<![CDATA[Gawker: foxy brown]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: foxy brown]]> http://gawker.com/tag/foxybrown http://gawker.com/tag/foxybrown <![CDATA[Foxy Brown's Lawyer Speaks Out on her Non-Book]]> Last week, Simon & Schuster sued Brooklyn rapper Foxy Brown for failing to complete her memoir, Broken Silence. Now, her lawyer says that the publisher had allowed Foxy to put the project on hold after she suddenly lost her hearing, but then "decided not to go forward with [her] project." [All Hip Hop]

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<![CDATA[Ruining It for All the Other Aspiring Rapper-Writers]]> Simon & Schuster suing Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim for undelivered manuscripts on the same day? What does it mean? [NY Observer]

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<![CDATA[The Best Books Remain Unwritten]]> Female rapper Lil Kim and female rapper #2 Foxy Brown are both being sued for the same reason: being procrastinating authors. Ha, [we're-all-in-same-boat joke]! Simon & Schuster has filed suit against both of them for taking their advances ($40K and $75K, respectively) and then not writing a damn word. Ha, if only [Keith Gessen joke]! And they have no excuse for not doing it—they were both in jail! Ha, [OJ-confessional-book joke]! I'm sure you'll all grieve for the lost opportunity to read Lil Kim's prospective book, which was titled "Untitled Novel." Ha, how come these things never happen to [blogger-turned-author joke]? [NYS]

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<![CDATA[Foxy Brown Pleads Guilty to Cell-Phone Menacing]]> How does one go about "menacing a neighbor with [a] cell phone," as the AP reports of Brooklyn rapper Foxy Brown? The AP does not explain. The fight started with Foxy "blasting her car stereo" outside the building. (This scuffle is not to be confused with last year's fight with a manicurist.)

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<![CDATA[Foxy Boxed]]> Rapper, criminal, and muse of the ages Foxy Brown has been denied the early release from prison she had requested. Brown had been hoping to go to California to seek treatment for a defective ear implant. Ms. Brown was sentenced to a year in prison this past September, after violating the probation she earned by assaulting some manicurists. Spinderella remains at large. [NYT]

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<![CDATA[Joe Tacopina To Testify About Bernie Kerik's Lies]]> Gravel-voiced bulldog Joe Tacopina was a lawyer for corrupt former police commissioner Bernard Kerik—one that Kerik actually paid for services rendered. Because while the other guys were defending Kerik from pending indictments the old-fashioned "legal" way, Tacopina was, according to the U.S. Attorneys, passing on false information and obstructing justice—and that's the way you defend Bernie Kerik, dammit. (Back in April, Tacopina was praised to the heavens Page Six—and also used to represent former Page Sixer Jared Paul Stern and Foxy Brown.) Now Kerik's other lawyer may be tossed off the case for possessing non-privileged information about Tacopina's actions—and Tacopina will testify about Kerik's misdeeds. America is so cruel to its heroes.

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<![CDATA[Lindsay Lohan's Taste In Dudes Remains Consistent]]>

  • Lindsay Lohan brought her rehab buddy Riley Giles home to Long Island to meet her family over Thanksgiving, but he went out every night without her. [Page Six]
  • A saboteur put pepper spray on Miss Puerto Rico's dress and in her makeup, but she won anyway. [Us Magazine]
  • Brooke Astor's son has been indicted on charges related to the mishandling of his late mom's estate. [NYP]
  • Jailed 90s rapper Foxy Brown got out of solitary confinement early for good behavior, believe it or not. [TMZ]
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<![CDATA[The Past Is Over]]> Rod Townsend (aka our commenter Momo), used to receive telephone calls from The Past, a mysterious entity that remembered where things used to be in New York before Starbucks and Whole Foods came to town.

"Hello?"

"Oh, kneadynips, it's The Past. Can I just tell you it's all so over?"

"Over the top? Over the limit? Overdone? Overcooked?"

"It's just, like, Over. Nightlife is just getting weird. I can't even have fun at Limelight."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, to be honest, it's never really been my venue of choice. Too much 'freaky for freaky sake' and not enough 'freaky.' That whole group of club kids. They really just try too hard. I've been thinking about it ever since Angel died."

"Wait. You told me about him. Was it an overdose?"

"An overdose of Michael Alig! Angel didn't even do drugs; he just sold them. Then Michael and Freeze up and killed Angel, chopped him up and threw him in the river. But the police finally figured it all out, and now Michael's in jail. Which is probably more fun than clubs these days anyway."

"You're obviously exaggerating."

"Not really, swirlysnooch. It used to be we'd just walk in the front door. Then we had to start going in through the Twentieth Street entrance. Now there's no VIP entrance at all and we have to go in with the cattle. They make us wait in line to be patted down in the most unflirtatious way. I even saw them shake down some poor tranny's wig. She should've hid razors in that 'fro."

"Oh! Like Foxy Brown?"

"Coffy, actually. Anyway, we did the usual survey of the main floor, checked out the side and then headed our way upstairs. It was surreal. What used to be too packed was just a big empty room. Even the backroom where guys used to stick their dicks into the holes of a box that allegedly housed some random homeless drag queen? Empty."

