These days, Lil Kim is spending her evenings lighting up the leader board on the eighth season of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, but the pint-sized rap mistress says that letters from bestie Marc Jacobs helped get her through a 10 month stint in federal prison on perjury charges in 2006.

The famed fashion designer and the tough girl from Brooklyn bonded over their love of style several years ago.

“He’s one of my best friends and was actually a huge supporter when I was in prison,” Kim said in an interview with StyleList.com. “He wrote me every week! “I decided to buy a coloring book – I’m a huge Bratz fan – and I painted the Bratz and made them all wear Marc Jacobs, and sent it to him. He blew it up and framed it, and now it’s hanging in his house. So Marc Jacobs is the best.”