Are you kidding me........

Listen...I know that things like this can cause a frenzy, but all of you be honest...
"NEW YORK (AP) - Lil' Kim rose to fame as a tough, raunchy gangsta girl, the Queen Bee of female rappers with rhymes that cast her as a powerful figure - a female Don in the male-dominated world of rap.
Now, as she prepares to release her latest album Tuesday while behind bars, the diminutive diva has added a new element to her persona - victim. In Kim's eyes, she's been preyed on by an overzealous government trying to punish hip-hop and jealous former friends who ratted her out in the courtroom.

"There's no reason why I should be going to jail. There's no reason why. There's no reason. I didn't shoot anyone, I didn't do anything wrong the way they would say," she told The Associated Press in her waning days of freedom. "It's not as bad as it could have been, but do I think it was fair? No."
Kim reported to a federal detention center in Philadelphia on Monday to serve 366 days for lying to a grand jury investigating a 2001 shootout involving members of her entourage and a clique loyal to her archenemy, rapper Foxy Brown.

On her new album, ironically titled "The Naked Truth," Kim casts herself as a scapegoat of a government bent on cracking down on gangsta rap through investigations and prosecutions. In recent years, the "government against hip-hop" theme has become a rap mantra, as reports of police surveillance of rappers have surfaced and prominent rap figures have gone to jail or been indicted for various crimes.

"Unfortunately, me as a woman, I had to take one for the team, and when I say for the team I say hip-hop, because I was the poster child for the federal government, for their investigations," she said, curled up on a couch in a posh Manhattan hotel suite, enjoying one of the last comforts of celebrity life before heading to prison.

Let's get some things lined up here...I don't like hip hop music. However, I think that like every other art form, there are some great things and there are some horrible things. It is capitalism at its best.

But, if you are intelligent at all, you have to agree with me

IF YOU ARE INVOLVE IN A SHOOTOUT IN THE CIVILIZED WORLD OF 2005, YOU DESERVE TO BE IN JAIL...AND IF YOU CONTINUE TO SAY STUPID THINGS...just sit the next couple of plays out (HT - Chet).

She's probably a Yankee (I HATE THEM) fan.........

brad