Speaker 2: Kim's mother would rather live out of the trunk of

133
00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,560
Speaker 2: a car than fall down again, so that's exactly what

134
00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,880
Speaker 2: she did. Kim did the same thing when she was fourteen.

135
00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,760
Speaker 2: She picked the streets of Brooklyn over her father's verbal

136
00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:59,760
Speaker 2: and physical abuse, which was handed.

137
00:07:59,440 --> 00:07:59,880
Speaker 1: Down to her.

138
00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:04,000
Speaker 2: Like family heirloom, men could be volatile. Kim learned that

139
00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,720
Speaker 2: lesson early, but they could also be tamed, and Little

140
00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:14,160
Speaker 2: Kim was a regular snake charmer. She adapted quickly on

141
00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,160
Speaker 2: the streets at ved style. She had a boyfriend, you

142
00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,000
Speaker 2: had food and protection, and if you could have great sex,

143
00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,800
Speaker 2: you had yourself. A boyfriend had no time flat. Even

144
00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:27,800
Speaker 2: if no money was exchanged. Sex was currency in that sense,

145
00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,360
Speaker 2: Little Kim was rich, and the notorious Big knew he

146
00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,720
Speaker 2: could make her even richer. When Biggie first met Kim

147
00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,040
Speaker 2: on Fulton Street, she seemed too cute to rap. At

148
00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,880
Speaker 2: seventeen years old and four foot eleven, she didn't look

149
00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,640
Speaker 2: like your average rap star, but Little Kim was sicker

150
00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,320
Speaker 2: than your average She was sexier too. Turns out Kim

151
00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,040
Speaker 2: could rap fast and furious, foaming at the mouth, just

152
00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:51,720
Speaker 2: like Biggie.

153
00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:53,760
Speaker 1: Didn't matter, He insisted.

154
00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,640
Speaker 2: Men didn't want to hear hard truth coming from a

155
00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,160
Speaker 2: petite little thing for Brooklyn. They wanted a sex kitt

156
00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,120
Speaker 2: and spit in rhymes about swallowing a goddess could knock

157
00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:02,880
Speaker 2: him on to his knees every time she mentioned her

158
00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,400
Speaker 2: immaculate pussy which in Little Kim's world, was like every

159
00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,200
Speaker 2: thirty seconds. Biggie started Kim as a member of Junior Mafia,

160
00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,400
Speaker 2: a hip hop group of his own creation. Her verses

161
00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,679
Speaker 2: peppered their nineteen ninety five debut Conspiracy with foul mouth sexuality.

162
00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,120
Speaker 2: She didn't just tell them to put their face between

163
00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,960
Speaker 2: her thighs. She told them she'd count dollar bills while

164
00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,000
Speaker 2: her neck diar gushed down their throats. It was clear

165
00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,400
Speaker 2: Little Kim needed her own album to detail her own

166
00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:33,760
Speaker 2: sexcapades with their own verses. Enough of people crediting Biggie

167
00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,840
Speaker 2: for her hard work, Little Kim had her own ideas

168
00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,400
Speaker 2: about her debut solo album. She craved something so explicit

169
00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:44,000
Speaker 2: it would make faithful men sweat, something so enticing it

170
00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,679
Speaker 2: could make tail chasing bachelor's dream about marriage and baby carriages.

171
00:09:48,320 --> 00:10:18,000
Speaker 2: Something hardcore. Little Kim took too much.

172
00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:18,640
Speaker 1: This time.

173
00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,640
Speaker 2: She was doubled over on the stretcher. Her stomach spastened,

174
00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,480
Speaker 2: It squelched and squirmed like a rabid animal. She tried

175
00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:28,960
Speaker 2: to soothe herself. You know who you are, you little

176
00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,880
Speaker 2: Kim bitch. Nothing was too freaky for her. She could

177
00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,760
Speaker 2: take anything, wink wink, even a plastic tube shoved down

178
00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,840
Speaker 2: her throat. A paramedic pushed the tube through Little Kim's

179
00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,880
Speaker 2: nose and down her windpipe. He coaxed it into her stomach.

