Lil Kim - 9

I listened to Lil Kim's #newalbum -9.  I didn’t like it, it doesn’t sound like her. It lacks originality, she sounds so much like what everyone else is doing, that she ends up sounding like a featured artist on her album. Whatever producers and writers she was working with, she completely embodies their style to the point that the album is essentially glorified karaoke. It’s not aged appropriate, she sounds exactly like one of these new Lil or young rappers, she sounds like the people she influenced. She exhibits no skills or influences reminiscent of her era or signature style. The lyrics and delivery were so-so. The production is alright. The album is beneath her at this point in her career, it showed no growth, development, neither did it prove that shd has it. There's no straight to radio single, no big hit, nothing for the club, it's street and underground. I'd give it a C-