Fashionista/femcee Lil’ Kim is back in a big way with ‘I Am Not the One’ – the latest Itune single from the rap Queen Bee. Formerly Hip Hop’s female frontrunner, the diva now finds herself trying to catch up with the likes of another rapping wigged wonder. Yet, while busting Paypal charts wide open with her most recent release, such presence has yet to translate into Billboard placements. But, with new music on the horizon, that maybe set to change.
Is ‘I Am Not the One’ the one Kim needs for a hit? You decide after the jump:
Maybe not necessarily single material, but definitely a refreshing reminder of Kim’s spit over bars. Unparalleled delivery, even when her subject matter is questioned (or questionable), her voice fits the track and gives you a real New York feel. Unfortunately, even with that said, the dated number, which has been making rounds across the net, sounds like leftovers from a 2003 G-Unit session. Let’s hope it is the aforementioned and not real indication of what the Queen is cooking up. Because if this is even a hint at what she and Universal are readying, her fans will continue their starve for filling material from Miss Jones.
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GIRL BYE! NEXT
Real queen of hip hop HOTNESSSSSSS!
OMG TGJ this s*** is old news like 1-2 months old smh
I liked it.
It refreshing having an artist giving out real hiphop/rap and not that techno and Pop stuff. I love them something but it got real tiring after a while :/
This was good though
GRAPE JUICE QUIT HATIN. AINT NUTTIN OUT DATED THATS REAL HIP HOP! #I AM NOT THE ONE! KIM SPIT FYA!
Not single material. It sounds dated.—so if this sig doesn’t chart, are we officially allowed to say nicki is queen?
Quit Hating B******. Lil Kim Gave Hip Hop That Breath Of Fresh Air . Your Biased Ass Articles. How You Showing Love YET Shading Kim At The Same Time?
ANYWAY — Go Purchase I Am Not The One On iTunes! It’s HOT.
#LilKimItunesIAmNotTheOne
Hayol Naw!! this s*** will only set her back 2 years. lol….This bish ain’t got it in her no moe. Kim’s Albums were all written by Biggie. Thats why she gave him credit on em…cus he wrote em. she needs to go find another hobby…cus…well….Just LOOK at my username.
THIS S*** IS HOT!! WTF YOU TALKING ABOUT TGJ????? DAMN YA’LL HATE HARD!
This is real Hip Hop! Love it! It’s sad that the younger generation has been brainwashed by payola and garbage spreading across the airwaves describing itself as Hip Hop. Jay, Kayne, Mob Deep, Wales, Dip Set, Common, and Kim is keeping the streets alive. All that Techno Hip Pop is in a different league, I mean lower level but Young Money got ya’ll brainwashed. All hail the real queen of hip hop, not Pop Hop Minaj.
L0VE IT i b0UGHT IT blast full bass bumpin no stopin dropin it like is hot lil QUEEN B shes a go getter let her do her thinng she’s R0YALTY theres no need to be hate let roll so bow down to the majesty of them all…!!!!
i think this is going to FLOP. . . the beat is soo DATED. i mean i understand the real hiphop thing people are saying, but this is just plain BORING. and the lyrics are a BIGGER SNOOZE fest…. she says the same s***.. loubtions/shes a queen/ etc.
#NEXTTT
Love it..but not for singlee..but deff could bump to this in my car…
This is what real hip hop sounds like. I’m digging it.
Bish said she is Casey Anthony and u her child tho lmao yaaaassssss!!
No shade to other artists but I only Stan for KIM. Since 97.
