FACING THE MUSIC

摘要

Afew days before she was scheduled to start serving her prison sentence, Kimberly Jones —you know her as Lil' Kim-was ensconced on a plush sofa in a dimly lit recording studio in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. Her mind was somewhere else. As the friends and associates around her laughed and chattered about Michael Vick's speed on the football field and shopping on eBay, the Queen Bee, as they call her, sat silently, apparently in a world of her own—until one friend announced he was leaving to get a bite to eat, and she snapped back into focus. Where was he going? When would he be back? For the rapper known for her bold and raunchy lyrics (and a fashion sense to match), it was a revealingly vulnerable moment. Time was running out on her—were all her friends running out, too?