According to a source close to SOHH, Lil Kim will be joining the Interscope Records roster which includes 50 Cent (who she has an ongoing feud with), Pharrell Williams, Eve, Black Eyed Peas and Eminem, among others. SOHH is also told Kim is planning a tour for the end of this year, and will release her fifth album on Interscope in the summer of 2007.
Representatives for both Atlantic and Interscope refused to comment when contacted by SOHH.
Ironically, an unscientific poll of 541 voters on her fansite, LilKimZone, pegged the petite rapper to sign with DefJam (32%), Interscope's sister label Geffen (25%) or Interscope (16%).
Lil Kim released her last album, The Naked Truth, on Atlantic Records while in jail in November 2005. The album, though critically acclaimed, failed to produce the chart topping hits or sales of her previous platinum works due to her incarceration.
Kim has kept quiet since her release from jail, but recently released a new mixtape track "Brooklyn For Life" [download] with Maino and Papoose.
In related news, Kim is readying to launch the second season of her BET reality show, "Countdown to Lockdown". The first season, which debuted earlier this year, captured footage of the Grammy Award winning rapper , before she turned herself into the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center to serve her 366-day sentence.
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