Women in them were always "overdone." Sometimes they looked like raggedy drag queens - a bit rough around the edges. As teenagers, we used to laugh at those pictures. In pictures, Lil' Kim looks like the images that used to appear in the sleazy black porn magazine Players. 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. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() 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.
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