At the beginning of the month, I reported about a few songs Foxy Brown was working on for Brooklyn Don Diva before getting thrown in the slammer.One was "Mr DJ" featuring a sample from Barrington Levy's "Here I Come (Broader Than Broadway)" song. The other was a collaboration with Mavado, "We're On Fire." She recorded the vocals for this second song before being locked up and basically turned...
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I love Foxy, I always have. Like most Jamaican women and dancehall survivors, she's tuff, she rolls with the punches and spits them back on the microphone. Every once in awhile we hear a softer side of the Brooklyn Don Diva, and judging from an excerpt of "Star Cry" which leaked this week, this is one of those songs. "Star Cry" is part of her upcoming Brooklyn Don Diva which was mostly recor...
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The May 19 issue of Ebony's Jet Magazine features the dangerous curves and rude gal smirk of Foxy Brown. It's her first magazine spread since she was released from Riker's Island. Foxy sounds like she's speaking to the parole board when she speaks to the magazine, saying:“If this didn’t happen and God didn’t intervene,” she told Jet, “my life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That’s
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Looks like Foxy Brown has been a good girl - she leaves Rikers on April 18th according to a new post on her blog:Alright I'm bout to get out on April 18th . Got the hotness dropping May 13th .Then I'm going on the tour with Trina but we need your help . We are running a demand contest and the city's with the most Demands wins a concert.
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The US prison system is having a hard time rehabilitating Foxy Brown. Even the notorious Rikers Island facility, where Brown has been incarcerated since September, hasn't broken the diva one bit. According to Geoffrey Davis, a friend of Brown's family and an activist who manages an anti-violence nonprofit org in Brooklyn, stated, "If they release her today, she'll be back in a week." Of cour...
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Foxy Brown was looking like a true Brooklyn Don Diva for a minute there - pulling strings from inside prison to ensure the completion of her newest album and its release. She recorded her vocals for "We’re On Fire" before entering Rikers Island prison, then Mavado laid down the track with his own vocals while she was adjusting to her new home. The album was due to drop this month, but a press.
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Foxy Brown, despite all the hype, has been working on her new album titled Brooklyn Don Diva which is due for release in December on Koch Records. The album features collaborations with some of Jamaica's ruffest and most controversial deejays (Jamaican deejays are what we call rappers, not record selectors). One song, "Mr. DJ," contains a classic Barrington Levy sample from his hit tune "Here...
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In what amounts to just about the ONLY good piece of Foxy Brown news that we've heard in ages, she's been let out of solitary confinement due to good behavior in jail. Foxy was supposed to be locked away for 23 hours a day in "punitive segregation" for two and a half months. Good behavior caused Brown to be released in 40 days. A source says Brown was one of only four women to be released out o...
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Incarcerated rapper Foxy Brown isn't getting out of Rikers Island jail anytime soon. She was further sentenced to 76 days of punitive segregation, a type of solitary confinement where one can spend up to 23 hours a day alone.The restriction comes after an altercation between Brown and a fellow inmate. Neither was injured. The fellow inmate received 11 days in punitive segregation for the scuffl...
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Even though she has had numerous run-ins with the law this year, most people assumed she'd get out of it somehow like most celebrities. The likelihood of Ms. Brown getting off the hook is growing slimmer by the day. Today in an eventful court hearing her defense lawyers requested to be removed from the case, which was denied by the judge. The Manhattan Criminal Court judge has the power to deci...
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Even from behind bars Foxy Brown was "allegedly" still the Don Diva. While other imprisoned female rappers like Lil Kim & Remy Ma were cut no slack while in the pin, Foxy Brown may have been the exception to the rule.When Brown was jailed back in 2007, word on the block is that she was "allegedly" allowed to partake in a photo shoot to promote her new album. What kind of mess is that? Now, jai...
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Brooklyn's own Foxy Brown has just released a brand new track titled Gettin' It Off The Muscle featuring Boss. Could Foxy be secretly planning a return to re-claim her throne? The signs point to hell yea!Word is Foxy is moving forward with the plans to drop her 5th album Black Roses next year in 2010 via her very own label, Black Rose Entertainment under Koch Records. Pop the hood for the scoo...
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Shots Fired: Foxy Brown Lettin Lil Kim Have It On This New Track! “Will Never See Me Dancing With The Stars. Never Will I Embarass My Borough. Im Too Thorough” [Audio]
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Ask me a Foxy Brown song and I'd have to think about it a little, but ask me the last time the rapper had a run-in with the cops and I could give you a list at a mile-a-minute. That list gets longer and jucier following this weekend.The New York Daily News reported that the 27-year-old Foxy Brown was ganged up on by four of her pimp boyfriend's gal-pals. After finding out her boyfriend, was ind...
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Foxy Brown has the cover story in September's issue of XXL Magazine, and speaks about her long rocky relationship with Jay-Z. Back in 1996 Foxy Brown was the big star, and Jay-Z was her little known sidekick. Twelve years later Jay-Z is one of the most powerful men in music and Foxy's been reduced to a tabloid disaster. She opened up to XXL in a teary eyed interview about the nature of her rela...
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