Foxy Brown is Free

Foxy Brown (pictured above in her “diva” mugshot) is set to be released from New York’s Rikers Island prison after serving only eight months of her one year prison sentence.

The news came from her manager Chaz Williams, who said that the rapper is due to be out of Rikers in five days.

He also added that prison life on the world’s largest penal colony was hard on Ms. Brown.

“They had her on continuous lockdown just because she is a celebrity. They were trying to break her spirit,” her manager said. He also told Billboard that Brown “did every single minute of her bid in jail, and she did it under the most severe conditions.”

She must be really tough. Contrary to what Williams said, Brown was given 76 days in solitary confinement due to a physical altercation with another prisoner.

But things are looking up for Foxy once she gets out.

Williams said that Brown is willing to take her career seriously. She already has several offers from different TV networks – which include a proposed documentary and reality show based on her life. Also, once she gets out, she will be finally releasing her much awaited album “Brooklyn’s Don Diva.” Release date for the new album is set on May13.

“She’s going to get on top of her career again. She’s ready to hit the ground running and do anything she needs to do to get her career back on point,” Williams said.

Foxy Brown (real name Inga Fung Marchand) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She is of mixed Afro-Trinidadian and Asian descent. Her 1996 debut album Ill Na Na went platinum - with two hit singles: “Get Me Home” (featuring Blackstreet) and “I’ll Be” (featuring Jay-Z). After the success of her debut album, Foxy joined Nas and two other NY rappers AZ and Nature to form the rap group known as The Firm. Their debut, “Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album” was released by Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Records. It entered the Billboard 200 album chart at number 1.

On July 26, 2002, Foxy Brown was arrested in Kingston, Jamaica for an altercation with a policewoman at Norman Manley International Airport. She ditched the country and her scheduled court appearance that was set two days after the incident. She still has a pending warrant of arrest in Jamaica.

On August 29, 2004, she allegedly attacked two manicurists in Chelsea, Manhattan over $20 worth of service that she refused to pay. She was charged for the incident March 7, 2005 and on October 25, 2006, she was sentenced to three years probation and anger management counseling.

On August 14, 2007, Foxy Brown turned herself in for a felony assault charge resulting from hitting her neighbor with a Blackberry ala Naomi Campbell. This eventually led to the jail sentence as it was grounds for violation of the probation issued for the manicurist incident.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson said on her sentencing: “I’m not going to give you any more chances. I hope you turn your life around and never again have to stand in a court of law.”

Too late for that!

She is still set to appear in court in Broward County, Florida on May 5 for battery and obstruction of justice charges filed due to another angry fit incident.

It’s not too late to change the new album’s title to “Brooklyn and Broward’s Don Diva.”

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