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"Lil Kim has denied reports that her self-proclaimed sales figures for new mixtape Black Friday are inaccurate.  The rapper - who previously claimed via Twitter that she had sold more than 113,000 copies of the $10 record in the first 24 hours after its release - said that she was not bothered by &amp;quot;haters&amp;quot; who dispute the figures but insisted that the numbers released were true.  &amp;quot;At the end of the day, you&amp;#039;re always going to have your haters. We need the haters. There was actually a representative at PayPal who basically didn&amp;#039;t really confirm or deny it, but also [said] that they&amp;#039;re very happy and proud of the success of Lil Kim,&amp;quot; she told Rap-Up.com. &amp;quot;I think numbers in other areas speak for themselves. I mean, why aren&amp;#039;t they questioning the &amp;#039;Black Friday&amp;#039; [video] being at 2.5 [million views] in less than 18 hours? Why aren&amp;#039;t they questioning that? What&amp;#039;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].&amp;quot; Kim also addressed rumours that rap rival Nicki Minaj - at whom the tape is believed to be directed - was sceptical of Black Friday&amp;#039;s success.  &amp;quot;I heard about it. I didn&amp;#039;t see it actually for myself, but to be honest with you, homegirl is basically obsolete to me right now. She&amp;#039;s doing a lot of lame stuff. She&amp;#039;s so lame to me right now - she&amp;#039;s always been, but now really,&amp;quot; she said.  &amp;quot;At the end of the day, her sales can be questioned also. Not to say she didn&amp;#039;t have the build-up, but the only thing you kept hearing before her album dropped was nobody liked it, it was wack. Don&amp;#039;t get me wrong, she might have a couple of songs that are okay but who cares?&amp;quot; Kim added: &amp;quot;The haters will be haters - that&amp;#039;s their job, and we need them.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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