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»Brooklyn's Don Diva[04.26.08] --- |
You can listen to snippets of Foxy Brown's new album "Brooklyn's Don Diva" (which is supposed to be released May 13th) here. Leave comments on what you think! :)
Also on April 24th Foxy went back to court and agreed to a plea deal from the salon scuffle she had in Feb 2007. You can view video here.
»Out & About and In Court[04.23.08] --- |
Some candid photos of Foxy were taken in NYC as she was leaving her hotel room on Tuesday (April 22nd). You can view the photos tagged here.
Foxy Brown was in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom Wednesday (April 23rd) for a hearing stemming from her February 2007 arrest following a salon scuffle.
One of her attorneys asked to be withdrawn from the case because of a conflict he is having with other attorneys. That lawyer said he doesn't agree with a plea offer made by the state attorney's office.
Voices rose when Brown, who uses a hearing aid, had a difficult time hearing the judge.
"Do you agree that you have a conflict with (Brown's attorney)?" asked the judge.
"I can't hear him?" Brown replied.
"He said do you agree that we have a conflict," snapped the lawyer.
"Oh, well, I don't have a conflict with anyone," Brown said. "I just want proper representation."
"Who's going to be your lawyer, Ms. Marchand? Who are you going to hire?" the judge asked.
"What?" Brown said.
"Who are you going to hire?" her lawyer shouted back.
According to a Pembroke Pines arrest report, Brown was applying beauty products in the bathroom when a Queen Beauty Supply employee told her the business was closed and it was time to leave. She refused and threw hair glue at the employee, the report said. Brown then spat on the man as he called 911, staining his shirt, the report said.
She must now hire a new attorney and return to court two weeks from Wednesday.
»New Photos & Video Footage of Foxy leaving Prison![04.19.08] --- |
Foxy looked so happy when she came out of a white Rolls-Royce Phantom. Nick who runs FoxBrown.com and sexy Wanda definately represented all the fox fans there! You can view tons of photos from yesterday by just clicking on one of the photos below to enter the FOX OUT OF PRISON gallery! :)
I'm thinking we are going to have alot of updates on Foxy soon!
New Audio
Foxy Brown ft Lil Mo "Gangsta Love [Edited Version] MP3 Download
»Foxy's Back Baby!!!!![04.19.08] --- |
Rapper Foxy Brown got out of the Big House Friday, and said she was heading straight for God's house.
"The first place I want to go is church. I've got to get on my knees," the hip-hop honey said.
First, though, she went shopping in Harlem and stopped for a little soul food. Then she made a beeline for her childhood home in Brooklyn.
"Feels good, feels good, feels good," she said, climbing out of a white Rolls-Royce Phantom and running up the stoop of her family's Prospect Heights home into her mother's arms.
"I love you, Mommy," she told her mother, Judith Marchand, who presented the freed jailbird with smiley-face balloons and an arrangement of cut fruit shaped like flowers.
"This is my house, my mother and whole family, my neighborhood, the room I wrote my first rap song in," Brown gushed, as a VH1 film crew captured the moment for an upcoming reality show. "This is real emotional for me."
While relishing the welcome-home hugs and kisses, she sounded less than contrite about her stretch behind bars.
"I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown," she said.
She did credit her incarceration with shedding light on who her true supporters are.
"That's when I really got to see the people who truly love me for me," she said.
The raunchy rapper, born Inga Marchand, received a rapturous greeting from family and fans outside Rikers Island when she was released after serving eight months for attacking two manicurists in 2004.
"I'm home, I'm home. I'm back," she squealed, tears streaming down her face.
During a stop on 125th St., she greeted fans who approached her car, picked up some new handbags and stopped for fried chicken at Amy Ruth's.
The 29-year-old singer, wearing a Fendi scarf and leather blazer, left the prison in style, thanks to City Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn), who drove her out in his black Chevy instead of the public bus that usually ferries ex-cons to freedom.
Brown was sentenced to three years' probation in October 2006. But a judge packed her off to jail when she decided the long-nailed, short-fused star wasn't taking her probation seriously after she hit a woman in the face with a cell phone and threw a pot of hair glue at a worker in a Queens store.
