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Celeb Photos: Lil' Kim 97' PaperMag Interview: Sex, Feminism, **** & More
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Lil' Kim 97' PaperMag Interview: Sex, Feminism, **** & More
READ THE FULL INTERVIEW - IT'S SO ****ING GOOD
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In honor of Lil Kim's birthday today, we're saluting the Queen Bee by re-posting our May 1997 cover story on the rapper by bell hooks. The interview, which happened seven months after the release of Kim's breakout LP Hard Core, focuses mostly on the double standards that female celebrities embracing their sexuality endure. Even in a post-Miley-VMAs world, many of the questions in this nearly 20-year-old q&a could still be posed to most overtly sexual female performers today. Still, the answers that Kim gives are refreshing and real -- show us a platinum-selling rap star today who would go on the record about enjoying anal sex in a national publication -- making Kim's voice here all the more important. Check out the interview below.
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In pictures, Lil' Kim looks like the images that used to appear in the sleazy black **** magazine Players. As teenagers, we used to laugh at those pictures. Women in them were always "overdone." Sometimes they looked like raggedy drag queens -- a bit rough around the edges. As representations of the hyperfemme, they called out the lack of imagination in sexist, straight male fantasies. Naturally, it's been a bit puzzling to me to see "old" stuff revamped as new and daring. The only new thing happening here is that it took so long for a hip-hop girl to make the down-and-dirty talk pay her bills big-time. Mark my words. Long before Lil' Kim could speak, smart ****s of all ages were talking trash. To talk trash and get paid has always been harder for women than for men. This 21-year-old has gone where others have not been able to go
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bell hooks: We have a lot of things in common. We're both into being bad girls, into fashion, into talking on the down low. So I've been really pissed off: I've been talking to folks about you and they keep saying, "Oh, she's a ho." And I keep thinking, Well, all these dudes, when they're talking ****, they're not ho's. Nobody talks about John F. Kennedy being a ho 'cause he ****ed around. But the moment a woman talks about sex or is known to be having too much sex, people talk about her as a ho. So I wanted you to talk about that a little bit.
Lil' Kim: Well for one, I can say that I do not have too much sex. I hardly have any sex, O.K.? A lot of people get the wrong perception of me. I talk about all that sex I was doing as something I went through in the past. I did all kinds of freaky things after every show.
bh: When did you start thinking of yourself as a sexual being who had a right to her sexual desire?
LK: I guess as soon as I started, really, which was in my late teens. But even before I was rappin', it was like whatever I wanted to do, I just did it. I became free with it, like, "Whatever, yo. I don't care if he tell his friends." 'Cause you know, when you're younger, it's like, "I don't want you to tell your family. No, don't tell your friends if we have sex." But now it's like, "We havin' sex. Tell whoever -- make sure you tell 'em how good I did it!"
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bh: What was your line on Hardcore, "Take it up the butt"? Don't be funnin'. What do you think about that?
LK: I think it's real.
bh: Tell me what you mean when you say it's real -- that a lot of people are getting ****ed in the butt?
LK: Exactly. I mean, there are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it. And I'm like, "Yeah, I take it in the butt. That's right. Whatever."
bh: A lot of people are talking about you as an example of sexy feminism, as a liberated woman. What do you think? Do you think you represent the liberated woman or the sexy girl of men's fantasies?
LK: Both. The reason why I say both is that we have been set back years -- everybody says that. Sometimes they say I set back women's liberation.
bh: I don't think that, but go ahead.
LK: I don't think that either. You wanna know why? Because we have people like Too Short, Luke Skyywalker [of 2 Live Crew], Biggie [Smalls], Elvis Presley, Prince, who are very, very, very sexual, and they don't get trashed because they like to do it. But all of a sudden, we have a female who happens to be a rapper, like me, and my doin' it is wrong. And 'cause I like doin' it, it's even more wrong because we've fought for years as women to do the same things that men are doing.
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bh: But now Lil' Kim, you talk about being real, but let's get real: Most women that are selling their ******* are not getting a lot of money.
LK: Then they shouldn't be doing it.
bh: So do you feel like getting a lot of money fast makes you hungry for more money?
LK: Yes it does, of course.
bh: That's why I say, Greed is a mother****er.
LK: It's a mother****er. Especially when you're used to having ****. And let me tell you something: It's always nice to want money and keep doin' what you gotta do to get it, but do not be greedy. That's one thing about me: I'm not greedy. I buy things for my friends if I buy them for myself. I make sure my friend's rent is paid.
bh: How do you feel about ****? (filming ya sex)
LK: I really wanna address that. Like I said, I'm a sexual woman. When they turn on the spotlight, it just makes me wanna get down.
bh: Were you into **** yourself?
LK: Of course. I'm still into ****. I love to watch 'em, because for one, that's the safest type of sex you can have. And not only that, it introduces you to many sexual positions that you can
do with your partner.
bh: One thing, Miss Kim, that I don't see much talk about in your interviews is love. What's love got to do with it?
LK: I don't have that.
bh: But what do you think about it? I know you think about it.
LK: I was in love with somebody recently and he hurt me bad. Three, four years we been together and it's not working. It seems like everywhere I go I can't get real love.
bh: Do you think that people are replacing part of the greed for the fast money and the clothes and the fame because they don't have no love?
LK: I do. When I went out on the street, I was having problems with my boyfriend. I mean, guys used to tell me I wasn't ****, I always gotta rely on them, like, "You ain't **** without me. You always goin' to need me." Till this day I need that person, so they say, "You need me. You can't ****ing make it without me. You're ugly." You know what I'm saying? "You ain't all that," bababa.
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bh: Tell me what you mean when you say it's real -- that a lot of people are getting ****ed in the butt?
LK: Exactly. I mean, there are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it. And I'm like, "Yeah, I take it in the butt. That's right. Whatever."
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Originally posted by Musickid203
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i love her so ****ing much, she does NOT hold back!
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Lil Kim is who I aspire to be. 
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I read the interview and it seems that she does not hesitate to say what she has got to say. Her selection of words is just so direct. 
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I love how blatant she is. Those pics are
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one of her best interviews
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i love her so much.she RT'd me 2 days ago 
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bh: Do you think that people are replacing part of the greed for the fast money and the clothes and the fame because they don't have no love?
LK: I do. When I went out on the street, I was having problems with my boyfriend. I mean, guys used to tell me I wasn't ****, I always gotta rely on them, like, "You ain't **** without me. You always goin' to need me." Till this day I need that person, so they say, "You need me. You can't ****ing make it without me. You're ugly." You know what I'm saying? "You ain't all that," bababa.
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So true. It makes me sad how emotionally abusive some people really are in relationships. Like it's a damn shame sort of thing. I hate those types of people forreaal.
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So true. It makes me sad how emotionally abusive some people really are in relationships. Like it's a damn shame sort of thing. I hate those types of people forreaal.
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tbh!!!!!!!!!
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