She's reportedly got a new double album coming out "really soon". So let's revisit Lil Kim's fabulously rude, game-changing 1996 masterpiece, shall we?It’s with a certain delicious irony that Nicki Minaj has announced her retirement from music in the same month Lil Kim promised her upcoming double album ‘9’ will be released “really soon”. The rappers feuded from 2007: it began with a something-and-nothing dispute over Nicki’s mixtape ‘Playtime Is Over’, which Kim reckoned ripped off the […]The post A timely reminder that Lil Kim's 'Hard Core' is still the greatest rap record of all time (in this writer's humble opinion) appeared first on NME.