Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown (born Commercial Inga the September 6th 1978, with Brooklyn, New York) is raspy American of origins afro-Trinidadian and known asiatico-Trinidadian for her career solo as well as for its many collaborations, as well as a short period passed within the musical group The Firm. It leaves three albums: Ill Na Na (1996), Chyna Fraud (1999), and Broken Silence (2001). After a separation with its recording company Def Jam in 2003, Foxy Brown signs with the Limbo label. In 2004, his/her friend of childhood and collaborator Jay-Z, allows Foxy Brown to resign at Def Jam, via his label Rock-HAVE-Cracked Records, of which it has just become the president. In 2007, the singer passes under the label Koch Records.

In 2005, at the time to record its fourth album studio Black Pinks , Foxy Brown must face a new difficulty, this medical time: she suffers from a loss of auditive sensitivity. The loss of sensitivity reaches the 100%. 20% are recovered after a first operation. The following operation enables him to recover the remainder of its hearing.

Foxy Brown regularly had contentions with justice and it has in particular was shown by two of its former manicurists of violences in their connections in 2004. In 2007, Foxy Brown is imprisoned for these facts.

1995-1996: the period Ill Na Na

Whereas it was only one teenager, Foxy Brown gained a contest of talents to Brooklyn. At this point in time she was noticed by the production line team Trackmasters, which worked on the album Mr. Smith of Cool L J, which decided to make it grate on the title I Shot Ya . The individual one became a hit and made it possible Foxy Brown to work with Total, Toni Braxton and Case, like integrating the collective The Firm created by Nas and which also includes AZ and Cormega).

Before to have even left only one album, Foxy Brown had appeared in collaboration on several individual classified platinum discs, in particular its very first contribution, I Shot Ya , of Cool L J, the Remix of No One Else , of the group Total, Ain' T No Nigga of Jay-Z, the remixe of You' Re Makin' Me High of Toni Braxton, and Touch Me, Tease Me , by Case and Mary J. Blige. Following these successes, majors overbid to sign Foxy Brown, and finally it chooses the label Def Jam at the beginning of 1996.

In 1996, Brown leaves its first album Ill Na Na . An album produced by Trackmasters , in which one finds participations of Blackstreet, Method Man, and Kid Capri. The album will rise with the seventh places the first week at the classification of the US albums. In spite of an overall positive reception, Ill Na Na is criticized hard for these believed texts, it should be said that it is only sixteen years old at the time of the recording. Album, disc of platinum, will leave two individual. Its young person and exuberant compatriot, native of Brooklyn like it, Lil' Kim, which appears on the music scene at the same time as Brown, will become, thanks to the media, its larger rival whereas they were friendly and close to the time of their youth.

1997-1998: Firm Allstars

The musical group The Firm to which Foxy Brown belongbelonged was not never an entity with whole share but rather a bracket in the career of its participants. In addition to Foxy Brown, the group counts Nas, AZ and Nature - but is nothing more than the " jouet" of its producers: Nas Escobar (like it car-fore-mentioned at the time), Steve To commission Stoute, Dr. DRE, and Trackmasters.

The Firm appears on Affirmative Action , one of individual extracts from the second album of Nas It Was Written . Foxy Brown, AZ and Cormega unite in Nas - each one a verse - and becomes immediately an enormous tube, everywhere in the world. The album of " The Firm" will be sold little in spite of the 218.000 sold albums the first week. After being entered number 1 with the Billboard 200 the album leaves the classifications rather quickly.

Foxy Brown will leave, following that, individual a " Big Bad Mama" with Dru Hill resulting from a compilation of Def Jam How to Be has Player . A minor tube which will encourage Brown to carry out a second album solo.

1999-2000: The Chyna Fraud

In 1999, Foxy Brown carries out its second album Chyna Doll which will enter the history while becoming the first album of a " rappeuse" to enter Billboard 200 directly in the first place, before even as the first individual " Hot Spot" break on the United States Chyna Doll becomes platinum disc RIAA (nearly a million sold specimens), but will not survive the hesitations of its label.

With the end of the year, Foxy Brown becomes the egery of Calvin Klein. At the end of 1999, Brown and her been engaged Kurupt put a term at their 5 years common life. During the year 2000, much of his/her friends of the industry of the disc, with the name of which Jay-Z or Nas starts to be made concern. Brown suffers from Dépression and is made look after in private clinic for addiction with the drugs and the Anti-dépresseurs. This same year, Brown appears as a cover for number of August of the magazine Essence . The article is entitled " Dignity gold Dollars". Brown speaks there about her image, which it tries to clean, appearing more equipped than ever, and which tries to separate this image of " bad girl" who sticks to him with the skin in particular after his " une" of Vibe magazine where it is photographed in silver plated bikini, the hand between the thighs.

2001-2003: Broken Silence

In 2001, Brown leaves her album Broken Silence which will be acclaimed by the medium. The first individual " BK Anthem" is bleeding and much more underground which all that it had been able well to produce front. It gives the good share to its district of childhood, Brooklyn, and with some notorious rappeurs like The Notorious B.I.G and Jay-Z. With a very urban sound and deliberately " sale" , the album gives the impression to be carried out on material amateur. The second individual one of the album, " Oh Yeah" , on which the singer jamaïcain Spragga Benz appears, mark beginnings of Foxy Brown in the Reggae and the Dancehall. Def Jam, the label of Brown, does not offer same promotion to him as its two preceding albums, in spite of unanimous criticisms to say that Broken Silence was the most personal work and more succeeded of the singer. The album will be sold badly and reached 800.000 copies nevertheless, without publicity.

