Nah, I disagree breh, Kim didn't have an album out, you are correct, but I can't agree with you on saying she was a nobody in 1996, her verse on Get Money was played and her appearance on that video had nikkas talking about her.
Household name, that means to me, me and my patnas are talking about how fine/sexy LIl Kim is lol, and we were doing that in 1996, the barbers in the barbershop was talking about her sex appeal, we'll let me say, when you went to your patna and he cut yo head, you and him and others were talking about lil kim