This Saturday, marks the TWENTIETH Anniversary of Notorious Kim! Notorious Kim is the second studio album, of Kim’s career, and was released on June 27th, 2000 by Atlantic Records and was also her first album that came from under new record label Queen Bee Entertainment.

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It debuted at number four on the US chart, on the Billboard Hot 200 selling 229,000 copies in its first week, achieving Lil’ Kim’s highest peak and biggest first-week sales, and reached the top of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

It was the best-selling female rap album in 2000 with sales of over 1.4 million copies in the United States. The lead single for Notorious Kim was “No Matter What They Say” and the second lead single being, “How Many Licks,” the first single peaked at number 60 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 15 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

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To date, The Notorious K.I.M. has sold over 5.2 million copies worldwide.

Lil’ Kim had even celebrated the 20th anniversary on her Twitter and on Instagram from this Saturday, with the album being at the No. 10 spot on the Hip-Hop/Rap albums on the Apple Music charts as an indicator that fans supporting the album on its 20th Anniversary.

https://twitter.com/LilKim/status/1277120377844457472

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Notorious K.I.M is a pretty important album, just as much as Hardcore was for female rap. If anything, it gave other female rappers a chance to show that you can be versatile in doing other genres such as you can do Pop, and R&B type records and still be within the Hip-Hop and Rap lane. This was the start of Lil’ Kim’s versatility as an artist, and showed that she can do other genres in music.

Notorious K.I.M personally is not only still one of my favorite Lil’ Kim albums in her discography, but its one favorite albums in Rap! I do think in terms of her discography this doesn’t get bought up enough like Hardcore or even La Bella Mafia. I do think this album, should get way more credit that what it does get.

Happy 20th Anniversary Notorious K.I.M! 🎉❤️