Lil' Kim

Birthday: July 11, 1975

Born Kimberly Jones in 1975, rapper Lil' Kim (her stage name) grew up in the hellish and violent Bedford-Stuyvesant borough of Brooklyn, New York. Just after her 9th birthday, her parents divorced and she fell into the custody of her father, who threw her out of the house several years later. She thus spent her teenage years in a state of virtual homelessness, living with friends and on ...more