180
00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,360
Speaker 2: Then he switched on the suction fluid pumped through the tube.

181
00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,120
Speaker 2: Little Kim swallowed more than she could handle tonight, leaders

182
00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,800
Speaker 2: more so much that the liquid was eating away at

183
00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,880
Speaker 2: the lining of her stomach. Not drugs, not alcohol, Little

184
00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,880
Speaker 2: Kim needed her stomach pumped to remove all the Okay,

185
00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,440
Speaker 2: I'm gonna come right out and say it. There's no

186
00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,040
Speaker 2: way Little Kim consumed so much seamen that she needed

187
00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,240
Speaker 2: her stomach pumped. It doesn't even contain an active ingredient

188
00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,600
Speaker 2: that could hurt your internal organs. But I digress. The

189
00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,360
Speaker 2: urban legend that Little Kim needed to have come pumped

190
00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,240
Speaker 2: out of her in a medical capacity is one hundred

191
00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,679
Speaker 2: percent absurd, but that never stopped anyone from repeating it.

192
00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,080
Speaker 2: The myth was spread in high school hallways, record stores,

193
00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,840
Speaker 2: online message boards. Some versions added new details little Kim

194
00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:32,160
Speaker 2: collapsed on stage mid performance, that her flame with Biggie

195
00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,960
Speaker 2: was to blame. One version involved an elephant, which, come on, seriously,

196
00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:40,320
Speaker 2: you could speculate that Kim's nasty bars inspired such a

197
00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,319
Speaker 2: vulgar rumor untrue. This fable dated back to the nineteen seventies,

198
00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,680
Speaker 2: when people told the same story about Rod Stewart or

199
00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,880
Speaker 2: David Bowie. Britney Spears was featured in future versions. Gross

200
00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,360
Speaker 2: as it was, the stomach pump story was an urban

201
00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,320
Speaker 2: legend made for legends. It was a legend fit for

202
00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,640
Speaker 2: a queen, and Little Kim was quickly becoming just that.

203
00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,920
Speaker 2: Her debut album, Hardcore Sucked and Fucked its way to

204
00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,720
Speaker 2: number eleven on the Billboard two hundred and nineteen ninety six.

205
00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,840
Speaker 2: Listeners were seduced by Little kim sticky depictions of what

206
00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:13,760
Speaker 2: she could do to you and what she demanded you

207
00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,080
Speaker 2: do for her. Her rhymes about throwing lips on certain

208
00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:21,079
Speaker 2: body parts seduced Americans into buying one point five million copies.

209
00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,400
Speaker 2: And just in case anyone struggled to picture the pornographic scenes,

210
00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,480
Speaker 2: Little Kim described the album art included a photo.

211
00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:28,560
Speaker 1: To stimulate their imagination.

212
00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,680
Speaker 2: It's a snap of Kim squatting on the floor in

213
00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,600
Speaker 2: a cheetah print bikini, legs spread feathered robe, grazing her

214
00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,959
Speaker 2: bare skin bedroomise locked a camera level the Notorious Big

215
00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,040
Speaker 2: hand picked the photo from the album photo shoot. It

216
00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,880
Speaker 2: was one of his last tips for his lover and

217
00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,599
Speaker 2: protegee before he was assassinated just months later in the

218
00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:51,120
Speaker 2: spring of nineteen ninety seven. His death was proof that

219
00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,000
Speaker 2: the East Coast, West Coast beef and mainstream hip hop

220
00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,920
Speaker 2: had gone too far, But Biggie's absence was also proof

221
00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,400
Speaker 2: that Little Kim was nobody's pupp The Queen Bee could

222
00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,760
Speaker 2: rule on her own just fine. Kim loved Biggie fiercely,

223
00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,200
Speaker 2: but that didn't mean she needed him to sustain her career.

