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As most of us question Lil Kim’s claim of her record-breaking sales on PayPal, Rap Up reached out to the Queen Bee. She comments on her detractors and Nicki Minaj’s reaction to her mixtape sales.

You tweeted that you sold 113,000 copies of Black Friday within 28 hours. Is that accurate?
Right now it could be more.

What do you say to those who question the authenticity of those figures?
At the end of the day, you’re always going to have your haters. We need the haters. There was actually a representative at PayPal who basically didn’t really confirm or deny it, but also [said] that they’re very happy and proud of the success of Lil’ Kim. I think numbers in other areas speak for themselves. I mean, why aren’t they questioning the Black Friday [video] being at 2.5 [million views] in less than 18 hours? Why aren’t they questioning that? What’s the difference? How can you add up one thing and not the other? I just feel like people pick and choose the area that they want to attack [laughs].

Do you know the current sales numbers?
No, I actually don’t know right now. I have a team that kinda checks up on all that. We’ll keep you posted.

Nicki Minaj laughed off your sales claims. Did you see that?
I heard about it. I didn’t see it actually for myself, but to be honest with you, homegirl is basically obsolete to me right now. She’s doing a lot of lame stuff. She’s so lame to me right now—she’s always been, but now really. At the end of the day, her sales can be questioned also. Not to say she didn’t have the build-up, but the only thing you kept hearing before her album dropped was nobody liked it, it was wack. Don’t get me wrong, she might have a couple songs that are OK, but who cares. The haters will be haters, that’s their job, and we need them.

Swizzy, along with his sons Kaseem and Nasir connect the fundamentals of learning to help promote the February 21 episode of the PBS KIDS GO! series, The Electric Company. Let’s all: listen, speak, write, read—or watch.

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Out of nowhere, Wiz comes through with a spankin’ new mixtape. The tape includes eight brand new tracks with features from Big Sean, Juicy J & Trae The Truth. Tracklist and download link after the jump.

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Off the release of the Money Making Jam Boys’ The Prestige mixtape, the group: Black Thought, Dice Raw, Truck North, P.O.R.N. and STS all stopped by Tony Touch’s weekly radio show for a freebie. Thank God, our pal Al came through with the audio.

Crooked I is back with some new music and he dedicates this joint to his favorite Twitter hashtag. Not really sure if this is ending up anywhere, but its a good listen. Enough said, adios.

After Pusha T responded to Consequence’s claim of shark biting on “My God”, Cons lays it down thick with Karmaloop TV and explains his reasoning for the accusation. Here’s the good, bad, and ugly.

Although Wiz Khalifa looks lifted, he lands on the cover of FADER’s Spring Style issue. Alternative rocker, James Blake on the other side. Issue hits newsstands March 8th.

Lupe is currently making his promo rounds for Lasers across the pond. During his interview with Tim Westwood, he went HAM over Ye and Jay’s track. This goes harder than a muthafucka too.

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Snoop is keeping his Doggumentary virals rolling in and has begun shooting his next video. It appears E-40 is also on the track. Jeezy’s verse leaked last week. Make yourself at home with more snaps below.

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During Grammy weekend, Quddus caught up with A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg. Phife spoke on the positive reviews of Michael Rapaport’s documentary at Sundace last month and admitted to getting emotional over it. Tattoo those tears of joy.