Brown is hoping to hype her first album since 2001, "Brooklyn's Don Diva," which is due out May 13.
Foxy Brown is going to strut her way out of prison tomorrow, and we're hearing that there could be some serious fireworks when she walks out of those doors at Rikers.
The rapperista's peeps are planning to make a total media event out of Foxy's release -- full press conference, photo op, fandemonium, the whole nine prison yards.
But the Department of Corrections is not down with Brown -- telling us the parking lot where Foxy will emerge is way too small, and they're trying to jock block the event. Can anyone say clusterf***?
»Foxy Brown To Be Released From Prison Friday[04.16.08] --- |
I'm so excited that Foxy is finally getting out of jail and she is going to be able to get her career together. Foxy we all have your back! Just do it! :) Oh and to all the haters leaving comments over and over get the FUCK OUT and GET A LIFE! LOL
Article featured on MTV.COM below...
When Foxy Brown's fans have been talking about "Gotta get you home" over the past several months, they haven't been paying homage to her decade-plus-old song. They meant they would like to see the Brooklyn MC out of the confines of Riker's Island, where she has been serving out a year sentence for parole violation since August of last year. But according to her manager, Chaz Williams, Brown is due to be released from jail on Friday.
"She did every single minute of her bid in jail and she did it under the most severe conditions," Williams said, according to Billboard.com. "They had her on continuous lockdown just because she is a celebrity. They were trying to break her spirit." (Stephen Morello, deputy commissioner of public information for the city's correction department, told the site that Foxy was placed in protective custody per her request, noting that some inmates request that status "because their prominence or other circumstances might make them targets").
The self-proclaimed "Bad Girl" has been relatively quiet since a prison fracas that got her sent into solitary confinement in October; she was moved out of solitary the following month. This past January, Foxy filed for early release to seek better treatment for her sensorineural hearing loss, which she suffered in 2006 right in the middle of making a comeback on Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella records.
"I ask you to please take into consideration that my health is in jeopardy," Brown reportedly wrote in a handwritten letter that was submitted as part of an appeal at New York State Supreme Court. "Yes, I've made some bad choices and stupid mistakes," she continued in the four-page letter. "But please understand that sitting in a prison with murderers and criminals is not rehabilitating or what I need to deal with my inner issues. ... Up until now, you've only heard about Foxy Brown the artist. I'd like to show you Inga Marchand the beautiful person that my mom raised me to be. Jail has shaken me to my core, and my time away has impacted me greatly."
Williams explained to MTV News that Brown wanted to see a hearing specialist in California.
"Her hearing implants need to be programmed a certain way," he said in January. "They can't be removed and sent in for repair without a serious surgery. So she would have to go to a doctor in California. And while people incarcerated don't necessarily get the doctor of their choice, they don't perform that type of implant within the prison system."
Also in January, a track named "Star Cry" leaked to the Internet where Foxy addressed her controversy the past few years and how she is portrayed in the media.
"How can y'all judge my life, like I ain't have a struggle?" she vented. "Sometimes I feel like I live inside a f---ing bubble/ I work hard for mine, baby, I'm a thoroughbred/ And I don't care what channel 5 and the haters said."
Her next album, Brooklyn's Don Diva, is slated to drop either in the spring or summer, and she is reportedly in talks with television networks about a reality show as well. There has been no definitive word on the fate of her LP, Black Roses, that she worked on while at her first recording home Def Jam. The project was to feature such notables as her dear friend Luther Vandross and one time inseparable confidant/ rhyme accomplice Jay-Z.
"Jay wants to jump on every record," Foxy told MTV News in 2005. "I'll come in the studio and I'll hear a verse [already recorded], like, 'Where did that come from?' But I love that. Jay is in a class by himself and doesn't easily get on people's records. For him to want to be such a part of my music means I'm doing a great job. There's definitely a 'Bonnie and Clyde' [part] four, five and six on my album.
"It's coming along just as I've imagined it," Jay divulged at the time. "We're going through it, we're having our clashes, it's all perfect. The music is coming out amazing, though."