224
00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,600
Speaker 2: She countered her coins while Hardcore went platinum and then

225
00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:15,559
Speaker 2: double platinum. Her following record, The Notorious Kim, flew off

226
00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,320
Speaker 2: the shelves even faster. In two thousand, it was a

227
00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,840
Speaker 2: new century, a new era for women in rap music.

228
00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,320
Speaker 2: Dudes weren't the only ones bragging about their platinum plaques

229
00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,200
Speaker 2: and designer digs. Kim could afford to drape herself with

230
00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,320
Speaker 2: clothes from any of the brand she name dropped in

231
00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,040
Speaker 2: her songs Chanelle to Versace. She had so much cash

232
00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,960
Speaker 2: as she had a favorite kind of fur. It's chinchilla.

233
00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,120
Speaker 2: By the way, she kept her closet full of fur

234
00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,360
Speaker 2: coats for modest days, a fur bikini for everything else.

235
00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,360
Speaker 2: She wore a thirty carrot diamond belly chain. Pasties in

236
00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,720
Speaker 2: every shade, especially lavender let the one that caused Diana

237
00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,400
Speaker 2: Ross to jiggle Kim's exposed breast at the MTV Video

238
00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:50,160
Speaker 2: Music Awards in.

239
00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:51,160
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety nine.

240
00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:56,240
Speaker 2: She melded sex, style and songwriting into one persona lo

241
00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:58,280
Speaker 2: Kim would tell you to count the diamonds and her

242
00:13:58,320 --> 00:13:59,959
Speaker 2: rings and then demand to give it the same number

243
00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:05,520
Speaker 2: orgasms in one breath. Little Kim wasn't the first woman

244
00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:07,400
Speaker 2: to rap. She wasn't even the first woman to rap

245
00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,839
Speaker 2: about sex, but she was the first woman to tell

246
00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,040
Speaker 2: you she was down to fuck in explicit terms, just

247
00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:17,000
Speaker 2: like one of the men not have sex fuck. In

248
00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,400
Speaker 2: the mid nineteen nineties, there was another woman in hip

249
00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:23,040
Speaker 2: hop spelling out her desires, A certified fox. She put

250
00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,160
Speaker 2: her pussy right in the title of her debut album,

251
00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,160
Speaker 2: called it Lil Nana. It dropped one week after Hardcore,

252
00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:34,000
Speaker 2: and she went by the name of Foxy Brown. No

253
00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,080
Speaker 2: one knew where Little Kim's feued with Foxy Brown came from.

254
00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:38,120
Speaker 1: Didn't matter.

255
00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,160
Speaker 2: All hip hop fame came with a beef, and Little

256
00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,240
Speaker 2: Kim beef with Foxy Brown like she was at a steakhouse.

257
00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,480
Speaker 2: Their rivalry divided mainstream hip hop into two sides. Kim

258
00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,840
Speaker 2: had Junior Mafia behind her, Foxy Brown had Murder Unit.

259
00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,040
Speaker 2: As far as Kim was concerned, Junior Mafia was the

260
00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:59,040
Speaker 2: winning team because in the Mafia's land, loyalty does everything.

261
00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,520
Speaker 2: Brown could have shared that loyalty was Kim. They were

262
00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,760
Speaker 2: even supposed to make an album together. They were gonna

263
00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,760
Speaker 2: call it Thelma and Louise. But when you want to

264
00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,840
Speaker 2: be the Queen Bee but you can't be, people get mad.

265
00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:16,960
Speaker 2: At least that's how Kim saw it. Both women wounded

266
00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,440
Speaker 2: each other with their worldplay. Puffy even did some Kim's bidding.

267
00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,040
Speaker 2: Puffy and Kim hopped on a Little Ceesar's track play

268
00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,600
Speaker 2: Around in nineteen ninety nine, in which Puffy demanded that

269
00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,960
Speaker 2: a Little Kim copycat stopped trying to sound like her.

