Lil Kim heads off to the big house

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At 2 p.m. today, Lil' Kim will report to jail in the Center City district of Philadelphia's Federal Detention Center to serve a one year and a day sentence for perjury and conspiracy.

Kim aka Kimberley Jones, 30, will join a small group of women serving sentences at the minimum security Federal Detention Center. The majority of the jail's 1,100 inmates are men and women awaiting criminal trials. The jail, which opened in 2000, stands 11 stories high, including 628 cells.

Sources say Federal prison officials selected the jail for Kim this past Friday. Kim was initially believed to be headed to a low or minimum-security federal camp. Officials reportedly considered sending Kim to Danbury, Connecticut or Alderson, West Virginia, where domestic diva Martha Stewart served a five-month sentence for lying about a stock sale earlier this year.

According to Michelle Brix, 29, a woman who spent one week in the jail for blocking a federal building during an anti-war protest last year, "It's one of the most degrading places I've ever seen." Brix described the inside of every cell as dull-gray and metal. Brix told the New York Post that inmates only got one hour of recreation in large cages one hour every weekday and are locked in 80-square-foot cells the rest of the time.

This past March, the Brooklyn rapper was convicted of lying to a grand jury in relation to a 2001 shooting outside of New York's Hot 97's radio station in which Kim's crew confronted Capone and Noreaga's team about the group's song, "Bang Bang" where Kim's rival Foxy Brown took shots at the Queen Bee. Moments into the confrontation, shots were exchanged and one man was injured.

Kim's former manager Damion "D-Roc" Butler and former bodyguard Suif "Gutta" Jackson pleaded guilty to gun charges related to the shooting. When questioned by the grand jury of her knowledge of individuals involved in the shooting, Lil Kim lied and said Butler wasn't present at the time of the shooting and that she didn't know Jackson.

Kim spent time with close friends at her two-story Alpine, New Jersey residence this weekend and took the opportunity to put some more work in before surrendering. Via her home intercom, Kim told the Post, "I'm not interested in talking, baby" this past Saturday. Later that day, the Queen Bee reportedly went to Manhattan's Club Deep to do an interview for a Hip-Hop documentary. But apparently, Kim pulled a no-show at a scheduled video shoot in Downtown Jersey City late Saturday. The video shoot was located on Greene Street and was to feature fake New York City police cars and a police van. The clip was supposed to spoof Kim's real life issues. A slew of off-duty police officers were also on hand to work on the video.

"She never showed up," Jersey City Police Capt. John Short told The Jersey Journal. "We stayed until 4 in the morning. We don't know why she didn't come."

Meanwhile, word is Kim's final days of freedom were captured by cameras and will be part of an upcoming reality show. Tentatively titled, "Lil' Kim Goes To The Big House," five networks are reportedly interested in acquiring the show. The show is produced by Tracey Edmonds, the wife of singer/songwriter producer Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds and producer of Showtime Network's "Soul Food." The show will also serve to promote Kim's new album.

Barely a week into prison, Kim's fourth album, The Naked Truth will hit stores next week, Tuesday. The LP was initially slated to hit stores September 13th, but was later postponed until September 27th.

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