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Foxy Brown - Brooklyn’s Don Diva
There’s nothing new about a female rapper dropping an album from prison. Lil’ Kim released one while she was sentenced for lying to a jury about a shooting (one that ironically involved Brown’s entourage). Brown, who shares Kim’s fixation on sex and the mafia, is now partially deaf and behind bars for parole violation. The Brooklynite’s latest is a tawdry affair, with tracks like “We Don’t Surrender” bitterly professing her supremacy while lamely insisting that she’s regained her hearing, if not her freedom.
Dec. 11
