Hey,
If you haven't realized from reading the blogs that I've written so far, I'm a New York native. And unlike many of the posers, I am not from the suburbs, from some weird place near New York City, I am from there. I was born and raised (for a while) on the South Side Jamaica Queens, home of 50 Cent and a bunch of other of those jokers, as well as my favorite rapper NaS. So, anytime that anything New York related comes out towards Chicago, people I know ask me my opinion on it. So, there's this movie coming out about Biggie. After a nationwide search, they found an unknown actor to play him, and this actor (Jamal Woodard) said he went to Juillard to work with a vocal coach to get the voice of Biggie down.
*Dead*
Even with the fascination I have for Biggie's life and learning more about him...
There's one reason and one reason only why I will not be going to see Notorious.
Lil' Kim is not with it.
And as her fan, I gotta support her.
Say whatever you want, but I love Lil' Kim. She's my favorite female rapper, period. I'm not a fan of some of her ho-ish antics, but she is who she is. After meeting her and going to her concerts on more than one occasion during my summers in New York, I can say that her music is a perfect representation of her. She is who she is. Like her or not, she's gonna be that. If you like it, buy the cd... if not, go f**k yourself. That's her mantra, and as a confident woman, I love that! I've always been more of a Kim fan than a Big fan. I liked the stories that Big told in his songs, but I loved the passion and arrogance that Kim brought to hers. Even if the story was about some random sexual encounter, or even how some wanna be tried to holla, her delivery was bananas to me...and I had to get as much of her music as possible. When my mom found out I was listening to her, she made me give her all of my Kim cd's with the intent to throw them away, which made me so upset. Then, before she threw them away, I asked her to listen to my side and not just the words. When she realized that I wasn't taking the words as edicts for my own behavior, she let me have them. Happy day! LOL. I even had my mom listening to some of her stuff...and while she never really understood why "such a pretty girl just had to be so trashy", she allowed me to keep my Lil Kim music.
I even dressed up as her in high school, for favorite celebrity day senior year, and I took my costume from this video. The song is called "No Matter What People Say" and my costume was just like her outfit at 2:39. It took me a week to make it, and I had a blonde wig dyed like hers. I even memorized the entire dance sequence and "performed" as I went about my business that day at school.
We all know that Big and Kim had a relationship, and it was full of passion, determination and strength...possibly even more so than the relationship that Big had with Faith. And my girl does not like the movie, more specifically, the way she is portrayed in it. So, like her, I'll catch it on bootleg, on cable or if ever.
*Thoughts?*
Ashley Robin
