but why kim … why?

“This is not a Lil Kim movie. This is a Christopher Wallace movie.”

By John Charles Reedburg

A good way to get back into the limelight.

All of Hollywood is buzzing about the upcoming B.I.G. biopic Notorious, but there’s one person who is dreading the release: LIL’ KIM.

Since the rapper was her mentor and boyfriend (in one of those ultra-tumultuous relationships), she’s obviously a huge part of the plot, and apparently she doesn’t feel like she’s being accurately portrayed. Lil’ Kim released this statement to the AP:

“The film studio and producers involved were more concerned about painting me as a ‘character’ to create a more interesting story line instead of a person with talent, self-respect and who was able to achieve her own career success through hard work.”

“Even though my relationship with Big was at times very difficult and complicated (as with most relationships we have all experienced at one time or another), it was also genuine and built on great admiration and love for each other. Regardless of the many lies in the movie and false portrayal of me to help carry a story line through, I will still continue to carry his legacy through my hard work and music.”

No need to point out that this is a Hollywood movie, and Lil’ Kim is, in fact, a character in said movie. Or that we all like to consider ourselves to be people who “achieve our own success through hard work” but would probably look worse than Lindsay Lohan in a Samantha Ronson biopic if people really knew how we pick dramatic fights with our significant others.

B.I.G.’s mother Voletta Wallace shot back in an interview this week, saying:

“This is not a Lil Kim movie. This is a Christopher Wallace movie. It has nothing to do with Lil Kim. If she’s disappointed and upset, that is her problem.”

The bottom line: no one involved in the making of the movie seems to care at all how Lil’ Kim felt about her portrayal. My advice is that she cut her losses and feel satisfied that history has been good to her in the form of her Notorious counterpart Naturi Naughton and honestly I think that Naturi does a little too good of a job in portraying Kim. She doesn’t deserve that much credit. Excuse for being so mean. But maybe this is Kim’s call for scream for attention or better yet, career recitation. LOL!

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