Several tracks from the set have leaked over the years however, surfacing on mixtapes. In August of last year, right before she went to prison, it was announced that Brown had officially left Def Jam and brokered a independent deal on Koch Records.
It seems that Foxy Brown can't catch a break these days. SOHH has learned that her latest album has been pushed back yet again.
The Brooklyn bred MC will now see the release of her LP, Brooklyn's Don Diva, re-scheduled for the second time. The album, which had been pushed back to a February 5th release date, now won't be released until this spring. Chaz Williams, Foxy's manager, told SOHH the decision was made so the rapper would not have to forgo promotion of the album and enjoy a proper release.
"The album release date has been changed at the direction of Foxy and Black Hand Management," Williams said. "Foxy will be out in April and we wanted her to be able to participate in the promotion of this album."
"This also gives us the opportunity to get out the proper visuals and videos to support her records, as well as the opportunity to do live radio promo and tour in support album release," he added. "This was a business decision we felt served our best interest as an independent record company."
This is just the latest setback for the troubled MC, who recently had a request for an early release from prison denied. Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson denied the request on Thursday (Jan. 24), saying Foxy failed to provide any medical proof that she needed to undergo a procedure to receive a cochlear ear implant. Foxy contends that she needs the implant to preserve her hearing. Her cochlear was reportedly damaged after she was punched during an altercation with another inmate.
Foxy Brown has made plenty of headlines in the past year for a variety of run-ins with the law, court appearances and being sentenced to a year in prison in August on a probation violation.
But the rapper hadn't addressed her tribulations — until this week, when a new track, "Star Cry," leaked to the Internet.
She raps on the chorus: "Lord have mercy/ I'm so controversy/ Bet you never seen a star cry/ I gave you my life/ You get my blood, sweat and tears/ Hip-hop's bad girl for 10 f---ing years."
"I loved the record. I didn't know if [her manager] Chaz [Williams] or the label was going to put it out," Foxy's friend and former publicist Marvet Britto told MTV News. "I heard parts of it before, but I'm just now hearing the entire thing. I think it's great. She's opening up and unleashing and revealing some of the pain."
According to Williams, the track was recorded prior to the rapper's sentencing in August. Williams said Foxy held a few private recording sessions, during which she wouldn't allow anyone else to enter the studio. It was during that time that she recorded "Song Cry."
"It was real introspective and real personal to her and she acted that way during the recording of it," Williams explained.
"I thought it was one of the best records she's done by far, to me," he added. "I felt that it was something that she did a lot different than she did before, even when she did personal records. 'Cause she made the distinction between her stage presence and her personal, which is Inga Marchand [Foxy's birth name]. I think it's easy for artists to lose sight of who they are, especially when you have so many people trying to get at you. And I think her experience, both bad and good and more bad, relating to the hearing problem, made her take another look at herself and see that she was vulnerable, really vulnerable, and she put it into the music."
Apparently "Brooklyn's Don Diva" has been pushed back again to February 5th. Read this awesome Rolling Stone review of "Brooklyn's Don Diva" below.
Foxy Brown is in solitary confinement at Rikers Island, but her husky voice took over Chung King Studios in downtown Manhattan last night: “I still make the front-page news if I just sneeze!” Foxy, who’s serving a year in prison for violating her probation (with seventy-six days in solitary for fighting), sets a fierce tone on “Rumors of Fox” from Brooklyn’s Don Diva (Koch/Black Hand) with the brazen braggadocio fans have been waiting six years for.
Though she’s been in the hole since October 23rd — twenty-three hours a day, with one hour outside the cell for physical activity — Foxy’s still actively involved with the release of Don Diva (set to hit stores on February 5th), changing the album art and answering fan mail from inside. The label considers the street album a prelude to her long-awaited Black Roses. Don Diva, recorded before Brown was sentenced, encompasses Foxy’s experiences over the past few years: the physical altercations, court dates, tabloid talk, going deaf, undergoing surgery, regaining her hearing. “It’s about everything she went through,” Mixtape MC and Black Hand labelmate Grafh explains. “It’s gonna be the biggest comeback since Mimi.”
