Lil Kim’s followers are a step nearer to getting the icon femcee’s forthcoming memoir, The Queen Bee.
The Grammy-winning rapper shared a photograph of her manuscript on Instagram July 30. The booked and busy performer informed her beloved beehive that the edits have been “lastly performed” for her autobiography. She additionally shouted out her “bestie/soulmate,” clothier Marc Jacobs, for writing the physique of labor’s foreword.
Co-writer Kathy Iandoli expressed sentimentality on Twitter July 31 concerning her involvement in Kim’s memoir. The New York College professor and longtime hip-hip author shared that her collaborative work with Kim and Marc manifested from her admiration for the rap queen, which began many years prior.
Kathy recalled that she’d spent her “first large writing examine” on a Marc Jacobs bag “as a result of Lil Kim was his BFF.”
Noting how issues had come full circle, she mentioned, “Don’t ever deny the facility of manifesting.”
Spanning her 25-year profession, the e-book will shed insights into the various moments that formed Kim into the girl she is — and the icon followers know her to be.
The 256-page memoir will spotlight how she burst onto the rap scene as a teen within the ’90s and transitioned into her reign as Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s femme fatale. Following the success of her genre-defining debut solo album, Onerous Core, the autobiography will even recall Kim’s hip-hip domination and revered spot as a excessive vogue muse.
Relating to her private life, the e-book guarantees a uncooked discovery of the girl that’s Kimberly Denise Jones. Greater than her awards, recognition and affect, readers will uncover the “onerous work, hustle and heartbreak that went into securing her place on the throne.”
The autobiography’s writer, Hachette E-book Teams, describes The Queen Bee as “a fearless, inspiring, and refreshingly candid memoir.”
The e-book’s synopsis additionally famous that the memoir explored the rapper’s “legacy as a real feminist icon.”
“Lil’ Kim additionally talks in regards to the hidden moments of her reign: her sophisticated high-profile relationships, the misogynistic business she fought to alter by intercourse positivity, the difficult double requirements of self-image and wonder within the highlight, and the momentous act of loyalty that finally landed her in jail.”
“Along with her dynamic lyricism, her unflappable no-nonsense angle, her iconic seems to be each on and off the crimson carpet, and her unapologetic sexuality, Lil’ Kim shortly established herself as a power to be reckoned with—and was topped the Unique Queen Bee.”
Forward of its September 2025 launch, The Queen Bee is accessible for pre-order by way of all main e-book retailers.
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