{"id":491048,"date":"2019-10-09T01:15:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=896809"},"modified":"2019-10-09T01:15:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:15:10","slug":"watch-lil-kims-career-spanning-performance-at-bet-hip-hop-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-lil-kims-career-spanning-performance-at-bet-hip-hop-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lil Kim\u2019s Career-Spanning Performance at BET Hip Hop Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-09-at-8.11.29-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>After being awarded the I Am Hip Hop Award by Rick Ross at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-kim\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-kim\" data-tag=\"lil-kim\">Lil Kim<\/a> closed out the show with a medley of some of her most memorable songs. The rapper was joined by O.T. Gensis, Musiq Soulchild and Junior M.A.F.I.A.<\/p>\n<p>In the performance, Lil Kim opens up with \u201cLighters Up,\u201d from her album <em>The Naked Truth<\/em>. During the medley, she also takes on Junior M.A.F.I.A.\u2019s \u201cPlayer\u2019s Anthem\u201d and her verse on Puff Daddy\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s All About The Benjamins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During her acceptance speech for the I Am Hip Hop Award Lil Kim thanked several people, including Biggie. \u201cI don\u2019t know if ya\u2019ll know what it\u2019s like to have an angel following you all the time, but that\u2019s Biggie,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m gonna always love him and I\u2019m gonna always ride for him. I don\u2019t play about him. That\u2019s just what it is: Brooklyn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9GheCnRMVT8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lil Kim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-kim-pray-for-me-9-rick-ross-music-soulchild-895113\/\">will release<\/a> her next album, <em>9<\/em>, on October 11th. It will be her first in over 14 years. Last week she shared a track off the album, \u201cPray for Me,\u201d featuring&nbsp;<a id=\"auto-tag_rick-ross\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rick-ross\/\" data-tag=\"rick-ross\">Rick Ross<\/a> and Musiq Soulchild. The album will also include her previously released tracks \u201cFound You,\u201d featuring O.T. Genasis and City Girls\u2019 Yung Miami, and \u201cGo Awff.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m so proud of this album and I thank my fans for their continued support,\u201d Kim said in a statement. \u201cLet\u2019s keep this party going!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-kim-perform-bet-hip-hop-awards-896809\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being awarded the I Am Hip Hop Award by Rick Ross at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards, Lil Kim closed out the show with a medley of some of her most memorable songs. The rapper was joined by O.T. Gensis, Musiq Soulchild and Junior M.A.F.I.A. In the performance, Lil Kim opens up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 22:30:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}