Songoftheday 7/22/20 - Yeah I Momma Miss Ivana usually rock the Prada, sometimes Gabbana, stick you for your cream and your riches...
from the album Hard Core (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #18 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13
Today's song of the day comes from female rapper Lil' Kim, who was born Kimberly Jones in Queens, New York. Originally a high school dropout, she met Christopher Wallace, who would go on and record as the Notorious B.I.G., who hooked Kim up with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs of Bad Boy records, who both helped her finish school and start her music career. Wallace created the rap collective Junior M.A.F.I.A. in the mid-1990s, which included Kim on their album Conspiracy, which spun off two top-40 pop hits with "Player's Anthem" and "Get Money", the latter in the spring of 1996. At that time she was also starting to record her first solo album Hard Core, and her personal relationship with Wallace entangled with her professional one (she later admitted to ending a pregnancy with Wallace). In the fall of 1996, Kim released her first "solo" single, "No Time" featuring Puff Daddy. At that time it was Combs' first major "feature" on a single, and with the hype between the both and their relationship to Biggie, Kim found herself with her first hit, though for the life of me I don't remember this at all even when played....
"No Time" became Lil' Kim's (and Puff Daddy's, for that matter) first top-40 pop hit in January of 1997. The single also rose to #9 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, while topping their Rap Singles chart for nine weeks. Internationally, the single just missed the top-40 in the UK at #45. The Hard Core album, released in November of 1996, came in just under the top ten at #11 on the Billboard 200 sales chart, going on to sell over two million copies.
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Here's Lil' Kim and Puff Daddy appearing live on Showtime At The Apollo to promote the single...
Up tomorrow: British grungers get eaten up whole.
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