Lil’ Kim is an American rapper with an estimated net worth of $18 million. She was born on July 11, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York. She’s born Kimberly Denise Jones, and much of her life was spent living on the streets of New York after her parents kicked her out of her home at a young age. She is someone who did not have a very easy life, and much of her rapping skills reflect that when she does write her own music and make her own statements. Lil’ Kim did not have a very easy lifestyle, but that did not stop her from looking up to Diana Ross for inspiration in her musical work, thought the two are so vastly different from one another.
Her father was a Marine and her mother was a homemaker. Her parents divorced when she was only nine, and she lived with her father. She and her father had a very tumultuous and very unappealing relationship and that caused her to end up kicked out and homeless when she was only in high school. She made the decision to quit attending school and forget her education in favor of learning to do a better job rapping. She alternately stayed with friends and lived on the street until her rap game took off and her career really panned out for her.
In the early 90s, Lil’ Kim would rap freestyle raps around New York hoping that someone might notice her and want to give her a chance. She finally got that chance in the mid-90s when hip hop star Notorious B.I.G. noticed her and wanted her to perform on some of his hottest tracks. She was part of the Junior M.A.F.I.A., which was a successful group put together by P. Diddy’s Bad Boy Records. Being part of that allowed her to make three hit songs and then focus on her solo career, which included the debut of her first album in 1996. To date, she’s released four major albums, collaborated on dozens upon dozens of hit songs with famous rappers, and she’s been on reality television more than once.
Her personal life has been a bit of a mess her entire life. She dated a young man who ended up in prison for much of their relationship, and then she began an affair with the very married Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997. She states that she was pregnant with his child at one point and that he called her only three days before he was killed to profess his love for her. She later dated another man who physically abused her. Over the years, she’s dated a number of other high-profile men, had a baby in 2014 and underwent extreme plastic surgery in 2016 that has caused her fans and the media to wonder why she looks the way she does, claiming she looks white and not like herself. Lil’ Kim is very talented in her musical genre, and fans hope she will continue to make music.
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