270
00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,840
Speaker 2: Kim continued the battle on the notorious k I Am

271
00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,120
Speaker 2: with a jab that Foxy wasn't a star and even

272
00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,640
Speaker 2: her label knew it. Foxy fired back on component Noriega's

273
00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,760
Speaker 2: two thousand album The Reunion. She damned the notorious k

274
00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:41,920
Speaker 2: I Am to the bottom of the bargain. Pin said

275
00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,320
Speaker 2: it was lame and weak. Not the woman named names,

276
00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:47,920
Speaker 2: but everyone knew who they were talking about. Little Kim

277
00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,280
Speaker 2: and Foxy Brown were vixens to the hip hop world,

278
00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,280
Speaker 2: but villains to each other. Kim didn't sweat it. She

279
00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,040
Speaker 2: knew who wore the pants in this new era of

280
00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,880
Speaker 2: hip hop? After all, who did the industry call?

281
00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:59,360
Speaker 1: When Pink, Christina.

282
00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,680
Speaker 2: Aguilera and Meyer remade Lady Marmalade for the Mulin Rouge soundtrack,

283
00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,000
Speaker 2: only one rapper boasted the crossover appeal to hang with

284
00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,280
Speaker 2: all the mainstream pop girls in two thousand and one.

285
00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,280
Speaker 2: The song was a half Phony French, half English, all sex,

286
00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,680
Speaker 2: but somehow nos swears banger. This new Lady Marmalade represented

287
00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,240
Speaker 2: all things fierce and female about the turn of the century.

288
00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,320
Speaker 2: It peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot one

289
00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,720
Speaker 2: hundred and stayed there for five weeks. It remains Little

290
00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:29,920
Speaker 2: Kim's best selling single to this day. So while Foxy

291
00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,440
Speaker 2: Brown talked shit, Kim was busy counting bank figures. And

292
00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:35,560
Speaker 2: if Foxy ever wanted to walk the walk and start

293
00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,200
Speaker 2: a proper fight, Kim would handle it like a real bitch.

294
00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:47,520
Speaker 2: When Little Kim rolled up, she rolled deep, Little Cease Larceny,

295
00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:52,080
Speaker 2: her bodyguard See Gutta, her manager Damian Butler, they all

296
00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:54,080
Speaker 2: trailed behind her, which she burst through the doors of

297
00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,680
Speaker 2: Hot ninety seven. She had a real treat for the

298
00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,520
Speaker 2: Manhattan radio station that afternoon. Three members of Junior were

299
00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:04,040
Speaker 2: in the building. The group disbanded years ago, literally in

300
00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,680
Speaker 2: the last century, but their names still carried wade in

301
00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,119
Speaker 2: the hip hop world. Besides, Little Kim, Lil Sea's and

302
00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,560
Speaker 2: Larceny were forever bonded by the land of the mafia.

303
00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:17,120
Speaker 2: Nothing could separate them. Hot ninety seven stacked its schedule

304
00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,800
Speaker 2: on that day, February twenty fifth, two thousand and one.

305
00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,959
Speaker 2: The DJ would interview Kim first, then he'd usher her

306
00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:24,760
Speaker 2: out the door and welcome guest number two.

307
00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:25,440
Speaker 1: For the afternoon.

