Lil Kim vs. Foxy Brown: A Brief History

A look back at key moments in the rap divas' beef.

Lil Kim vs. Foxy Brown: A Brief History - Foxy Brown made waves yet again when she tore into Lil Kim by performing her diss track "Massacre" at a club in Newark, N.J., earlier this week. But this isn't the first time the two rap divas have fired shots (sometimes even real shots) at each other—far from it. Click on to take a look back at key moments in the beef between Lil Kim and Foxy Brown. —Alex Gale(Photo: Evan Agostini/Getty Images; Fernando Leon/Getty Images)
It Was All So Simple Then... - Kim's and Foxy's lives and careers started out on similar paths. Raised just miles apart in Brooklyn, they ended up going to the same high school briefly. B.I.G. took Lil Kim under his wing, and his boy Jay-Z brought Foxy into the game. Kim ran with her crew Junior M.A.F.I.A., and Fox ran with Nas’s The Firm. The two started out as friends, and even shared the cover of The Source magazine in 1997. (Photo: Source Magazine)
Collision Course - But was the game big enough for the both of them? Both Kim and Ms. Brown began to build buzz with a mix of sex appeal and a tough Brooklyn edge. They even ended up releasing their debut albums, pictured here, just a week apart in November 1996. Sometimes a showdown seemed inevitable.   (Photos: Big Beat Records; Def Jam Records)First Blood - Sure enough, rumors began to emerge of tension between the two. Then Def Jam CEO Lyor Cohen reportedly offered Kim and Fox half a million each to record an album together, to be titled Thelma & Louise, but it didn’t happen, supposedly because of clashing egos. (Photo: KMazur/WireImage; Brenda Chase/Getty Images)

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Lil Kim vs. Foxy Brown: A Brief History - Foxy Brown made waves yet again when she tore into Lil Kim by performing her diss track "Massacre" at a club in Newark, N.J., earlier this week. But this isn't the first time the two rap divas have fired shots (sometimes even real shots) at each other—far from it. Click on to take a look back at key moments in the beef between Lil Kim and Foxy Brown. —Alex Gale(Photo: Evan Agostini/Getty Images; Fernando Leon/Getty Images)

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