Lil Kim‘s quest for comeback was bolstered by a well-executed promotional campaign launched by the fresh team of managers the icon enlisted to lead the next phase of her career.
Unfortunately, those who had hoped her new album ‘9′ would benefit from the managerial changes have learned that the worst has happened….at least commercially.
For, the set is reported to have sold under 1,000 copies in the US and become one of the lowest-selling albums in chart history after it failed to impact the Billboard 200 in its opening week.
Accused of dashing salt on Kim’s three figure chart wound? Nicki Minaj.
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Though nothing in the messages above indicate she was addressing her Hip-Hop sister’s bad news, many took to social media to argue that she was.
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lil krimlin album sales
— James ♡ (@boytoymaraj) October 21, 2019
If You Talking About What I’m Thinking Blink Twice ??????? pic.twitter.com/zvG7V9Pm2Z
— Queen Of Gay Rap ™ ???? (@BossyCandyBars) October 21, 2019
Yes
— ????. (@Nicki_Squadron) October 21, 2019
‘9’ is the first album Kim has released since 2005’s ‘The Naked Truth’ and was launched by eOne Music whose parent company Entertainment One generated $1,219,724,200 this year.
Here’s hoping some of that revenue is used to give Kim’s exciting new music the backing it deserves in the coming months.
How her fans are responding to news of the album’s modest first week figure?
Yall dragging Lil Kim’s sales like we in 1996. That lady is WELL outside her prime. And yes that album is trash but come on lol. None of the female rappers from the 90s are pushing any type of numbers in 2019.
— Tony (@notliketony) October 21, 2019
I'm glad a certain fanbase is talking about Lil Kim, the Queen of Rap! We all know Kim is an obsession! What other HAS-BEEN gets talked about this MUCH?
— MARIAH KNIGHTS (@mariahknights) October 21, 2019
I don’t think Lil Kim is worried about any album sales. She has sold millions of albums from previous albums she has. She know her staple in the industry is deep & she is the blueprint & inspiration for those today. Her star is still shining & she ain’t worried about the haters.
— Clarinet Section Leader ♊️ (@clarinetpro87) October 21, 2019
Some feel differently…
The funny thing is about that @LilKim fans really clowned @NICKIMINAJ for almost doing 200k first week on her 4th album. For then to not even buy or stream Kim’s!! Please dot. Defend if you didn’t buy the album. It was only $9.99
— Ok Im Out (@_Lamone_) October 21, 2019
Lil Kim passed the torch…. and her sales
— IG: chrischuene_ ?❤?️? (@ChueneChris) October 21, 2019
This can't be real life. Lil Kim failed to sell even a 1000 records? But I thought she was the queen of rap? I thought she was passing the torch to C*rdi? https://t.co/4azSZ7Ehtk pic.twitter.com/a61fjmbisU
— Chun Swae ? (@TiangPaul) October 21, 2019
Unless she suddenly caught amnesia and can’t remember the DISASTROUS “Queen” era, Nicki can’t laugh at anyone’s sales in 2019.
Nicki never bombed with less than 1000 sales after a mass media campaign,even if those tweets were about lil krimlin. Nice try sis.
garbaj’s pure sales 150.000 .. she is nothng without feats.. queen of free streaming
of course, yall will believe this, so now yall going to run with this fake nonsense more excuses for yall to hate on Nicki, plus queens went platinum world wide the last time i checked.
She probably wasn’t even referring to Kim. However, her album was #2 so therefore it charted higher than the other 98 albums on the chart. Not to mention the albums that didn’t make it on the charts. Queen still went platinum with no airplay.
Nicki album is platinum
And was certified less than two mos later
Try again lying fagggg0t
Shut your dying ass up.
That entire era was smoke & mirrors. Not ONE hit was produced and nothing memorable came of it. So much so that she threatened retirement under the guise of starting a family w/a p********, r***** murderer.
Sit there and eat your food.
And that entire era still was a million times more successful than lil skims latest epic failure. Now sit and choke on your food.
Do we want to run Kim’s baby fathers rap sheet? ???????
Lol I knew the delusional lil kim fans were gonna find a way to blame Nicki for that epic flop, like it’s her fault that kim thought she was still relevant lmao ???♂️
IDK but to laugh or make fun of anyone’s failures says a lot about a person. People are to live happily and enjoy what they do, but sadly much of a majority rather be miserable asses.
Have you been telling that to the cardi b fans for the last year?
“‘9’ is the first album Kim has released since 2005’s ‘The Naked Truth’ and was launched by eOne Music whose parent company Entertainment Onegenerated $1,219,724,200 this year.”
Damn the reach.
What does that have to do with lil Kim selling less than 1k ?
Lil Kim didnt make them any of that money, infact shes costing them a fortune.
Don’t forget that wack ass Album Black Friday she tried to sell on PayPal which flopped miserably. Nicki Minaj always wins Saweetie your on the wrong team
Cardi u better return that torch back to lil Kim.
Selling less than 1k , that’s just sad.
Cuz kim never had the torch to begin with.
of course, yall will believe this, so now yall going to run with this fake nonsense more excuses for yall to hate on Nicki, plus queens went platinum world wide the last time i checked.
Let’s see how much Flopnika sells once she hits the 20th anniversary of her career. She already is flopping.
