Love her or hate, Lil Kim‘s impact on Rap’s elevation to mainstream status is undeniable. However, unlike her heir apparent Nicki Minaj, the pint sized icon found it hard to function as a productive businesswoman without Diddy’s guidance- watching her once lucrative brand regress when it should have moved forward.
Now, in marking yet another legal woe for Kim, she has reportedly filed a lawsuit against her own lawyer this week- one year after it emerged she owed a total of 1 million dollars to the US Government after failing to pay her taxes for over a decade.
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According to the ‘How Many Licks’ MC, Sunny Barkats ‘tricked’ her into entering transactions that awarded he and his business partner Andrew Ro 44% of stake in a business forged to license her brand names.
Allegedly ‘wising up’ to the pair’s reported ‘thievery’ back in December, the Rapper’s suit against the pair comes after she was sued by the ‘Trackmasters’ production company for failing to fulfil her end of an agreement decided upon with them to reboot her career.
An agreement, which saw them clear the artist of a $200,000 debt she owed to former label Atlantic Records, and inject the sum of $1.6 million into a fund assigned to create new material and rescue her then ailing career.
In response to this lawsuit, her lawyers have billed it a ‘frivolous attempt for her back out of her commitments.
Situations like this give us no choice but to respect the likes of Missy Elliott and Nicki Minaj– Female MCs just as in control of their business dealings as they are of their material.
For, while we’re sure many of the Rapper’s fans will take her side on this, we doubt it’s a coincidence the last decade has seen her struggle to keep on top her business and branding, while Missy continues to make bank behind the scenes thanks to a savviness Kim has always lacked.
By no means are bashing her, but it’s a little jarring that she insists on being labelled the ‘Queen’- when it’s Nicki Minaj who continues to school her on the importance of Female Rappers being more than just a pretty and present face.
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this is why she isnt successful. she surrounds herself with ghetto small time people. She needs a decent manager and a decent recoord label….It wouldnt even be hard for her to be successful. Hot producers, hot lyrics and vid and boom…she could be huge
I love that they gave props to Missy. She’s always been about her business.
Wayne and birdman handles icki s*** sam NOT ICKI!! so eat me!!
Dumb Ass
how are you gonna sue a lawyer!?!?!! they went to college and earned a degree…they know the justice system and all of it’s foolery like the back of their hands lol
ALSO i loved that Sam mentioned Missy Elliott…she really is a business women…and was the last Queen of Hiphop (NOT KIM) before Nicki Minaj…when you do the work yourself and stop letting ppl dabble in your business it pays off
4 main business women in hiphop –> Nicki Minaj, Missy Elliot, Queen Latifah, and MC Lyte
You ain’t never lied, those 4 women transcended being rappers.
Yes you may get a deal or associate yourself with a label, but if you’re not cuttin the checks, signing the deals, and doing the math yourself some fuckery will happen under your nose.
That’s where Kim got f***** up. It was always someone else giving her a deal or making a business connection for her. They owned her more than she ran things.
TREV so true MC Lyte even gave nicki props the other day,saying she is a business who too,not a rapper only.
Shut up sissy
@forehead YO, A LOOSER!!
‘YOURE’
Shes a boss point black period nicki will never be respected like kim is
Really???????????? And where is Trina!!!!! in her roach encrusted apartment about to put a mixtape called: Where is My Money?; Life as I H** It!!!!!!!! Gurrrrrrl have 10 million seats!!!!!!!!!!! lmao
Li Kim is laughed at not respected. Even Azealia doesn’t have respect for her. Lol
AND WHO IS AZAELIA??? NOBODY..AND WHERE IS SHE? NO WHERE…BUT ANYTIME KIM HAS A STORY ABOUT HER..IT GETS POSTED HERE….AND EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOMMA COME CHECKIN FOR IT…AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT KIM STILL HAS PLENTY OF MONEY..SHE’S NOT STUPID BY LONG SHOT…KIM DECIDED TO LEAVE HER RECORD COMPANY..NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND…AND WHEN NICKI GETS THE BOOT FROM YOUNG MONEY..LETS SEE IF ALL HER BUSINESS VENTURES STAY IN PLACE..AND LETS SEE HOW MUCH OF A BOSS SHE IS.
The no life having barbz are bout to r*** this post smh
Yaaaasssss girl. Im goin giv those skanks this post today cause i already slayed b****** on the other site that had this up bfo tgj so imma play in my play in my p**** while i smk a blunt and watch cartoons chile. Being a sissy hard work girl…im tired
Yaaaasssss girl. Im goin giv those skanks this post today cause i already slayed b****** on the other site that had this up bfo tgj so imma play in my play in my p**** while i smk a blunt and watch cartoons chile. Being a sissy hard work girl…im tired..i got these cake SLAYED lastnite. I need rest
Lil kim = Icon
Nicki = Hot for the moment
So what that makes trina????? Trina = Invisible Back Door H**, Lil Krim = asian guy at china buffet/stupid h** , Nicki = Legendary Queen
Trina = hot for one summer in ’01 ! Kiiii
HOW CAN NICKI BE A QUEEN OR A LEGEND??? GTFOH… SHE ONLY BEEN OUT SINCE 2009/2010…THATS CRAZY..YALL REACHIN TOO FAR…STOP IT
Man, that moment been going on for like 5 years. Well hey at least you guys stopped saying her ’15 minutes of fame’ is up.