308
00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,040
Speaker 2: Capone, as in one half of Capone in Noriega, the

309
00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,520
Speaker 2: very same Capone who allowed Foxy Brown to take aim

310
00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,480
Speaker 2: at Kim on his new album. Foxy's remarks were the

311
00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,359
Speaker 2: latest jab in their years a long feud. Their beef

312
00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,280
Speaker 2: was growing stale, tiresome. Kim's crew was ready to bury

313
00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,080
Speaker 2: it once and for all, even if it meant burying

314
00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:50,040
Speaker 2: Foxy Brown's posse. It was a scene straight out of

315
00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,919
Speaker 2: a Western Kim's crew was exiting the radio station. Capone's

316
00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,840
Speaker 2: crew stood in the street. Hot ninety seven wasn't big

317
00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,680
Speaker 2: enough for the two of them. You got beef with, little, Kim,

318
00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,040
Speaker 2: cried out. A member of Capone's crew answered with a

319
00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:06,920
Speaker 2: bullet that was seed gout us que. Kim's bodyguard reached

320
00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,120
Speaker 2: for the Mac eleven strapped under his vest military grade.

321
00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:11,160
Speaker 1: This was war.

322
00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,080
Speaker 2: Bullets flew across Hudson Street, straight into the walls of

323
00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:20,160
Speaker 2: nearby apartments, then straight into a member of murder Unit's crew.

324
00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:23,400
Speaker 2: A bullet pierced from the Copone's buddies in the back,

325
00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,479
Speaker 2: and the impact knocked him onto the sidewalk. He froze

326
00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:28,760
Speaker 2: in a growing puddle of his own blood. Pretended he

327
00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:30,840
Speaker 2: dropped dead, just in case someone else wanted to plant

328
00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,320
Speaker 2: a bullet in his brain for good measure. But Kim's

329
00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,320
Speaker 2: crew wasn't sticking around to survey the damage. She ducked

330
00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,640
Speaker 2: into her limmle with her entourage and tore us away

331
00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,479
Speaker 2: from the scene. The man who had been shot stumbled

332
00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:45,040
Speaker 2: to his feet his clothes soaked in blood. He staggered

333
00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,119
Speaker 2: into the street and hailed a cab to the hospital.

334
00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,800
Speaker 2: And that man lived, so did the beef. Loyalty in

335
00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,480
Speaker 2: the land of the Mafia was about to be tested.

336
00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,639
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this word, word word.

337
00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,200
Speaker 2: Little Kim scanned the options in front of her, frayed

338
00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,000
Speaker 2: daisy dukes, a champagne colored gown, a fire red top

339
00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,680
Speaker 2: embroidered with beating the Queen. A rap could do better.

340
00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,439
Speaker 2: This was no ordinary day in front of the camera.

341
00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:24,840
Speaker 2: Today was a promotional shoot for her new album, Naked Truth.

342
00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,560
Speaker 2: Where was the fur? The sequin pasties? Hell sent back

343
00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,480
Speaker 2: the Cheetah primt bikini from the hardcore album Mark. This

344
00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,560
Speaker 2: racket clothes was a force compared to Kim's wardrobe at home.

345
00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,480
Speaker 2: She forked over twenty to thirty thousand dollars every month

346
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,960
Speaker 2: to keep her style looking fresh. That meant a wig

347
00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,399
Speaker 2: for every hour of the day, over twenty five hundred

348
00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,840
Speaker 2: pairs of shoes, a designated room for each designer, three

349
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,760
Speaker 2: thousand manicures that decorated her nails. Shredded one hundred dollars bills.

350
00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,879
Speaker 2: Little Kim literally destroyed money to remind everyone she still

351
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,720
Speaker 2: wrapped for fat Stacks, just crunched the numbers for Labella Mafia,

352
00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,000
Speaker 2: her platinum record from two thousand and three. The outfits

353
00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,240
Speaker 2: in front of Kim today were not Bella. They were boring.

354
00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,720
Speaker 2: Queen Bee deserved better, but she didn't have any time

355
00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:11,639
Speaker 2: to complain. The clock was ticking, not from the record label,

356
00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:17,240
Speaker 2: the clock from the FEDCE. Lil Kim was going to jail.