This song is #108 on itunes Hip-Hop chart already!! I love it, Im excited for a new album
Look if there is a website that should not speak about Hiphop it is this website. You guys know nothing about real hiphop. Lil Kim just gave real Hiphop and i’m not surprised it went over y’alls head—————-> _/ _/ _/ have several seats Sam and co
If this charts then I will give her props but if it don’t then it’s over for her & teamkim cus they didn’t put there money where they mouth was.. Nicki would be crown queen if Kim does not hit tha charts. I will give this a BIG NOPE for now cus it does sound dated
I wanna see if this hits tha top ten if it dont and its only at 55 then it’s a wrap like that! Teamkim better prove teamminaj wrong or eles
If this thing does go to tha top ten it won’t mean anything.. Nicki will still be winning awards left & right like it’s nothing and Kim will still be sitting at home watching lifetime
THIS is hip-hop! I don’t have time for the other foolishness.
Yes Kim!!!!
@Kim career DEAD ghostbuster.. sooo biggie wrote all her albums but died after her first one……. hmm last time i checked. kim put out 3 albums and 2 mixtapes since his passing. I never knew the dead could write!
@CRAY, will you PLEASE say it again!!!!! I was thinking the same thing! lol!
Kim spit like a dude on this and not a lot of females can see her when it comes to some real hardcore s***. The music is dated. Sounds pre G-Unit… more like old Wu Tang/Ghostface Killa type late 90’s ish. Give her a beat she can ride to.
Is it true this single is only .55 cent? If so, TeamKim better come HARD and buy the s*** out of it.
This is good. This is recent music because she spits about Casey Anthony and getting off scott-free. So, this is after 2003. It’s too short to be a single with only clocking in at 2:27 but yes it is a nice reminder why we fell in love with the Queen Bee.
Add up the songs, O.D., Spend a Milli, Warning (BOMB verse), I’m Not the One shows that the Queen is s-l-o-w-i-ng doing what she needs to do. She doesn’t need to compete, she only needs to do her.
Clap, clap Queen Bee.
this is fire…hip hop i wanna hear…its def what i thnk she needs to be a reminder of whats she’s capable of….metaphors that make sense
LMAOOOOOOO! At all this “this is real hip hop” s***. You kim fans are so STUPID! kim does NOT write her own s***, every era she has new teams of ghostwriters. The beehive, the irs, etc. kim’s voice was altered to sound like this. She can’t rap that low cuz she has no nostrils anymore. This is horrible.
at least this is not a nicki diss..thats all i got to say about this.
@ yass like nicki font be saying the same dhit…most if her punch lines and metaphors are the same you stupid brainwashed b****
I’m backkkkkkkkkk hahahaha yea this is real hip hop lil Kim be killin em.. Kreayshawn also be killin em her gucci gucci song is at 55 on hip hop charts on iTunes.. Nicki minaj can’t see Kim & kreayshawn I’m going to call them double k haha Nicki is wack to me Oakland is back in tha mf’n house b******
this S*** is not about no #Team minaj or #team Kim they are two totally different peopleone is two and one is pop…half on mucous fanbase is between the dvds of 10-17,kims fanbase is the ’80’s early 90′ s who appreciate the real music from that area…Kim proved herself while nicki played gay to get her a fanbase,cuz before that her ass was rapping in pissy staircases so gtfoh trying to throw Kim shade
best thing about this is the single cover
Nicki is too busy BOWING DOWN TO TAYLOR SWIFT for singing Super Bass on the radio and turning the song into a sensation, which was not necessarily her intention, instead of BOWING DOWN TO KIM, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HER ENTIRE IMAGE!!!!!!
She would rather thank Kim in a collective group, Female Rappers past, present and future. SHE OWES KIM A SPECIFIC SHOUT OUT now that she is in mainstream. I don’t care how much Nicki gave Kim props when she was underground, she needs to do it on a large stage like she KISSED TAYLOR’S FEET ON A MAIN STAGE FOR THE WORLD TO SEE!
That’s why i can’t do Nicki no mo. She would rather name drop Anna Nicole Smith, Eli Manning, Dolly Parton, Ricki Lake, Lindsay Lohan than name dropping black hollywood scarlets.
@DIANE, right! I thought I was the only one who found that ingratiating move towards….um, that girl, nauseating.
But Nicki is not the queen of Hip Pop for nothing.
