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NEW YORK - Rapper Lil' Kim is seething behind bars, but she's not staying quiet about the ex-pals and prosecutor who put her there.
"Now the DA, wanna give me time in the feds. I'm from Brooklyn, I could do that time on my head," the diminutive entertainer taunts in a song titled "All Good" from her new CD "The Naked Truth."
In "Spell Check," she raps, "I'm more (expletive) than them (expletive) guys, cause they took the stand, on the DA's side ...
"Federal agents mad cause I'm flagrant, tapped the cell, and the phone in my basement. The IRS tryin' to take my pay, and plus I'm bein' spied on by the CIA."
Lil' Kim's attorney, Mel Sachs, said the Queen Bee has been buzzing with frustration about being locked up in a tough Philadelphia prison, instead of a minimum-security facility. "She certainly is dissatisfied that she was placed in this federal prison facility, where she has to stay incarcerated for most of the day," Sachs told the New York Daily News.
"But she's resilient and with her resolve, courage and conviction she'll get through this."
Even though 31-year-old Grammy-winner, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, is out of sight, her music is still popular. Her album is at No. 7 on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop chart.
On the album, her no-holds-barred lyrics blast two members of her J.U.N.I.O.R. Mafia crew, who testified against her.
The testimonies of James (Lil' Cease) Lloyd and Antoine (Banger) Spain were key to helping prosecutors convict her of lying to a federal grand jury about a 2001 shootout in front of the Manhattan radio station Hot 97.
She began serving a 366-day sentence on Sept. 19.
Federal prosecutors declined to comment on the album in which Lil' Kim takes an apparent swipe at prosecutor Cathy Seibel in a song called "Durty" - cursing and spewing an anti-gay slur.
"The feds pinched me for a shootin', but instead they indicted me for my (expletive) music," Kim laments.
She concludes "the whole system is corrupt" in a song called "Slippin," and adds that her "words were misconstrued and used against" her.
Sachs said he doesn't believe the album could lead to more legal trouble for Lil' Kim.
"This is artistic expression," he said. "It's of entertainment value and it should be viewed in that way."
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