He was so mad, but he knew that he would've wanted to see that picture too," she continued. You ain't gotta take no picture.' But I was like, 'Smile,' and he did. Method Man The What (46) Craig Mack Get Down (47) Gangstarr N-A (48) Eve What You Want (49) Ice Cube N-A (50) DJ Shorty Intro (51) Redman Smash Sumthin (52) Method Man Even If (53) Liks Best You Can (54) Nerd Lapdance (55) T.I. I was like, 'I gotta take a picture of you Big.' He was like, 'Girl, put that camera away. "I remember taking out this stupid cardboard camera I bought from the bodega. "I was like, 'Oh my gosh!' This was before I got really big, so I was in awe."' "I was like, 'You don't see all these people looking at you and screaming your name?' And he was just talking to me very humbly still," Kim revealed.
The pair got their earliest taste of fame in California when a crowd recognized him for the first time. Label: Strictly Breaks Records SB-9815 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: US Condition Media: VG Sleeve: NM Tracklist A1. We use cookies to let us know when you visit SoundCloud, to understand how you interact with us, to enrich and personalize your user experience, to enable social media functionality and to customize your relationship with SoundCloud, including providing you with more relevant advertising. In an interview with People, Kim shared a tender story about Biggie and how they first realized his career was taking off. SoundCloud may request cookies to be set on your device. One of those rappers, with whom she also had a notoriously difficult romantic relationship, was The Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls. Lil' Kim is widely considered one of the most influential rappers of all time: not only did she smash the glass ceiling for the women who came after her, but she kept up with the iconic hip-hop artists that defined the '90s.