Eighties pop star Cyndi Lauper teamed up with femcee Lil Kim for a duet performance of Cyndi’s smash classic “Time After Time” at the 91st birthday concert for former South African president Nelson Mandela. The Nelson Mandela Foundation and 46664 hosted the headliner event at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on Saturday, July 18.

France’s first lady Carla Bruni, soul legend Aretha Franklin, rocker Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, and Stevie Wonder were other notables present at yesterday’s celebration.

Looks like plastic surgery fanatic Lil’ Kim has ordered up a little more junk for her trunk.

The 33-year-old rapper, who has admitted to having breast implants and two nose jobs, reportedly shelled out $9,000 for a Brazilian butt lift, according to Detroit-based plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn:

“It’s a fat-grafting procedure where the fat is taken from the individual’s thighs and waist, transferred and implanted into the buttocks. It looks like the surgeon did a very nice job!”

A close to the entertainer tells The National Enquirer: “Kim has never felt any shame about going under the knife to improve her appearance. She was always complaining about how her butt sagged, and she admired Jennifer Lopez’s back end.”

In addition to the surgeries she’s already admitted to, Kim is rumored to have had a brow life, her lips plumped, and her skin lightened.

Lil Kim and her professional partner Derek Hough stopped by Live With Regis & Kelly on Thursday to visit Kim’s unlikely celebrity crush, Regis Philbin, and discuss her surprising elimination from Dancing With The Stars earlier this week.

Dancing With The Stars has done it again. The star with the lowest score – Ty Murray – did not go home. Instead, it was pint-sized rap star Lil’ Kim who was given the boot.

Though sad to go, Lil’ Kim said she loved being a part of the show, alongside professional partner Derek.

“I think this is one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever experienced in my life,” Lil’ Kim said as the news sunk in. “I think I brought different viewers. I know people that have never watched the show… watched the show… This is a great experience.”

Lil Kim is the latest celebrity injured on the eighth season of Dancing With The Stars. The femcee injured a rib during rehearsal last week.

“I have a small injury, well it’s not small, but I popped my rib out earlier this week and ripped one of the muscles under my rib. I didn’t know,” Kim tells In Touch Weekly.

“I was dancing through the pain.”

She may have one of the most recognizable backsides on the Planet, but it’s Lil Kim’s ass that Kim Kardashian finds truly “mesmerizing.”

In an entry on her blog Wednesday, Kim wrote: “This week I went to watch Dancing With the Stars and it was so much fun to catch up with all of my old friends! I met a whole bunch of new people too! The dances were amazing, Lil’ Kim was mesmerizing to watch and after the show I had to grab her booty! She is so curvy.”

Sidebar: Lil Kim was previously romantically linked to Kim K.’s former sex tape co-star, VH1 realiy star Ray J.

Lil Kim goes on the record about the controversial Notorious biopic–and the people behind it–on “Big Boy’s Neighborhood Morning Show” on Tuesday.

Here’s a rundown of what’s owed:

The state of New York filed a $12,599 tax warrant on April 26, 2008, in the New York County Clerk’s office.
The IRS filed a $50,464 lien on Sept. 5, 2007, in the Bergen (N.J.) County Clerk’s office.
The IRS filed a $67,509 lien on May 14, 2007, in Bergen County.
The state of California filed a $4,089 lien on Sept. 16, 2005, in Sacramento County Court.
The IRS filed a $232,348 lien on Aug. 16, 2005, in New Jersey.
The state of New Jersey filed a $51,471 lien on Aug. 11, 2005, in New Jersey State Superior Court.
The state of New Jersey filed a $77,939 lien on Dec. 9, 2004, in New Jersey Superior Court.
The IRS filed a $482,671 lien on Feb. 19, 2004, in New Jersey.

Lil Kim’s rep, Lisa Perkins, said the 34-year-old “is paying her tax debt and will continue to do so.”

Lil’ Kim can understand why her “little sister” Rihanna reunited with her allegedly abusive boyfriend, Chris Brown, because she has also stuck by a violent ex.

Lil Kim explains, “In the beginning, yes I did go back… (but) I learned that if it’s continued abusive, you just can’t stay there. “When guys are young, they make mistakes.”

“Nobody’s perfect, but, if they do it more than once, then it’s definitely a habit,” she adds.

“I don’t condone it, but we weren’t there…”