357
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,720
Speaker 2: Kim didn't fire a gun that day outside of Hot

358
00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,320
Speaker 2: ninety seven in two thousand and one, she didn't so

359
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,680
Speaker 2: much as swing a fist, but she had another way

360
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,240
Speaker 2: of backing up her crew. She used the same lips

361
00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,960
Speaker 2: to put other wrappers on blasts. Lil Kim lied under

362
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 2: oath repeatedly in two thousand and one. In two thousand

363
00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,240
Speaker 2: and three, she testified that her manager, Damien Butler, wasn't

364
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,200
Speaker 2: at the scene of the shootout. Security footage from Hot

365
00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,040
Speaker 2: ninety seven said otherwise. A tape showed him standing beside

366
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:50,880
Speaker 2: her at the station before and during the shooting. Strike one.

367
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,120
Speaker 2: Then Damien pulled a gun and fired at Component's crew

368
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 2: Strike two. There was another lie. Kim said she didn't

369
00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,280
Speaker 2: know Sigutta, her own bodyguard. Strike three, you know You're out.

370
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 2: In March in two thousand and five, Little Kim was

371
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 2: convicted of lying to a grand jury and three counts

372
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 2: of conspiracy. The security tapes from Hot ninety seven alone

373
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 2: could have locked her up, but it got worse when

374
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,639
Speaker 2: her crew took the stand. Damian Butler and See Gotta

375
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 2: owned up to everything completed guilty. Larsen's accurate account as

376
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 2: an eyewitness shattered Kim's statement. So did Little Cease's testimony.

377
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,960
Speaker 2: Little Cease claimed he had no choice since he was subpoenaed.

378
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:28,920
Speaker 1: Bullshit.

379
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,880
Speaker 2: You always had a choice. Kim had a choice right

380
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,520
Speaker 2: either tell the truth, damn or crew er lie your

381
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 2: ass off and give them a chance of freedom.

382
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 1: She chose wrong.

383
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,720
Speaker 2: Now all her decisions revolved around finishing the naked truth

384
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 2: before her prison sentence. She had three days until she

385
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,919
Speaker 2: traded those designer clothes for an orange jumpsuit or whatever

386
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 2: women wore at prison camps. The judge assigned Kim the

387
00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 2: same destination as Martha Stewart. The court argued that Kim

388
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,680
Speaker 2: and Martha Stewart were stuck in the same boat.

389
00:21:58,040 --> 00:21:59,879
Speaker 1: That was a riot. One woman was a.

390
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,120
Speaker 2: Mild mannered homemaker guiding women toward their best domestic lives.

391
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 2: Then the other was the patron saint of sinners rap,

392
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,120
Speaker 2: but they were both liars inside her trading and perjury

393
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 2: were just two different forms of dishonesty, and the judge

394
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,480
Speaker 2: wanted Kim's sentence to mirror Martha's time in prison so

395
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 2: no one could cry discrimination. But Martha got five months

396
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 2: at a prison camp and Kim got a year and

397
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 2: a day. So much for keeping things. Even Kim knew

398
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 2: what she really was, she was an example the Feds

399
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,920
Speaker 2: could point to when they needed to demonstrate what happened

400
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 2: to rappers who stepped out of line. Her trial was

401
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,960
Speaker 2: just another battle in the government's war on hip hop.

402
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:39,560
Speaker 2: They indicted Kim for her music, not her lies. She

403
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 2: used her new album to make those politics loud and clear.

404
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 2: And the Naked Truth had balls and stripped away the bullshit,

405
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,399
Speaker 2: kept it body, sneered its snitches, boasted its allegiance to

406
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,199
Speaker 2: the bedside. And if he still wanted to spread rumors

407
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 2: that Little Kim was dead, broke or sniff and coke,

408
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 2: she had a specific message for you.

409
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: Shut up, bitch.

410
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 2: The Naked Truth even condemed Junior Mafia and anyone who

411
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 2: was still riding with him. In that chapter, Little Kim's

412
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 2: career was through. It was two thousand and five, for

413
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 2: Christ's sakes, The nineties were long gone, and so it

414
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 2: was Kim's trust. She could hear the inmates calling.

