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Lil Kim was one of the many Hip Hop legends who took the stage at the 2022 BET Awards on Sunday night (June 26) to honor Bad Boy Records founder Diddy. The 52-year-old multi-millionaire used to be this year’s recipient of the BET Lifetime Achievement Award and treated to a career-spanning tribute that incorporated performances from Faith Evans, Shyne and Jodeci.

But of direction, Lil Kim straight away turned into a Twitter target for her frame and the clothes she used to be dressed in. Stepping out in sheer tights, reduce blazer, high heeled boots, green, slicked again hair and aviator shades, Kim rocked the BET Awards level — or at least attempted. The 47-year-old rapper appeared to stumble over her “It’s All About The Benjamins” verse and revel in some technical difficulties during her time within the highlight. Still, other folks couldn’t stop ridiculing Kim for her thighs, with some evaluating her to a rotisserie rooster.

lil' kim performing at the bet awards, 2022 pic.twitter.com/T5cwdTmuQ5

— easiest of lil' kim (@lilkimfiles) June 27, 2022

What some other folks don’t realize is Lil Kim first underwent plastic surgery in 2004 after an ex-boyfriend beat her so badly she could’ve died. In a 2005 interview, Kim spread out in regards to the abuse she suffered, saying on the time, “I simply got out of a courting with a very abusive man. I have had a black eye, bloody lips, bruised nostril.

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“I got here out of the health facility from getting my nostril completed and he broke my shit again. I've needed to have MRI’s as a result of he beat me up so dangerous I couldn’t even move. I had blood clots I my again. One day, a voice informed me you higher depart right now. I needed to leave from my own rattling house.”

I bear in mind when I first discovered that Lil Kim's preliminary cosmetic surgery used to be for corrective causes because of abuse. I finished speaking shit about her appears then.

Cuz that fucks w/some worse than others & I costs me nothing to be quiet.

— Sometimes I'm moody, heaux ? (@jTwiced) June 27, 2022

Lil Kim later talked about the ache she continued right through a 2005 interview with Angie Martinez and explained she wasn’t in an abusive courting as a result of of low vainness; she merely fell sufferer to thinking she may just change him. She additionally admitted, “I was just a little useless on the time, looking to easiest. I’m a perfectionist.”

Despite Lil Kim’s tumultuous trail, folks frequently fail to remember to have compassion and empathy for a woman who’s skilled such a lot — even some of her peers. In June 2021, 50 Cent compared Lil Kim to an owl following her closing BET Awards efficiency.

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Just months later, he posted an Instagram clip of Lil Kim comparing his “Magic Stick” collaborator’s wobbling dance to Lubdan, the troll-looking persona from the 1993 comedy horror film Leprechaun. He wrote, “I’m sorry i realize it’s early but i don’t know why shit like this is funny to me LOL.”

Lil Kim Clowns 50 Cent Over Rejected Dinner Date After Owl Comparison

But Kim being Kim, she returned with a few jabs of her personal. Shortly after 50 Cent posted the owl meme, she replied, “The accuracy, hilarious. I ain’t no longer one bit. My family & buddies extra mad than me. Shit like this don’t move me one way or every other reason I’m nonetheless a bad bitch that n-ggaz bitches, mommies, daughters, and aunties still need to be till at the moment and I find it irresistible!!”

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She added, “@50cent I see u still in ur feels about that dinner date u requested me on that I had to flip down. Let it pass u have an attractive girlfriend, I've a loving husband. Let it cross. And for those of u coming at my husband, Mr. Papers, he did actual n-gga shit. What a husband is suppose to do. All y’all can go to hell. Not Respectfully.”

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