Nicki is famous for nearly 4 years now dat’s a quite long “moment”
THANK U
Kim honey, this is what all your SMART stans warned you against. There’s more to business than collecting your money at the end of a deal, it’s about being in charge of the things that might not be as fun. You keep on being sued but you can’t see that you have a problem. You’re legendary Rapper but you’re a poor business woman.
No Mame!!!! Not legendary, just my average asian waiter at the asian joint on the Corner!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would shade her but I know the lawyer will do that for me when he speaks on all the stupid things she did when they worked together. Embarrassing.
This woman is so dumb. You mean to say they tricked her into giving them HER company. She seems nice but all this s*** proves so much about why she never caught herself after Lady marmalade. She never had to work for a deal because Biggie put her on so because she never had to use her head to get that deal she doesn’t know to use that head to keep it.
Easy come easy go.
U girls kiiilll me. Even if kim were on the other end of this lawsuit yall girl would still shade so stop actn like yall need this or any other reason to shade her. Yall would shade her even if she brought peace to the middle east and the heavens opened up and a BAND of angel came down and song her praise. Hoez. ( takin a d***** chile)
Pooor kim i love u but i feel nothing ever goes right in your life
Kim will always be queen Nicki forever will be a copycat & low budget black version of ke$ha btw Die young outsold starshit
Wait a minute Crazy h**!!!!!!!!!!!!! How Die Young from Kuku sell more than Nicki when it only sold 2 million and Starships sold 7.2 million and counting!!!!!!! Have 10 million seats!!!!!!!!!!! All kesha is an untalented, auto tuning, unintelligent wanna be britney spears!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sis your reads apply to your fav tho :(. Untalented, auto-tuned, unintelligent……
Btw Ke$ha is actually smart. Her IQ is probably higher than yours and your favs
DEAD ! read this ugly h** ! Kiii
This is soooooo sad:( this right here makes me glad I’m a nicki supporter! Kim really needs to stop doing business with ghetto people that are still eating out there mommas apartment on the weekends.. And then on the eek days go put on a business suit and call up lil Kim for some “F*** N**** S***”
She makes bad business moves because she has bad friend friends who never made it out of the hood. People who USED to be as big as she was shouldn’t associate with people who have no ambition like the people in her team because they aint s*** and don’t understand her brand like a proffesional would.
If she grinded harder and stopped looking to the hood to cosign her she would be where Jay is today and Nicki would never have been able to come in the game as strong as she did cos Kim would have had it on lock.
Exactly! Kim needs to stop with this “HOOD” s***.. All this loyalty to my hood s***.. The hood needs me, I can’t leave the hood. Kim pack you’re bags with you’re wigs & comb bush and move to the suburbs ok. Get that white work
Lmaooooo stupid f***!!
i hope she knows that dude shes dating is using her bride of chucky looking ass too
S*** even teamkim even knows that. They be trying to tell her he using her dumb ass.. But she don’t listen she sprung on that d*** like a crackhead on a pipe
Who’s Trina????
lol trueeeeeee
Kim is too loyal imo and so instead of ditching those hoodrats she rolls with she stuck with them but it’s screwed her whole brand. I don’t like Nicki but you can tell she’s in charge of her career and thats why everyone laughed when Reloaded flopped because we knew it flopped because of her business decisions. And that’s the point, they’re HER decisions so at least when she flops she can flop because she’s the boss.
Kim wants the hood to love her when she doesn’t know how much better she could be if she wasn’t so passive in life.
though Roman Reloaded didn’t sell as much as Pink Friday, i wouldn’t call 1.6million WW a flop…or producing multiple platinum/gold singles…one of which sold 7.2 million WW a flop either…but that’s just me
LMAO 1.6 worldwide and multiplatinum singles is NOT a flop. Maybe u need to look up the term. You’ll see it under the dictionary in Kim’s yet to go gold album ‘The Naked Truth’.
A flop is when an artist spends more than they make. Nicki has sold 7.2 mil singles off ONE song alone ! She went on tour twice last yr ! Believe me YMCMB has been paid for ALL the money spent on her project! LOL
ppl talk about her putting out 840358 vids but the vids she releases are not high budget they have 3 scenes max and they are mostly a 12-16 hour shoot, not 2-3 days !!
