Lil Kim: Rapper Announces Her First New Album in 14 Years

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Lil’ Kim performs onstage during VH1 Hip Hop Honors: The 90s Game Changers at Paramount Studios on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
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*Lil Kim has announced plans to release her first album in 14 years this summer.

The Queen Bee hit up Twitter to reveal that her latest full-length album, which will be her fifth LP, is titled 9.

The music video for the album’s single “Go Awff” is expected to drop Friday.

Kim’s last album, “The Naked Truth,” dropped in 2005 and featured the single “Lighters Up.”  It was preceded by “La Bella Mafia” (2003), “The Notorious K.I.M” (2000), and “Hard Core” (1996).

The Brooklyn rap will release her long-awaited comeback album on May 17.

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She released the first single “Go Awff” last month, have a listen to it below, and peep Lil Kim’s Instagram announcement above about her upcoming project.

Missy Elliott offered her support when Kim announced 9. “Congratulations sis,” she wrote on Twitter. “Can’t wait.”

According to NME, Kim initially intended to drop her new record last November, after the release of the “Nasty One” track over the summer.

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Last year, Kim hit up MTV’s TRL and teased that a “Lady Marmalade” reunion could be on the horizon.

You recall she appeared alongside Mya, Christina Aguilera and Pink for a remake of the classic Patti LaBelle track, which appeared on the soundtrack to 2001’s “Moulin Rouge!”.

WATCH:

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