415
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 1: To her from where she sat on her bus.

416
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 2: They banged on the slittered windows and their prison cells.

417
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 2: Fists on glass rumbled like an earthquake. They were sending

418
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 2: a message, We've got your back. Her time was up.

419
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 2: No more sitting lovely and popping don Pe in the club,

420
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 2: No more three thousand dollars manicures, no more NonStop album hustle.

421
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 2: Little Kim's prison sentence began today, September nineteenth, two thousand

422
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 2: and five. Kim sent to decoy out of the bus first,

423
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 2: her cousin, also four foot eleven. That didn't fool the prisoners.

424
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 2: They held their clamoring until they saw the real deal.

425
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 2: Fans pressed against the bus door, and there was no

426
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 2: turning back now. Kim already tried to turn back the

427
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,200
Speaker 2: clock once, and her attorney called the Department of Probations

428
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 2: earlier that morning, requesting to push back her sentence.

429
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 1: No dice.

430
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,959
Speaker 2: The department claimed that if Kim wanted an extension so badly,

431
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 2: she should have asked earlier. Kim fought the urge to

432
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 2: clap back. Maybe she would have requested an extension earlier

433
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 2: if she knew where the Feds were actually sending her.

434
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 2: Just days earlier, Kim thought she'd be whisked away to

435
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 2: a low security federal prison camp.

436
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: That was all bullshit.

437
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 2: The Feds wanted her at the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center

438
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 2: as if she was the one who fired a gun. Meanwhile,

439
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,439
Speaker 2: America's glorified housewife got to frolic through a facility with

440
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 2: low fedss like it was a dinner party. But did

441
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,160
Speaker 2: Martha Stewart have dozens of prisoners banging on the walls

442
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 2: when she made her grand entrance. Be not, Kim had

443
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 2: allies waiting for her on the other side of those

444
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 2: cement walls. She had just as many loyal fans gathered

445
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 2: on the outside. She just hoped they'd still be there

446
00:24:50,760 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 2: when she finally walked back out. Little Kim did not

447
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 2: have to wait very long to find out if her

448
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 2: fans would stick by her side. Her kingdom awaited the

449
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,239
Speaker 2: moment she finished her prison sentence. The crowd outside the

450
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 2: detention center packed itself so tightly she could barely squeeze

451
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 2: herself out the door. Fans closed in from every angle, pushing, prodding, shrieking.

452
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 2: They thrust gifts in her path, wave signs in her face.

453
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 2: For months, Kim's fans sustained themselves with The Naked Truth,

454
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 2: would dropped barely a week into her prison time. That's right,

455
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 2: she dropped her fourth album from behind bars like she

456
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 2: didn't give a fuck if she saw how well it did.

457
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 2: It's still the only album from a female rapper to

458
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 2: be awarded a five MIC rating from the source real

459
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 2: gangster shit, But Little Kim was no gangster when she

460
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 2: was doing time. The Feds came out of prison early

461
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 2: on good behavior. She quickly made peace that she wasn't

462
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 2: going to her prison camp as promised, and she cultivated

463
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 2: a new routine to help her.

464
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: Pass the time.

465
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 2: Church on Sundays, Bible study on Tuesdays, karaoke on Christmas.

466
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 2: She made damn sure no one had a reason to

467
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 2: keep her locked up for a moment longer than necessary.

468
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 2: She was a threat to the rap game, not to inmates.

