After a brief, but successful run, the final episode of Lil Kim’s reality show, Countdown to Lockdown airs tonight on BET at 9:30 PST. “Today I’m going away. I’m turning myself in to U.S. Marshalls,” says Lil’ Kim in the show’s intro. “It still feels surreal, but I gotta do what I gotta do.” The show had one of the highest debuts in BET history.
XXL’s web site features two interviews from two of Hip Hop’s east coast elite: Raekwon and Talib Kweli. Here are some highlights from both:
Rae on the sequel to Only Built for Cuban Linx: First and foremost, I’m having fun with this, man. I’m taking it back to the golden era, when I really didn’t care about too much about the politics, you know? And that included radio, magazines and all that. My mind frame ain’t even on that right now. I’m mentally sniffing coke right now. I’m on drugs, mentally. Not on them physically, you know what I mean?
Talib Kweli on the lack of support from his old label, Geffen: I feel like if I had waited they would’ve said, We’ll put it out next quarter, get some more Neptunes tracks or something. But I didn’t believe that, because they had been telling me lies the whole time. I believe that if I had done that, I would just languish, and they would never put it out. So we just had the meetings and we just forced them like, Look, we gotta put it out. We have no choice. They said, Fine, let’s put it out. We did the video for “I Try,” and then we tried to get started on the next single, at which point they stopped returning our phone calls…
