Lil' Kim

After her high-profile trial, which resulted in a perjury conviction and a short prison sentence, Brooklyn bombshell Lil' Kim releases her frustrations on wax. On her third solo album, she addresses her legal woes ("Slippin'"), fires back at haters ("Shut Up B*tch"), and teams up with Snoop, the Game and T.I. Royal rhymes from the Queen Bee.

Lil' Kim could be excused were she to sound knocked back on her stiletto heels: During
this annus horribilis, the rapper born Kimberly Jones has been stalked by the tabloids and
Newsweek, dissed mercilessly by her former crew Junior M.A.F.I.A. and finally, last month,
imprisoned on a perjury charge. But Kim neither wants your sympathy nor, from the sound
of her ferocious, unflinching new album, does she need it. Kim's fourth album, T... More >

Throws her voice around more and her pussy down hardly at all ("Spell Check," "Lighters Up"). (Grade - **)