• Simon & Schuster has sued both Foxy Brown and Lil Kim for not coming through on books, despite being paid advances. In 2006, Foxy was paid $75,000 in hopes that she'd write an autobiography, while Kim was given $40,000 in 2004 for a novel. (Fiction still gets no respect, even when it's penned by a famous-ish person.) [Bloomberg via ProHipHop]
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Foxy Brown: Out of jail and ready to make penance at church, complete with outfit that looks like it was at least partially inspired by the garb worn by women in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. [Young, Black & Fabulous via Nah Right]
Ill Na Na is coming home on April 18, after having served eight of her twelve-month sentence for attacking a neighbor with her BlackBerry while under probation for attacking the staff at a nail salon. "She did every single minute of her bid in jail, and she did it under the most severe conditions," said manager Chaz Williams. We remember, but that's over now. What isn't is Foxy's career, what with a new album in the wings and, shock of shocks, the possibility of a reality show.
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Let's start a rumor about Foxy Brown's latest prison escapades everybody! And then spread it over the Internet willy nilly! (Between the "Daily Swarm keeps flogging the MBV reunion" thing and the "Jay-Z threatens to throw Rihanna out a window" nonsense that I saw on a few of the hip-hop blogs, it seems to be a good week for unsubtantiated rumors. And everyone certainly loves a Foxy Brown-related post, now don't they?) XXL reports that crazy ol' Inga has been forced to eat her prison gruel and thow the medicine ball around while separated from the other inmates due to "unknown security reasons." And the results are apparently not pretty:
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From the New York Times story on Foxy Brown getting chucked in jail for violating her probation: "Ms. Brown, 27, whose real name is Inga Marchand, entered the courthouse carrying a BlackBerry, and gave a big hug and kiss to a court officer. Going through the metal detectors, she greeted him as if he were a longtime friend, which he might as well be, considering her frequent court appearances." And later: "she looked a bit thicker than usual around the middle." Is this sorta-snippiness how the Gray Lady is trying to keep up with TMZ? Yeesh. [NYT]
Hot on the heels of her recent bust for assault, irritable Inga Marchand, a.k.a. one-time gangsta boo/actual rapper Foxy Brown, needs to stop doing asinine things like lying to the cops during a routine traffic stop, giving them a false name and age and otherwise compounding her own idiocy:
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Foxy Brown signs with Koch, gets charged with felony assault for hitting her neighbor in the head with a BlackBerry back in July. That $5,000 bail money had to come from somewhere, we guess. [Baller Status/WABC; via Nah Right]
- Amazingly, the "Foxy Brown may or may not have been assaulted by three women who were friends with Brown's alleged-pimp boyfriend" story just keeps getting more and more confusing. [New York Post]
- Despite a revoked driver's license, Foxy Brown will not be deterred from her mission of nearly running over newborn children and their moms. [Gatecrasher]
- With just a tinge of sadness, Snoop Dogg's managers turn the "WE'VE GONE __ DAYS WITHOUT A DRUG-RELATED INCIDENT" sign back to zero. [AP]
- A California rehab center has sued Courtney Love, claiming the singer still owes them $181,000 from a three-month stay in 2005. The bill includes $36,000 in ""spa and other incidental costs," and $110,000 for long-distance prank calls she made to Dave Grohl. [The Smoking Gun]
On Feb. 15th, Foxy "Moxie" Brown was arrested on charges of battery and obstruction of justice after an altercation in a Florida beauty-supply shop. Yesterday, she gave her account of story, and it's about 23 different degrees of ugly:
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- More acts have been announced for Al Gore's "Live Earth," including Genesis, the Police, and Kanye West. Up next: Taco, Eddie Grant, and the at-long-last reunited Talk Show.[RollingStone.com]
-A New York City judge denied Foxy Brown's request to change her assault-case plea from guilty to not guilty. Are we the last people to know that this whole brouhaha is over a tussle at a nail salon? [TMZ]
For much of the mid-to-late '90s, rappers Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown were mercilessly pitted against each other by the media, their rap talents demeaned by such side-by-side comparisons as "Which one's got the best rhyming skills?" or "Which one's hotter?" (The answer to both questions: Kelis). But considering that neither of them have been exactly been burning up the charts as of late, it was surprising to find both women making front-page news of the Post this weekend. Saturday's edition found Brown being accused of stealing two belts from a Greenwich Village boutique, and Sunday's paper noted Kim's impending plagiarism battle with "hip-hopping mad" reggae singer Tanya Stephens.
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