The New York Post reports Brookland Media filed a $2.5 lawsuit against Lil Kim on Tuesday (Oct. 7). The upstart label was founded by the production duo Jean-Claude “Poke” Olivier and Samuel “Tone” Barnes, collectively known as the Trackmasters. According to papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Brookland spent $240,000 to produce eight songs and paid the $12,000 monthly rent on an Alpine, NJ. home for the “Queen Bee.”Brookline also alleges it paid $200,000 to get Kim released from her previous contract with Atlantic Records.
In the suit, Kim is also accused of making the “outlandish post-contract demands” of requesting the production services of Wyclef Jean and Akon.
“We think they’re wonderful people and we expect to do business with them,” says Londell McMillan, an attorney for Lil’ Kim. “But they did not honor the terms of the agreement.”McMillan added that Kim only wants to protect her image.
Lil Kim‘s career has besieged with setbacks since releasing The Naked Truth in 2005. In March of 2005, she was convicted of three counts of perjury and one count of conspiracy for lying to a federal grand jury about a shootout outside of a New York radio station. She would serve a 366-day prison sentence for the charges, before releasing the album Ms. G.O.A.T. in 2008. Things got worse after an assistant bartender bludgeoned a woman to death during Lil Kim‘s birthday party in August.
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For their part, representatives from Brookland believe the suit will be resolved amicably.
“We’ll work it out around a conference table, in front of a judge or over some martinis,” says Jonathan Davis, a lawyer for Brookland Media.