*bumps Dear Old Nicki*
It’s sad ppl can call this real hiphop. There’s such thing as having good ol hiphop and just plain boring music. jay Z an old head you don’t see him releasing boring ass music. No he still respected in the game cuz he can evolve with music of the young and old generation and still be the s***. Umm, Lil Kim can’t say the same. Her warning song had a better beat than this. This is crap, outdated. She need to go harder than this. This isn’t 2000 anymore.
@DIANE If Queen Nicki had come out rapping about sucking d***, gettin f***** with popcorn butter, and stuffing kilos in her p**** then I would’ve said hold up she’s biting kim! The only similarity between the two is a few wigs, one pose, and a few outfits.
I think Nicki does s*** on purpose to egg kim on and like a true moron kim falls for it and begins making songs about Nicki which makes Nicki look superior which now of course SHE IS! Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t. Nicki broke records and kim is just well, broke.
@I’MA HAVE TO SEND HER BACK TO HER MAKER, In terms of this song, I totally respect your opinion.
But speaking of the year 2000 and using Jay-Z as your reference, MANY people have called The Blueprint 3 (2009) absolute garbage. However, his 2001 album The Blueprint DEMOLISHES The Blueprint 3- this is fact. I happen to like The Blueprint 3 but it.is.nowhere close to The Blueprint.
An age of an album has nothing to do with its artistic integrity. Check Nas’ Illmatic. Would you call this album “outdated?”
You hear a “dated” beat on Kim’s song. I hear a classic New York style beat that I will never tire of–simple.
I love lil kim to death and im waiting for her to drop a track that will bring her back on top, but as the title of the song says, it is not the one. I like the fact that she stopped the high pitched squeaky thing she had going on and her flow is great. What i dont like is the way she is rapping. For example: QB about to drop bombs, taliban. To me that’s such a cheap way to rap. It sounds lazy and unskilled. Nicki does raps like that all the time and that was one of the reasons why i always saw kim at a higher level, but if she keeps this up she will lose respect as a lyricist. She can do much better than this. It wasn’t bad but i’m not feeling it.
BUT “SUPER BASS” IS REAL HIP HOP ? OH OK. LOL
TGJ yall need to quit…. stop throwing wack h** a** nicki down our throats!!!! Kim is a legend. This is my last time visiting this site
Im sorry but Kim go jard in this s***…. Kudos
@dagreatkingrock
Another Lil’ Kim CLASSIC under her belt. RAW HIP HOP. something the game lacks , this is the KIM everybody has been waiting for.. all the nicki fans regard ANY hip hop track (DATED) aslong as its against a generic pop club banger beat its a hit. but when its against a classic and melodic beat its dated. y’all just hate on kim for no reason. if nicki were to spit this same were for her second album y’all wud praise her for it
She had flow but the hook gotta have Kim doing it.
Her voice and delivery decent especially verse 1 but this IRS thang needs to take a back seat
@antertain when you say this IRS thing needs to have a seat. what do you mean by that ?
Hmmm… don’t like the beat and the song sounds old.
Boring, she needs something fresh!
great track !
go LK !
Hey Kim, its not 2000 anymore!!!!
Production wise it’s really sloppy, but her delivery is great.That’s the side of Kim I want to hear more often, she’s really coming back in terms of the quality of her verses.
I LOVE THIS NEW QUEEN BEE LIL KIM SONG I JUST GOT IT OFF ITUNES
F U GRAPE FRUITS YA’LL SOUND LIKE A NICKI FAN… THE SONG IS HOT!!! AND IT’S ONLY A BUZZ TRACK… I BROUGHT ME MY COPY, GET YOUR AND SUPPORT THE QUEEN!!! THE BEST IS YET TO COME… LIL KIM THE QUEEN OF HIP HOP IS OFFICAL BACK IN THE BUILDING!!! YES!!!
THIS IS MY SONG!!!! <3
<3 LOVE LIL KIM !
