dragged into the hook, she snaps, "Nigga, fuck you," is asked, "Why you acting like a bitch?"—her reply, 'Cause y'all niggas ain't shit—and her hook's own fellatio directive, hypothetical, is what, "if I was a dude, I'd tell y'all." In verse two, Lil' Kim, supplier of many intoxicants, wants only money and cunnilingus, but "got this nigga now" who, tipsy, "asked me did I love him." Aping a demeaning vocal sample in 2 Live Crew's hook of "Me So Horny"—on 1989 album As Nasty as They Wanna Be—Lil' Kim replied, "I love you long time," got "some head" and "the piss sucked out" without requiting, and secretly recorded it to show her "girls." Ending verse two, she brags, "Niggas know he gave me all his cake"—a double entendre for money—"I peeled the Benji's off and threw the singles back in his face." Thomas reads, "The male 'nigga' is now"—derided by the stripper—"the 'trick' who gets done." In verse three, a "dude named Jaleel," seeming a rich socialite, offered Lil' Kim "10 grand just to belly dance" and "come all over his pants," but "showed up with his homeboy named Julio," and "was a phony." Recalling her gun in his mouth—Fool, give me my money!—she relabels him "just a nigga frontin'." She chimes, "Niggas ain't shit, but they can still trick," and limits them to sucking till she climaxes and jumps up. Pop revised In 2003, Lil' Kim reemerged with her third solo album and her "Queen B" persona, leading women's effort—perhaps first attempted near 1970—to reappropriate the word bitch, this time amid lingering "Bitches Ain't Shit" ethos. Proclaiming the title bitch, women blunted the slur and reframed it to buoy their own ambitions. But since their 1996 albums, both Lil' Kim and, debuting then, her main rap contemporary female, Foxy Brown—who would slur each other as various types of "bitch"—had employed profane boasts of vanity and lewdness, avarice and violence, more gangsta rap. (The 1974 blaxploitation film Foxy Brown's beautiful, indomitable protagonist regained currency in 1995, after her cameo in a Snoop music video of 1994.) By allegedly roundabout reinforcement of "Bitches Ain't Shit," both rappers were accused of "resurrecting Jezebel"—purportedly endemic stereotypes of women, especially of black women—a model sustained since 2010 by Nicki Minaj and 2015 by Cardi B. In any case, Lil' Kim's persona stressed loyalty—especially to her one "nigga"—and in some ways grew women's senses of