Lil' Kim – real name Kimberly Jones – was sued by a record company for $2.5 million. The company, independent record label Brookland Media, alleges that the rapper hasn't delivered all the recordings mentioned in the contract they signed with her.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan's State Supreme Court. The suit said that the recording company signed a contract with the Grammy-winning rapper and then spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on recordings, equipment and payments in advance, but the artist asked for a contract change and refused to continue her work unless the company agreed.

According to court documents, Lil’ Kim had recorded only three new tracks for the new album by the beginning of September. The recording company seeks to declare the contract valid and forbid the artist to agree with another company for recording, so the raunchy rapper won’t be recording her new album until she settles the lawsuit with Brookland Media.

The recording company paid Lil’ Kim a $300,000 advance to buy out her contract with Atlantic Records. Brookland also told the court it spent $12,000 per month to rent a house near the rapper's New Jersey home.

When asked about the lawsuit, Lil’ Kim’s lawyer, Londell McMillan, said Brookland sued "to leverage their own position" in the contract dispute.

A preliminary hearing was set by a judge at New York’s Supreme Court for November 5.