Lil Kim - La Bella Mafia

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Rating: 2 Stars

Kim has nothing to say. It's the same, "I look so good", "My oral sex skills are this or that", "I'm balling", "Biggie this, Biggie that", and then to show her true confusion, she'll start talking about God or again, how she's gonna be okay without Big Poppa here. Kim's lyrics aren't that quotable and she doesn't seem believable. Being nasty and tired isn't representing Black women so she needs to get off that. Aside from boring topics, there's also a lack of confidence on Kim's part. "La Bella Mafia" has too many guest stars who have NO chemistry with the 4'11" rapper. The tired sex rhyme, "Magic Stick", with flavor-of-the-month 50 Cent reeks of Sound Scan pandering. Yet the track is weak. The beat is listless. 50's verse is obviously phoned in and Kim's wicked sexual prowess sounds old and stale.
"Thug Luv" with Chi-Town legend Twista sounds so average and like with 50, Kim has no chemistry with the tied tongue wonder. The club romp "The Jump Off" is dated and a stereotypical Lil' Kim track. Timbaland lays down a surprisingly standard beat. "Hold It Now" and "This Is Who I Am" are boring and just some filler-ish tracks for Kim to brag about her fictional appeal.

"This Is A Warning" finds Kim threatening to "poision[an adversaries'] food" and singing to the R. Kelly slow jam "A Woman's Threat". The song is funny for all the wrong reasons. Aside from all the boring tricks and average production, surprisingly Kim, does have some halfway decent tricks in her Prada bag. "Can't F*** With Queen Bee" is humorous self-parody. Singing a haughty allegiance of self to the tune of Denience Williams' classic "Free". Along with Full Force singing background and Kim's quips, it's actually a good track. "Shake Ya Bum Bum" is a one-off club jam produced by Swizz Beats that's fun and harmless. Also, "Heavenly Father" finally finds Kim going beyond fashion, sex, and arrogance, to talk about her break from Junior M.A.F.I.A. and her deeply rooted faith. With a sped-up O'Jays sample, it's actually well-done and finds a new side to Kim.

By the time this overfilled, overtly pointless set is over with "The Beehive", an eight minute rave up of her new crew of the same name (they're basically the new Junior M.A.F.I.A.) and the year old "Come Back For You" where she obligatory swings at rival/sister Foxy Brown as well as Eve and Trina(?),two other newbies who Kim feels are being disrespectful to the self-proclaimed "Queen Bee", you start yawning. Kim is a sweet person and outside of the nasty image, you feel the need to protect her. With better producers, a more stable mental condition(this overbalance of Biggie is really unhealthy), and a more stable sound, I could see her succeeding. "La Bella Mafia" doesn't come close to Kim's ex-best friend Brown's stellar "Broken Silence" opus but since, the two one time multi-platinum dames seem to be plagued by bad decisions, industry drama, and personal turmoil(for Fox, it's the breakups, bad label deals, and a miscarriage; Kim, it's the bitter split with Puffy and Junior M.A.F.I.A. and the inability to fully move apart from Biggie, whose been dead for 6 years), maybe they could do a record together. Giving two embattled femme-cees who have the spunk a chance to grow, musically and importantly, as grown women.

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