Shortly after Lil Kim’s congratulatory tweet, fans of the rapper pointed out that Harris was once critical of the 46-year-old after she was sentenced in 2005 for perjury and conspiracy, according to Yahoo! News

Prior to the start of Lil' Kim’s year-long prison sentence, BET released a miniseries in 2006 called Countdown to Lockdown. Harris, who was the district attorney for San Francisco at the time, shared that the Black community shouldn’t protect gangsters that abide by street codes of honor.

“It is much more serious than what is the code among friends on the street,” Harris said of the rapper’s involvement in a 2001 shooting outside the HOT 97 radio station in New York. “What I’d like to see is in the way that we’re handling cases like those of Lil Kim, we say as a community, that we’re not going to glorify the gangster.”

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