In 2002, Brown receives her first nomination with the Grammy Awards in the category Meilleure Female Artist Rap for her tube " Na Na Be Like" resulting from the album Broken Silence .

In 2003, Brown remakes a small appearance on individual of DJ Kay Slay entitled " Too Much For Me". In April, Brown appears on the waves of the very popular radio of New York in the emission of Wendy Williams 'and reveals the nature of her relations with president de Def Jam of the time, Lyor Cohen and Sean P. Diddy Combs. Brown shows them both to have illegally sold her master originals. She also announces that Cohen refuses to leave the fourth album Ill Na Na 2: The Fever because she refuses to modify her contract. Brown reveals in tears that its troubles of health are the result of the incidents with Def Jam. Less than 12 midnight after the interview, Ill Na Na 2: The Fever is mysteriously available in free access and remote loading on the Net. A few months later, Brown makes the cover of the magazine of Hip-hop XXL , and reiterates her desire to leave Def Jam, thing made at the end of 2003 since she is laid off by her label.

After 2004

In 2004, Brown joins again with her friend of Jay-Z childhood, when he becomes president de Def Jam and signs it via its label Rock-HAVE-Cracked Records. During the year, Brown joint with Jay-Z and other stars of the hip-hop during the Jay-Z and Friends turn . Brown also starts to record its fourth album solo, Black Roses .

The December 5th 2005, its lawyer Joseph Tacopina explains why Foxy Brown lost any auditive capacity and that it cannot be made any more hear of it. Brown explains to the reporters the December 15th that one diagnosed a sudden deafness to him in March during the recording of his preceding album. After several surgical operations, the singer found her auditive faculties. She finished then the last recordings for its fourth album Black Roses and this one should finally leave in 2008 after multiple carryforwards. The album should leave under the independent label Koch Records.

Problems with justice

The March 6th 2000, Brown crushes her Range Rover with Brooklyn. Its wounds are surface but the police force stops it because its driving license was suspended following various fines.

In 2004, the singer is implied in a violent verbal and physical dispute with two employees of a beauty parlor with which it would have refused to pay the invoice.

In April 2005, raspy the Jacki-O claims that it and Foxy Brown had a violent dispute in a studio of recording to Miami. Jacki explains why Brown badgered it, and that the tone is quickly assembled; A brawl was followed from there to the fists. If Foxy Brown admitted the verbal incidents, she denies any physical act of violence. Brown explains that Jacki was disrespectful and exaggerated voluntarily the facts to be done a little publicity for its future projects.

After a long delay, Foxy Brown is condemned in October 2006 to 3 years a probatory sorrow following its contentions in 2004 with employees of a beauty parlor. After this judgment, Foxy Brown again had several problems with justice because of its behavior. It threw, for example, a Blackberry with the head of a person. This non-observance of its probationary period was worth with the singer to be condemned to one year of prison in August 2007. She could be released in May 2008 if its control in prison is exemplary.

Discography

Individual

Appearances/participations/original soundtracks

1995: " I Shot Ya (Remix) " ( Smith '') * 1995: " Hooked One You (Remix) " ( Silk - Hooked One You Remixes )

1996: " One For The Money (Remix) " ( Horace Brown - One For The Money Remixes )

1996: " Touch Me, Tease Me" ( Box )

1996: " Action" affirmative; and " Watch Them Niggas" ( It Was Written

1996: " You' Re Makin' Me High (Remix) " ( Secret )

1996: " Ain' T No Nigga" ( Reasonable Doubt )

1996: " Release Summons Tension" ( Release Summons Tension )

1997: " The Party Don' T Stop" ( Unlady Like )

1997: " Sunshine" ( In My Lifetime, Flight 1. )

1997: " Coil Is All We Need/All We Need Is Love (Remix) " ( Share My World )

1997: " Holy Matrimony (Letter to The Firm) " ; ( Jackie Brown (film)

1997: " Friend" ( No Way Out )

1998: " I Gotta Know" ( Cheers 2 U )

1998: " Trial Off The Century" ( Pieces Off has Man )

1998: " Bill" dollar; ( R. (album) )

1998: " Paper Chase" ( Flight 2. Hardware Knock Life )

2000: " Thong Song (Remix) " ( Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps )

2000: " What' S Your Fantasy (Remix) " ( Back For the First Time )

2000: " More" ( Wow… The Story )

2001: " Blow My Whistle" ( Rush Hour 2 )

2001: " Picture This" ( The Benzino Project )

2002: " Such Me What You Want" ( Previously Unreleased )

2002: " Dope Boyz (Remix) " ( I' m Serious )

2002: " Affirmative Action (Remix) " ( From Illmatic to Stillmatic: The Remixes EP )

2002: " Nothing (Remix) " ( God' S Favorite )

2003: " Yew It Ain' T One Thing" ( Dance With My Father )

2003: " Whatcha Gonna Do" ( Bringing Down The House Soundtrack )

2003: " Too Much For Me" ( The Streetsweeper Flight 1 )

2003: " Talkin' To Me" ( Amerie - Talkin' To Me Remixes )

2004: " Does He Coils Me" ( Keshia Sings )

2004: " Got It Locked" ( Pitch Black Law )

2004: " Pretty Girl Bullshit" ( Hurt No More and Bad Servant boys 2 )

2004: " More gold Less" ( Godfather Buried Alive )

2004: " The Gang" ( Godfather Buried Alive )

2004: " Hatian Mafia" ( Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101 )

2004: " Stop" ( Unfinished Business )

2005: " You Already Know (Remix) " ( Pleasure & Bread )

2006: " Hmm Hmm (Remix) " ( Undisputed )

External bonds

Official site of Foxy Brown
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Foxy Brown on [[IMDb]]
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