<3 THE ORIGINAL
<3 QUEEN BEE
<3 BEST RAPPER
<3 QUEEN KIM IS BACK
LIL KIM IS THE QUEEN OF RAP !
why it gotta be Kim better or Nicki better? yall dont do hat when it come to 2 men in the game. They are two different artists doing they thing. THIS MAY SUPRISE YOU BUT YOU CAN ACTUALLY LIKE BOTH OF THEM!!!! :O
I like it [shrugs]
Nice. And I like how Kim KNOWS this sounds dated, she even said she just did it for the fans who thought she lost her “hardcore” flow
@Mickie, when did Kim say that? Link please.
@Diane
On hot 97, this is just a hold over single until she announce her record deal next yr!
This site is a trashy mess! always coming for the QUEEN but the only way anyone will even read or come to this rejected wannabe mediatakeout trashpile is if yall are talking about Kim! There is clearly a LATE F***** BEHIND THIS SITE! lmfao! Get A Life! Kim is #76 on iTunes in less than 24hrs and still rising and hun Nicki has yet to do that! mind you Kim has no single or album or promo out! SIT!
This s*** is wack as f***. The production is horrible. She needs to leave the Supa Dapa flow to ppl who know how to use it. Buzz single, official single, whatever the f*** it is…dis is wack as f***!!!!!!!! Kim career is over. She should just make music for her fans cuz the world cud really give two f**** if dis B**** make music or not… Just sayin
this is a snippet
Guillotine Kim!!!!!
YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
P.S We all know Sam & Staff want’s to Walk a Mile in Nicki’s Louboutins….D*** Riders!
*Hits Repeat*
I Swear some of you h*** are sloopy ! Hating on queen bee, if she is outdated why are you checking for her by commenting ? ……. Oh ok !
This song is definately Real HIP HOP ! Compared to all these GIMMICKS running around having people BUY their Awards ! *cough*
Sorry but Kim is a straight rapper hands down; they made Nicki into a straight up clown with no rapping skills. You can’t even put Nicki into the hiphop/rap category.
I cant wait for Queen Bee to drop her new album. Naked Truth still on rewind!
TGJ won’t ya’ll telling 30 yr old Nicki to act her & a set up her vocabulary. She the reason why people saying Hip Hip making kids dumb. Her phoney disses. Her drawn out words, does not make her diss anything special but her sounding like a r*****. Then when her fans repeat what 30 yr old Nicki saying, make them sound even slower then Nicki.
^^Shut up, f**. Do you even listen to nicki’s music? Nothing dumb about her metaphors. That’s why nicki’sgreatestpunchlines was #1 trending on twitter. “B****** like crabs in the bucket. You see a bad b**** getting shine you should love it. Cuz everytime a door opens for me that means just gotta better opportunity to do you.”
the beef is sooo petty and childish. I’d rather see them do a track together.
@ I’ma have to send her back to her maker, That Tragic diss, how she drawn that word Raggedy Ann, I’m sure slow kids thought that was weak. Roman Revenge, hang up Flatscreen, weak. Washed & Ghostbuster, really Nicki.
Tell 30 yr old Nicki it’s time to be a woman or go after the true people in her lane Lil mama or Willow Smith.
& what’s up with the name calling, really f**, that’s all 30 yr old Nicki can teach you.
GRAPEJUICE equals BUTTMUNCH Hating on real Rap equals your downfall @ ThatGrapeJuice. Although you have your opinion ….WE LOVE KIM’ and Her Music DEAL WITH IT
Dear Grapejuice —Get Over Yourselves and get your head out Sesame Street Rap ass!
omg that was too short!! take them dudes out and make it longer it it would go OHH SOO HARD!
Can Lil Kim just bring out music for her fans. As long as her fans love. what does it out to do with 29 yr old Nicki fans.
Malibu Barbie
November 24, 2011 at 5:21 am
@antertain when you say this IRS thing needs to have a seat. what do you mean by that ?
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Thats her new crew IRS they called. They need to disappear with there wack rhymes
she killed it, end of the story!