The first few tracks sound like Grafh might be right. The insistent New York anthem “We Don’t Surrender” is made for bumping full blast in grimy clubs and trucks. “We’re On Fire” features Mavado’s guttural chanting while Foxy raps in patois and reminds us that she’s the “same bitch since before rap.” Brown switches from salty to sugary on the radio-friendly first single “When the Lights Go Out,” on which she rhymes fast about how you might get a sniff and lick of the Na Na.
The majority of the album is backed by Black Hand’s in-house producers, and Don Diva leans towards mixtape quality in both sound and content. The standout track, “Star Cry” features Foxy at her best over a simple beat — an unhurried delivery and introspective lyrics about the controversy she’s endured. “Only black bitch to get press like the white bitches …” she spits. “Look inside my soul, I’m just a little insecure, after thirteen years I feel I deserve more.”
She may claim that she deserves more, but Foxy raps like she still has something to prove, boasting about the designer labels she wears and how long she’s been in the game. “Gangsta Love” featuring Lil Mo and the reggae-inspired “Dreams” are both about being in love with men from the streets. “I’m addicted to drug dealers,” Fox raps on the latter, “I used to fiend for the call.” On the moody “Still Strugglin’, ” Foxy goes from calling herself “the black Kim Kardashian” to revealing “I remember I was five when a nigga first put his hands on me.”
If Foxy has this much to get off her chest after losing her hearing, imagine what she’ll unleash after spending twenty-three hours a day alone, isolated in lockdown. “She’s focused. Her spirits is high,” says Foxy’s manager Chaz Williams, who has filed for Brown’s early release and hopes she’ll be home by Christmas. “She surprises me sometimes.”
Source: Rolling Stone
» Album Promo Photo[11.08.07] --- |
A new image from the Brooklyn's Don Diva photoshoot has surfaced on the internet, click on the thumbnail on the right to view full size.
Make sure you request "When The Lights Go Out" at your local radio station. Lets get this song out there! Also Foxy's official website has been updated with a few things, you can view the website here.
» What Jay-Z thinks about Foxy's situation[11.05.07] --- |
Jay-Z was interviewed by XXL Magazine and had this to say about Foxy's situation.
At this point—you can only help somebody to a certain point then you gotta let them help themselves and hopefully you’ll meet back up. That’s where it is for me. It’s like, if you see somebody just keep banging their head on the wall, and you keep fixing it and they still banging their head and they keep doing things… You gotta at some point say—alright, you—gotta stop touching that, you’re going to get burnt. Stop touching that—you’re going to get burnt. At some point, you gotta let them touch it and get burnt. And then hopefully, they’ll come back around some day. You just got to let somebody walk his or her path.
Source: XXLMAG
» Album Cover[10.31.07] --- |
Koch Records uploaded a small photo of Foxy Brown's new album "Brooklyn Don Diva", you can click the photo on the right to see it a little larger or you can go to Foxy Brown's page on Kochentertainment.com
The album cover looks pretty hot from what I can tell. Foxy posing infront of the Brooklyn bridge just like the original Foxy Brown did. Lil Kim had a similar album cover with "La Bella Mafia", but I can say Foxy's is much better. I think seeing the album cover really hit me with the fact that Foxy really will be releasing a new album soon! YES! FINALLY! lol
What are your thoughts on the album cover? Leave a comment!
» Foxy-Brown.com coming back soon![10.24.07] --- |
After a long hiatus I think I might finally have time to open the website back up. I would like to open the gallery back up with the extensive collection of photos that I had, and open with a large category of mp3's to download. Leave some feedback if you want the website back up or if you have any ideas.
Foxy Brown's new album is still going to come out even though she is in jail for a year. "Brooklyn's Don Diva" is scheduled for a December 11th release date, hopefully it dosen't get pushed back again.
Thats all I have to say really! "Lights Go Out" is a pretty hot track, "Were on Fire" is pretty good aswell but honestly I was hoping for better. You can Download both tracks in MP3 format below.
