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Discrease land is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about Lil Kim are insane.

She lived on the streets when she was 14 to escape her abusive father.

She survived the shootout when her beef with a fellow rap star lit up a manhattan radio

station.

She committed perjury to save her crew from prison time.

They didn't return the favor.

She straddled the sex positivity movement with lyrics that reinvented what it meant to be

a woman in hip-hop.

Her music counted the diamonds in her rings and told the world that's how many times she

wanted to finish.

She's a walking, quote-unquote, explicit content sticker that paved the way for songs like

Cardi B and Megan the Stallions' Watt, even 25 years after Lil Kim's solo debut.

Few rappers expose their sexuality like she can, because Lil Kim makes filthy and great

music.

Unlike that loop I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my melaton called You Better Get Bad Jack MK2.

I played you that clip because I can't afford the rights to stutter by Joe featuring Mystical.

And why would I play you that specific slice of two-time in R&B cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on February 25th, 2001, and that was the day

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