469
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 2: The Feds sprang her two months earlier, right before the

470
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 2: fourth of July two thousand and six. She would have

471
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 2: to endure a month under house arrest in three years

472
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 2: under supervision to fully complete her sentence, and that was

473
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 2: just fine by her. Kim was barely out the door,

474
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 2: and life already felt more normal. She was back in demand,

475
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 2: back to her chariot, a silver Rolls Royce, revved up

476
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 2: and ready to go back to the front page of

477
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 2: every celebrity magazine. Images of a little Kim leaving prison,

478
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 2: clutching a balloon in a bouquet of white roses made

479
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 2: the rounds in major music publications. She slipped into the

480
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,959
Speaker 2: backseat of the Rolls and the rush of fame flushed

481
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 2: her cheeks. For the first time in ten months. She

482
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 2: had work to do an MTV video, music its appearance,

483
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: to prepare for it, lavish parties to throw, relationships to reevaluate.

484
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 2: She glanced down at the bouquet in her lap and

485
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 2: the balloom bumping against the roof of the back seat.

486
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 2: Kim wasn't sure which parts of her circle were loyal anymore,

487
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 2: but she knew her fans were loyal to the death.

488
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 2: The freight elevator felt like an oven. The air conditioning

489
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 2: repairman Dabs swept from his forehead as it climb to

490
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 2: the roof of the Spotlight Live. It was an easy

491
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 2: gig if you could endure August afternoons slinging nuts and

492
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 2: bolts the top Manhattan skyscrapers. He just needed to get

493
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 2: into the utility shed on the roof and get out

494
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 2: as fast as possible. He needed a strong stomach, too.

495
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 2: He wretched when he opened the door to the shed.

496
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 2: The corpse inside was battered, caked with dried blood. Gorris

497
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 2: spilled from the head. Someone tried to bash this person's

498
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 2: brains in, maybe with a pipe, maybe with a champagne bottle.

499
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 2: Angered Rivera never found her flowers. Three nights earlier, on

500
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 2: August third, two thousand and eight, the barkeep she met

501
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 2: outside the club had no intention of guiding Ingrid to

502
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 2: her idol. It was a lie to get her alone.

503
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 2: He killed her while five hundred guests kept bottle service

504
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 2: busy downstairs, and then he shoved the evidence into the

505
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 2: utility shed on the roof of the building. No one

506
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 2: knew about Ingrid's murder, not the nightclub staff, not the partygoers,

507
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 2: not even the party's host. Little Kim Kim was heartbroken,

508
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 2: but she could probably relate at least a little bit.

509
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: Little Kim was a stone cold stunner who claimed she'd

510
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 2: kill a man for her man by any means. Her

511
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 2: loyalty was ironclad, but she couldn't say the same about

512
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 2: everyone around her. Kim trusted Biggie back in the day

513
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 2: when he wasn't pointing a gun at her. She trusted

514
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 2: her father until she became his punching bag just like

515
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 2: her mother. She trusted her crew so much that she

516
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: stuck her neck out for them in court, and then

517
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 2: they slid it when they testified against her and sent

518
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,719
Speaker 2: her to jail. Little Kim's fans were the only ones

519
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 2: who deserved her loyalty in protection, but even they trusted

520
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 2: the wrong people on occasion. Sometimes it ends in death,

521
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 2: but they all land in disgrace. I'm Jake Brennan in

522
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 2: This is Disgraceland.

523
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 3: Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly and is produced in

524
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 3: partnership with Double Elvis. Credits for this episode can be

525
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 3: found on the show notes page at disgracelampod dot com.

526
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 3: If you're listening as a Disgraceland All Access member, thank

527
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 3: you for supporting the show. We really appreciate it, and

528
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 3: if not, you can become a member right now by

529
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 3: going to disgracelamppod dot com slash Membership. Members can listen

530
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 3: to every episode of Disgraceland ad free, Plus you'll get

531
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 3: one brand new exclusive episode every month, weekly unscripted bonus episodes,

532
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 3: special audio collections, and early access to merchandise and events.

533
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 3: Visit disgrayslampod dot com slash membership for details, rate and

534
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 3: review the show, and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter,

535
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 3: and Facebook at disgracelampod and on YouTube at YouTube dot

536
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 3: com slash at Disgraceslampod, Rock a Roller, He

537
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: The bed Don Man