The original Hard Core 2k13 artwork had a similar design with a brighter color palette. The same font from the original album cover is used. A framed photo of Kim is situated atop the mantle piece over a fireplace. The imagine is of a starkly-lit room with a black panther in front of a fireplace wearing jewels, surrounded by a pile of money, bouquets of roses, a designer hand bag, and bottles of rosé. The cover for the mixtape is a nod to the artwork of Kim's 1996 debut album Hard Core.
The mixtape was re-released for digital download and made available on streaming platforms on February 27, 2021, featuring a re-ordered track listing. This was later pushed back to November 29, 2013, and eventually set for September 11, 2014. The Naked Truth is the fourth studio album by American rapper Lil Kim, released on September 27, 2005.The album was released the same week she started her year-long prison sentence for perjury and it was her last studio album released by Atlantic Records before deciding to part ways in 2008. The interview, which happened seven months after the release of Kims breakout LP Hard Core, focuses mostly on the double standards that female celebrities embracing their sexuality endure. The project was originally titled Hard Core 2k13 with a release date set for October 31, 2013. In honor of Lil Kims birthday today, were saluting the Queen Bee by re-posting our May 1997 cover story on the rapper by bell hooks. With her hardcore posturing and sexually explicit rhymes rapper Lil Kim blazed a trail for other like-minded and liberated female MCs in the 90s and beyond. Im like bleach Lil Kim leave a permanent stain.
It was released on Septemthrough Queen Bee Entertainment. 50 out of 5 stars Lil Kim - La Bella Mafia - Great album in full. Hard Core (also known as Hard Core 2K14) is the third mixtape by Lil' Kim.