She’ll be smart enough to have a diverse career to not still be trying to rap at 46
Lol…yeah by being the p*** queen
And Flopnika and SMART ENOUGH in the same sentence LMAO!!!!
Onika isn’t gonna be stupid enough to think that she’s still relevant 20 years from now.
Flopping but she’s still on the billboard Charts this week with Hot Girl Summer ok Liar ? Bye
Oh, just another one of the many attempts at hitting no 1 and failing as usual LMAO
Regardless Lil Kim is still the queen of rap. Hardcore slays Nicki’s entire forgettable ass discography.
This thread is about sales of 9 let’s not get off track ????????
This thread is also about Flopnika’s lack of no 1‘s and Grammys boo
Them Grammys can’t keep a career AppArently
Cuz no one knows she was on the song until she talks about it ???
Queen of flop
Oh please, kim isnt the Queen of Rap any more than iggy azalea is, even if they’re doing the same numbers lmao ?
I hate this website nowadays.
Same it is so annoying trying to puch Nicki Mibaj and Beyonce down our throts.
SMH.
But Nicki, you’re following the blueprint of Lil Kim. Kim had 4 successful albums…you’ve had 4 albums. This is about to be you, hun.
Stay humble. Nasty h**
Nicki has 4 successful albums too b****
The cold facts
Women in this music industry need to stop tearing each other down. It’s disgusting. All these female MCs have put in work in this male dominated industry respect each others craft n hustle. Music isn’t the same from the earlier days. Not only that Kim a veteran put some respect on her name she was one of the few Queen MCs that birthed this generation. Be humbled
Again, did you all sell that bullsh!t to cardi B’s ratchet fanbase as they were tearing down Nicki Minaj all year long?? No, y’all were joining in on the fun of clowning her misfortune. So spare me the kumbaya female rap unity bullsh!t now that kim has flopped hard, yall didn’t have that unity energy when you were making fun of Queens first week sales.
Facts.
Yes talk the thing, remind them hypocrite’s because they always have the memory of a goldfish when they are defending favs, they never remember when they are dragging others. like the saying goes when you are digging a grave dig two.
Not the same Nicki who was destroyed by Remus then outsold and outcharted by Cardi B.
And we see who the real problem is and who has ALWAYS been the problem this is why Nicki gets so much hate and no respect from the Hip hop community she’s very much a Mentally childish little girl just like the lil kids in her fanbase. The people with clear sight can see Kim was never the problem she actually wished Nicki well and moved on from the beef but guess who’s still clinging to it keeping s*** going with more beefs which she just got involved in Iggy and Megs misunderstanding when she tweeted “B**** shut tf I” what real women in their thirties does this s*** Kim’s minding her biz but keep being pulled in by negativity can she fkn live already tf she forgave just about everybody who’s done her wrong even Drake who she’s cool with now. Nicki is the problem POINT BLANK PERIOD she’s not really for female Empowerment and it shows.
This is exactly what i’m talking about. She didn’t mention Kim once in those tweets, but because someone on the internet said it’s about her… not even Nicki herself. Now it’s down the rabbit hole to conjure up all this negativity. It will be her own fans too – then bardi gang gets in it…and then we have internet fiction cloaked as facts. SMH
Exactly, they hate Nicki so much they don’t even care if these stories are true are false. they don’t even do their research, someone says something negative about Nicki or claim one of her tweets is about someone..they just run with it. so disgusting.
What’s disgusting is that Nicki wouldn’t p*** on you if you were on fire yet y’all still wanna run between her legs with your tongue out under her p**** ready to catch it.
If i’m not mistaken that is exactly what you and the entire hate train are doing. Up under her p**** trying to catch every drop. Never will it make sense how you hate someone so much..yet find yourself clicking on every article and hitching up under the comments with your tentacles ready to type. So why don’t YOU hop up from under her p**** and move along Shayla.
dude why r y’all doing this how tf those tweets got anything to do with lil
kim stop it.
That’s what i’m saying. Throwing gas on a flame for no reason.
Nicki is pathetic flop who hasn’t had a platinum pure sales album since 2010. #Facts
Shut up you quack.
It’s probably the first album I’ve ever played where I didn’t like a single song
Let us not forget that time oinknika second album did so poorly that she had to re-release it and called it “re-try” ? at least Kim successfully sold over a million per album WITHOUT streams and without having to rerelease! Imagine sawking and fawking every radio and tv exec and damn near posing naked just to rerelease ?
TGJ y’all got some sloppy sissy’s on your staff billboard Top 200 (debut #42) Top Rap Albums (#5) and Top R&B/HipHop Albums (#7) might not be #1 but atleast be accurate smh. Y’all the type of punks that live for drama etc
No one expected Lil Kim to push major units. She’s a 45 year old legacy act who hasn’t released an album in nearly 15 years. It’s safe to say her commercial glory days are way behind her. The GP wants nostalgia from her, so she needs to stick with touring.
Talk about shipping wood…. Lol.. Whew chile..
Who buys albums these days??? It’s all about streaming. Based on what I’ve read she had over a million streams. Not sure what that equates to as far as units but I think that’s pretty good for not having an album in 15 years. Haters gonna hate. It is what it is.