Nakes truth is platinum…B****!!.even if it WAS gold she l’d still hav TWO more platinum cds then UR squid eyed fav. Fucka!
Roman Reloaded was the best selling HipHop album in 2012 so i wldn’t call it a flop
A MESS
NICKI >>>>>>>>> LIL PSY
Haha… Nicki Minaj is showing Kim how to brand herself properly. Now Kim is sueing her lawyers. Kim been trying to brand herself for years without success, So i know she feels some type of way about how successful Nicki is with her branding.
AMEN!!!!!!!! PREACH ON HONESTY, TELL THE WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh shut up
kim has been a brand…kim has been a household name since the 90’s get your life
I can’t believe how stupid this woman actually is. You were sitting there talking about how rich you were when you can’t even pay your taxes and can’t even take control of the FIRST thing you ever have had to look after.
If she had some GOOD friends who didn’t use her like that hoodlum boyfriend of hers, she would have a stronger mindset and learn from them because that’s what I do in school. If you have a friendship group where everyone’s doing well it motivates you to do just as well but when your friends are bums who probably never achieved a single goal in life, this is what happens to you.
I HATE YOU SAM, WHY YOU DELETE MY COMMENT
Oh Kim
Karma is a b**** isn’t it. Kim is not a businesswoman because she has never worked for anything a day in her life. BIGGIE is the only reason she had a deal and as soon as Puff left the picture s*** went downhill. I feel ashamed for her fans.
Kim this is all bad , girl you need a new team.
I wonder if it’s any more hope to her making a comeback.
This is why people should stay in school for as long as possible.
Dead!
Her credit score must be so bad.
I feel bad for her because it’s like her team is doing their job and wanting to see her fail. It’s almost like the people around her are NOT in her best interest. That’s probably why she has NOT been able to release music since her release from jail because of Atlantic and signing that Trackmasters deal, but that’s probably why she was able to sell her Black Friday mixtape on PayPal because she found a loop pole around that Trackmasters deal she was trying to get out of. Hopefully things work out for her in the end. No artist deserves that to happen to them. Doesn’t matter how much you love or hate them it’s still wrong to do. Good luck Kim.
*Isn’t* doing their job.
Only thing lil krim knows how to do is be a side kick h**!!!!! Poor BIG!!!!! Oh you MAD, you ain’t headline, you my son B**** and its bedtime! – Nicki Minaj
“Play stupid h**”
lol:) already on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On sure she’s used her “head” to get ALOT of deals. If you catch my drift.
LMAO!!!!!! You right though, she has used it many times, just ask Biggie and Sean Combs!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gone head Krimmy, use that HEAD of yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sure my girl Nicki is laughing somewhere sipping tea & reapplying her own MAC inspired lipstick.
Maybe if Lil Kim wasn’t so busy sucking Mr. No Paper’s d*** then her dumbass wouldn’t be in this situation.
EYE CANDY i don’t think Nicki is the try of person to laugh at someones down falls are business Woes Nicki is actually a nice person she only act up when people try to sh-t on her,Nicki only go,s in when people pic on here are try to dis her like Kim and others…other than that i doubt she give 2 sh-t.
Comment report b****…u mad?? Now tell another lie like that and ill just kick yo ass insteada reportn u…B****!!
kim been there done that, try again
man i feel bad for Lil Kim man. im a huge fan but god damn!!! shes a fool! Nicki Minaj has branded herself like no other and continues too 🙁
BAHY AND WAYNE hav branded her…H**!
THEN WHY POST ABOUT HER?
IF NICKY IS THE QUEEN, THEN WHY NOT JUST POST ON HER?
LIL KIM HAS HER OWN ARTISTS, HER OWN LABEL AND HAS A CIROC DEAL IN THE WORKS WITH DIDDY – SO SHE CLEARLY IS NOT BROKE
LETS NOT ACT LIKE NICKY IS GETTING EVERYTHING FROM HER ENDRORSEMENTS BECAUSE WAYNE GETS A BIG CHEQUE OUT OF HER BUFFOONERY
AND HOW IS ROMAN RELOADED RE FLOP DOING? AFTER ALL THAT PROMOTION? LIL KIMS SECOND ALBUM WENT PLATINUM IN A MONTH
LOVE YOU KIM
Boo..Nicki Minaj owns all of her 360 rights, including merchandising, sponsorships, endorsements, touring and publishing.
Nicki’s album sold 1.5million WW highest selling rap album of 2012 btw. You tried it…
Just so you know…after 15 years in this game Krim is worth 18 million. Nicki is worth 26+ million in 2-3 years.
PROVE IT!! SHE OWN NOTHING!! #SHOWRECIEPTSOREATMYPUSSY
OMG Krim is ALWAYS playing the f****** victim it makes me SICK.
