Lil' Kim Trial Set for Fall

Lil' Kim (a.k.a. Kimberly Jones) will stand trial for eight felony charges on November 25th in New York City.

The rapper, 28, was indicted last week and charged with conspiracy to commit perjury, obstructing justice and making false statements. She pleaded innocent and was freed on $500,000 bond. The charges followed a three-year investigation into a February 2001 shooting outside of the Hot 97 radio station's Greenwich Village location in New York.

According to police, Kim and her entourage crossed paths with the crew of rival rapper Capone, when shots were fired. Efrain Ocasio, a friend of Capone's, was shot in the back. Prosecutors accused Kim of lying about her relationship with two men involved in the shooting: bodyguard Suif Jackson, whom Kim said wasn't with her at the time, and Damion Butler, an alleged acquaintance she said she didn't know. Investigators claim that a security videotape shows some of the shooters leaving the scene in the rapper's limousine. Kim's attorney, Mel Sachs, called the charges "baseless." If convicted on all counts, she could face thirty years in prison.

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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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