Foxy Brown ft Kiara "Lights Go Out" Download Foxy Brown ft Mavado "We're On Fire" Download
» Foxy Brown Placed In Solitary Confinement[10.24.07] --- comment
For all of Foxy Brown's missed court dates, probation violations and altercations over the past three years, the judge hearing her case, Melissa C. Jackson, provided the troubled rapper with a reasonably long leash. It was only after repeated warnings that Jackson sentenced the Brooklyn artist to a year in prison.
The staff at the Rose M. Singer facility, however — where Brown has been jailed since August 22 before her sentencing— don't seem to be as patient.
The rapper's manager, Chaz Williams of Blackhand Entertainment, confirmed to MTV News that Foxy has been ordered into solitary confinement, although he did not confirm some details that the New York Post reported on Wednesday (October 23).
The paper said Foxy is set to remain in solitary for 76 days due to three separate infractions that occurred over the past 30 days, according to a source.
The first of the three incidents that Brown is being disciplined for occurred October 3, according to the Post, when the rapper and another female inmate got into a scuffle that had to be broken up by prison officials.
The next day, Brown was accused of verbally assaulting officials and refusing to take a mandatory drug test.
(The infractions do not include her recent late arrival to a court date in Brooklyn. She allegedly refused to leave her cell until she'd changed into a different outfit and applied makeup, leading her to miss a bus scheduled to transport her to the courthouse. She then refused to leave the facility without eating lunch first.)
The Department of Correction reviewed matters and placed the rapper in "punitive segregation." She is only permitted to leave for one hour each day to see visitors, meet with her attorney or partake in a limited number of recreation options. The other inmate involved in the fight was given 11 days of solitary confinement.
A call placed to the Department of Correction by MTV News did not confirm whether Foxy (real name: Inga Marchand) was placed in solitary confinement. Her lawyer, New York State Senator Jack Sampson, was unavailable at press time, according to a representative at his office.
"She definitely is in solitary confinement for some infractions that were written up against her," Williams said. "Unfortunately for her, [the Post wasn't] accurate with some of the details, and some of the stuff that they are saying is really a result of her hearing problem. Some of the details in the Post aren't as accurate, but she is in solitary confinement and she's faced with some disciplinary time to serve."
Williams said he believes that officials at the Singer facility aren't following proper procedure in regard to her health, specifically her weak hearing condition. He said he believes Foxy should still be in the general population at the prison rather than in solitary confinement.
Brown has had her share of headline-grabbing incidents over the past three years, beginning with an altercation in New York with two nail-salon employees in August 2004. The rapper eventually pleaded guilty to assault charges and was placed on probation. Since then, a number of violations, from assaulting another woman with a BlackBerry cell phone to leaving the jurisdiction of New York without permission, led to her incarceration.
In December 2005, Foxy claimed she had been diagnosed with sudden hearing loss. The rare condition threatened to end her career, but a series of treatments improved her condition enough to resume recording material and appearing at Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt anniversary concert (see "Foxy Brown Returns: Deafness Cured, She's Back To Work").
The longtime Def Jam artist recently left the label to sign with indie powerhouse Koch Records and is scheduled to release an album of new material (recorded prior to her confinement) titled Brooklyn's Don Diva through her Black Rose Entertainment company. The album is scheduled to drop November 20.
You can listen to snippets of Foxy Brown's new album "Brooklyn's Don Diva" (which is supposed to be released May 13th) 
Some candid photos of Foxy were taken in NYC as she was leaving her hotel room on Tuesday (April 22nd). You can view the photos tagged 
After a long hiatus I think I might finally have time to open the website back up. I would like to open the gallery back up with the extensive collection of photos that I had, and open with a large category of mp3's to download. Leave some feedback if you want the website back up or if you have any ideas.
For all of Foxy Brown's missed court dates, probation violations and altercations over the past three years, the judge hearing her case, Melissa C. Jackson, provided the troubled rapper with a reasonably long leash. It was only after repeated warnings that Jackson sentenced the Brooklyn artist to a year in prison.