Before dedicating her moves on Dancing With the Stars to the women in correction facilities, Lil Kim gave an interview to Rap Radar. In it she talks about her casting in DWTS (who would have thought that it’s the most-watched show in jail?), her music career, and the new movie about Biggie. She was publicly unhappy about the film, and in this interview claims that she should have been allowed to cast her own role. She also claims that Biggie has come to her in her dreams. Some highlights:

Dancing With The Stars seems like a career stretch. How were you approached to do the show?
When I first came home from prison they actually called to get me on the show then, but my life was so hectic. I was still on house arrest for a month, and it was hard for me to maneuver. They wanted me to come in then, but I couldn’t do it. Wasn’t the right timing. So I said, “Let me do it this year” cause we really love the show.

Were you controlling the jailhouse television set?
[Laughs] We had to agree on what channels we were watching because sometimes fights break out. The crazy thing is all of us like the same shows, mostly. But what happens though is that when there are fights over the shows, they take the TV from us for the whole week. But Dancing With The Stars believe it or not was the number one show [in jail].

Switching gears, you’ve been publicly unsupportive of Notorious. If Biggie were alive, do you think he would’ve been pleased with the film?
I’m a very spiritual person and he’s come to me many of times in my dreams. But, I don’t think he’s happy at all, at all! Because Ms. Wallace doesn’t know Biggie at all and she barley knows Christopher, if you know what I mean. At all! And I was around. Even before he blew up so crazy, so I know how he felt about his mom. And Biggie was so much more than what they put him out to be in that movie. And to be honest with you, I know for a fact he’s not happy. He’s not satisfied at all. At all. And regardless of the fact, everybody who is involved in this movie, he has love for. Everybody. But at the end of the day, he knows who’s who and what’s what. Believe that. And let me tell you something, the way he’s feeling is going to come out. Like, trust me. Everything is going to come out later. You’re going to see who he really loved and the ones that’s standing up for him the right way is the ones representing him the right way.

Fair enough. But didn’t you want Christina Milian to play you in the movie?
Just know how they put that crap out there is straight bull. That’s not the truth. Christina Milian is a real good friend of mine and she happened to be on the phone with me at the time and we talked, you know what I mean? And she knew how unhappy I was. And at the end of the day, I had a couple of friends that’s in Hollywood that was like Kim, “I’ll do that, I know you very well. I’ll play it for you.” So I wanted to get someone who actually knew me and knew my sexiness and knew my sophistication and who can pull it off. But at the end of the day, the movie wasn’t about me. If it wasn’t about me, then why did you show the personal [stuff]? Why didn’t you show me as a part of the group? They basically sensationalized the movie around Lil’ Kim. I’m the only person that they’re like talking about.

But what about how your character was portrayed?
[The] whole point and the matter of the fact [is that] I should’ve got to pick the girl that played me. And not necessarily Christina Milian or whoever else, but she could’ve damn sure played it better than that girl and I know that because Christina is my friend. But at the end of the day, that’s not who I would’ve picked. I wouldn’t have picked Chrisitina Milian to be honest with you. I wouldn’t have picked a known actress. I would’ve went to Brooklyn [and] had a casting call to be honest with you. Because there is nobody who could’ve pulled off that Lil’ Kim-Brooklyn feeling besides a Brooklyn girl who grew up in Brooklyn and knows what that’s like. That’s what I would’ve done.

[From Rap Radar]

Her comments about who is supporting Biggie’s memory in the right way is a huge slap in the face to everyone involved with the film – including Biggie’s old manager, who was a producer. It’s also probably directed at Faith Evans, Biggie’s wife, on whom he cheated with Lil Kim. Evans wrote a tell-all memoir in which she didn’t portray Kim as a particularly sympathetic character.

I see what Kim’s saying though: she’s still alive, and Biggie was a part of her life, so why couldn’t she be part of the project? That doesn’t mean that I agree with her. The movie was about Biggie, not her (no matter what Lil Kim says in this interview – she’s a bit self-centered). She’s obviously still trying to associate herself with Biggie by talking at such length about him and saying that he comes to her in her dreams, rather than moving on with her life. This is a one-sided feud that Kim just needs to let go.

Here’s Lil Kim dining at Katsuya in Hollywood last night. Images thanks to Fame.com.