![]() Foxy’s loss of her hearing during the mid-2000’s robbed her of the ability to hear beats or the instrument that made her great in the first place: her own voice. Kim’s recent, uh, transformations have made her the subject of unforgiving social-media/meme ridicule. Recent history has not been especially kind, to either Kim or Foxy. Which makes it all the more impressive that not only were they able to navigate that terrain, they made history of their own, and changed the game in the process. They did so as soon as they arrived on the scene as teens, during the most hedonistic era in hip-hop history: the late 90’s. If you can get your head into that space, then perhaps you’ll have some idea, or a degree of empathy, of the prejudiced arena that Kimberly “Lil’ Kim” Jones and Inga “Foxy Brown” Marchand had to step into and face. This despite the fact that Hill Dawg’s husband statistically put more of their brothers, fathers and sons in prison than anyone over the course of his eight years of office, via mandatory-minimum drug laws in a socio-economic sneak attack called the 1994 Crime Bill.Īll of this is to illustrate that if you think, as the Oscar-winning song says, “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp,” imagine trying to keep your head above water in an America where the dominant culture, as well as the dominant attitude of the sub-culture you exist within (hip-hop), far too often regards you as a bitch or a hoe. Perhaps that’s why 93% of Americans under the Black/female dual-citizenship umbrella voted for the obviously flawed but considerably more qualified, less overtly race-baiting option of Hill Dawg on Election Day ‘16. That number is a far higher percentage than any gender/ethnic combined demo by a country mile. So if you think that’s hard? Try being a woman in America, while being Black at the same time. Politics aside, all it did was remind us of something that most reasonable people already knew: it’s easier to be a man than a woman in this world, or more specifically, in this country. We have Hamilton (the OG author of The Federalist Papers, not the Broadway cast) and his Electoral College to thank for this fact. And well, we saw how that turned out, despite the female candidate getting nearly two million more endorsements than the man in the popular vote. November 2016 was the closest America has come to electing a female President. Happy 25th Anniversary to Lil’ Kim’s Hard Core and Foxy Brown’s ‘Ill Na Na,’ their debut albums originally released Novemand November 19, 1996, respectively. ![]()
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