Lil' Kim shattered hip-hop's glass ceiling, proving that women could spit sexually fantastical rhymes just as well as the fellas. "Big Momma Thang" is unapologetically vulgar, reimagining hip-hop's male gaze as a feminine glare: dirty, determined, and powerful. And whether going bar-for-bar with 50 Cent on the lascivious "Magic Stick" or accompanying Sisqó on the salacious, slippery sleaze of "How Many Licks?", Kim more than held her own as an agile and self-possessed MC who pushed hip-hop toward its unalloyed id.