Say It Ain't So Kim!

I just want to believe that Lil' Kim is telling the truth about these "Black Friday" mixtape sales. I like Lil' Kim and she seems to be down to earth and respectable outside of this extremely strange issue that she has with Nicki Minaj that some people are calling an obsession. While listening to Power 105 New York, on air personality Charlamagne Tha God made the obsessive reference by saying that "when Nicki Minaj said 'which bitch you know made a million off a mixtape' that she decided to do that". He went on to talk about running with the "Pink Friday" theme and turning it into "Black Friday" which was entertaining as it flowed with his ribbing of Kim and could used to demonstrate obsessive behavior. The obsession theory could be thrown out there as one of those ridiculous conspiracy theories like the every successful entertainer is part of the Illuminati, or "there are 27 diamonds on his watch which is the date that an Egyptian ruler died so that means that he is claiming to be the ruler of a new dynasty" but there have been some instances that play into the banter. To Lil' Kim's defense, what she did makes sense in the spirit of Hip Hop Battles. Kim took the idea to rebuttal and refute.

Now that I've shed some of my thoughts, (and they are simply my thoughts) the point of this all is that Lil' Kim claimed to sell over 100,000 copies of the mixtape for $9.99 on Pay Pal in a little more than 24 hours. The price makes a difference because that is where the Nicki Minaj million dollar mixtape bitch reference enters the arena. The simple math of 100,000 x 10 = $1,000,000 gives fuel to the "obsession" fire because a parallel to Nicki is created with that. The disbelief of this feat takes a front row seat at the arena when a reported Pay Pal representative stated that one million dollars worth of transactions would trigger an audit by Pay Pal and shut down her site, and also that the site had only been visited only around 24,000 times. With that math every person who clicked in the site would have to purchase 4.16 albums. The representative did not specifically deny or back up Lil' Kim's claims, but if that information is accurate, it would be tough to believe that things happened the way her camp claims.

I have no personal stake in any of this, but it's Hip Hop, and I live for Hip Hop talk barbershop style and "this isht smells funkay". Yes, I meant Funkay with the ay cause that means a little more than funky. As I stated in previous articles about this, I don't understand why so much effort was put into this battle by Kim in the first place. But more than that, almost a year later with no significant progress, I don't know why she's still pursuing it. This would be the time to put out an album on her own accord while people are watching her and give her die hard fans something. To be real about it, "Romans Revenge" was a massacre. Kim's reply was solid and respectable, but not strong enough in my opinion. Right then is when she should have either let it be or maintained an onslaught all of the way until now; not sit back and then months later "here comes the mixtape". That's whack! She should have been killing her every Friday until "Black Friday" to put some pressure on. Nicki had no pressure and that's why no one has heard much from her about Kim since "Roman's Revenge. Again, I love Kim but, this is not a good move for a veteran and I hope that these numbers weren't skewed as the reports have been and that she just puts out some dope music.

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