Nicki did this, the paps cropped my picture, Biggies mom did this, Faith did this to me, Diddy did this, He aint loyal, she aint loyal, blah blah blah! GET MONEY B****!!!!!!
WTF take responsibility for YOUR life. How did Lawyers trick YOU into selling YOUR brand! wtf!
At this point, sad as it is to say, there’s no point in being Team Lil Kim anymore.
She may be alive but her brand of Queen B is dead as a doornail.
It’s f***** up but it’s clear she is one of the many rappers (and this includes men) that couldn’t control or managed their business on their own and failed because of it.
Honestly though, the thing about this is it doesn’t matter whether you’re a new artist, old artist, black or white, pop or rap. BE ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS.
Kim clearly had some problems of her own. She has a problem with truth, she KEEPS associating herself with lowdown folks who don’t care about her, she has puts loyalty and failing before being professional, she wastes money on frivolous things (Mr.Papers, Tiffany Foxx) this kind of s*** happens to a lot of people and it’s honestly killed a lot of careers.
It’s not that it happened to Kim that’s f***** up, it’s that it KEEPS happening to Kim. Nicki was barely established and already cut and run from Diddy when she realized he wasn’t going to truly help her succeed. But Kim expects people to put past loyalty (Keyshia, Mary,) before work.
Like the saying goes, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice…
Leave it up to TGJ to turn anything lil Kim does into a negative. 1st, you say Tiffany foxx has “KILLER LOOKS, with a “LACKLUSTER” Sound, but how about she was on Mtv Rapfix live FREESTYLIN’, in front of Legendary M.C TALIB KWELI… Who made that happen for her?…. Lil Kim. Who had the right connections to get POP PHENOM MILEY CYRUS in her ” MIXTAPE SINGLE’s Video for Twisted…. Lil Kim. If Kim is doing business the wrong way why is “TWISTED”, played on the radio, on spotify, iTunes etc!… WHY?.
Where are the Articles on AI RATINGS BEING ITS WORST SINCE ITS START. How about how Freaks Flopping. How about nicki darn near have to get naked to get people interested in her. If Kim wasn’t handling business right, I would see it, YOU TURNED HER SUEING SOMEONE AROUND TO MAKE IT LIL KIM FAULT!. You have always been BIASED, because I guess Nicki gave y’all some traffic when she linked a “Positive” article that you wrote, BUT NEVER, EVVERR! Granted an interview from you.
Honestly, your reaching for Nicki negatives.
1) How can you blame Nicki for the AI drop when the series has dropped in viewers every single year. And even so..13million viewers isnt very small. lmao
2) How can you say Freaks is a Flop when it just came out annnd its not even Nicki’s single.
3) How can you defend Tiffany Foxx’s music and career outlook? lmfao come on
OK deze now u just sound stupid. A.i. Rating HAVE dropd amd its due to icki:Fact! Tiffany IS the burgenin female hip hop act: FACT! Twisted just came out too but its doin well but freak isnt:FACT! yo p**** loose and wore out:FACT!
omg edubbbbb u r sooo on point…this site is so biased…but for kim to b a hasbeen yall stay checkin for her daily. she doin what she gotta do. shes hustlin
My lawyers aint loyal!!!!!!! *In a brooklyn Accent* Kiiii
Lets see LilKimNews comment on this… Fat ass flop f** !!! Hating on the QUEEN !!! LOL
So I went to go check lil kim networth its 8mil that’s still a lot! But Nicki networth 20mil and Missy 50mil…. Wow props to nicki and Missy the queen of rap
Thats not even right.. LOL just FYI, thats estimations no one can measure how much a celebrity actually HAS in their possession thats how much they expect her to have bc they said Nicki had 14 mil last yr that was before American idol (12mil) and in december she made 8mil off appearances not to mention her single sales off her last era
Kim gets dragged like its nothing omg where are her fans to defend her
Seems like they abandon her too,because Kim never listen to them.
I’m almost certain the gofers for That Grape Juice only have 10% of the actual facts as usual. You all speak as if other stars or business people (ie Diddy) don’t or have never had business issues. GTFU TGJ. P.S. Nicki Thressome doesn’t really have a career yet. You have to be in the game at least 10 years to call this ish a career. Especially with haters like you all on the scene.
LMFAO at you saying Nicki doesnt have a career yet. You cant even be remotely serious.
MAC, OPI, ADDIDAS, PEPSI, PINKFRIDAY FRAGRANCE, 2PLATINUM RECORDS, AMERICAN IDOL, WORLD TOURS, MULTIPLATINUM SELLING SINGLES…tf you think that mean?
Pepsi drop her, her CP30 in drag squid p**** smelln perfume has BOMBED, it one of the worst selln fragrances EVERR, a world tour where they only rented HALF of the arena seats and still could barely sell out WHEN IT DID SELL out, ONE PLATUNUM album! Chile the b**** is a flop!! Im done!