"Well, there's always shifts in venues. One place goes out of favor and a new one rises."

"No, there's a more than a shift happening. Giuliani has this whole crackdown on fun going on while he's supposedly sticking his dick into somebody other than his wife. You know how moralistic hypocrites can be, right? But it's more than just that. New places that are opening are filled with tables and chairs and smaller dance floors. I saw my friend JonEd working the VIP door at one of the new places and she said we couldn't go in unless we bought a bottle of Absolut. For, like, $300! All these changes—it's like I'm suddenly in Atlanta. It's making me go a little crazy I think."

"Change can bring out weird feelings. And you sound, well, a little emotional. Are you that upset?"

"It's not just nightlife. It's, well, everything. I'm... I'm just afraid."

"You? But you're fearless. What could you be afraid of?"

"I call you week after week. For months now and it seems like everything I ever tell you about. Every important thing in my life is either gone or forgotten. All just things of The Past."

"That still doesn't explain what could scare you."

"Too be honest, it's you. I'm afraid of becoming you."

"Hey, I'm not that bad a thing to become! I still can... Hold on, I have another call... Hello?"

"Es salaam aleikum, giga-glans! I've been wanting to call you for years! This is The Future."


Previously: Past Over

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<![CDATA[Foxy Brown Is In Solitary Confinement]]>

  • Fighting with fellow inmates landed 90s rapper Foxy Brown a solo cell for 76 days. [NYP]
  • Halle Berry made a very mild sort of Jew joke and sensitive big-nosed Jews overreacted. [Page Six]
  • Leonardo DiCaprio broke up with his Israeli model girlfriend whose name we never bothered to learn how to spell and now she's dating that surfer who scoops everyone up on the rebound. [Page Six]
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<![CDATA[Foxy Brown: Wore H&M To Court, Showed No Nipple]]> New York Post nutcase Andrea Peyser is titillated by the sight of a humbled Foxy Brown arriving at a Brooklyn court (from prison) to plead not guilty to her third phone-related assault. Brown's drab jacket and plaid pants (H&M!!) and "matted" hair excite Peyser to a degree that few cut-down-to-size "divas" could hope to match. Also, this is maybe the single horrifying sentence written in any newspaper in America today: "She also carried no BlackBerry, no $1,500 Louis Vuitton satchel—and revealed nothing of the precious nipple we've come to know and love."

Oh God, "precious nipple"! That is like what that terrible high school theater tech kid who befriended you when you were forced to sit together in Chem would order to sound "adult" at the Ruby Tuesdays he just sneaked into with his older brother's expired ID!

Anyway, Foxy Brown is a menace who needs to be locked up forever and ever, obvs, and the world's manicurists will not be safe until public shaming has her wardrobe regression brought down to Old Navy levels.

JAIL TAKES TOLL ON DOWDY CELL-EBRITY FOXY [NYP]

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<![CDATA[BlackBerry-chucking rap queen Foxy Brown,...]]> BlackBerry-chucking rap queen Foxy Brown, who missed repeated arraignments last week, finally made it off Rikers Island to court! [TMZ]

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<![CDATA[Foxy Brown Won't Leave Rikers! And Neither Will You.]]> It is almost the weekend, praise be! And no matter what your weekend threatens to bring, remember that it's surely gonna be better than that of imprisoned BlackBerry-hurling former rap star Foxy Brown, who is so stewed that she won't even get on the bus from Rikers Island (New York's real sixth borough!) for her arraignment. She's had it up to here! So wherever you go, remember this lone woman's spirit of resistance. Yes. Whether you rot in your own personal jail of an apartment, or venture out in the big bad City to be judged by officers of the law and those that impersonate them, you are all Foxy Brown.

Foxy Brown won't get on bus for court [AP]

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<![CDATA[Foxy Brown Was Never Pregnant!]]>

  • Foxy Brown's lawyer, state Senator (yes!) John Sampson, who had told the jury that sentenced Brown to a year in jail for violating probation that Brown was three months pregnant, apparently totally lied! [NYP]
  • The Sex and the City open call audition was a freakshow, as expected. [TMZ]
  • Designer Marc Jacobs responds to allegations that his show was late because he was having drinks at the Mercer hotel: "That is bullshit! That is bullshit! I was at the fucking office until the last fitting was over. I came back to the hotel — I hadn't been here in three days! I hadn't showered in three days! I slept on the couch in my office for 20 minutes three nights in a row — anyone at my office will tell you that. I got 20 minutes sleep Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night. The first shower I had was Monday at 8 before the rehearsal of our show. I did not have lunch, I did not have drinks, I did not have tea at the Mercer." Okay!! [WWD]
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<![CDATA[Foxy Brown gets a year in jail. This news...]]> foxy-brown.jpgFoxy Brown gets a year in jail. This news likely affects your life in no way whatsoever. [TMZ]

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<![CDATA[Foxy Brown has been sentenced to a year in...]]> Foxy Brown has been sentenced to a year in prison. [TMZ]

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<![CDATA[Foxy Brown Is In Jail Awaiting Trial]]> The rapper Foxy Brown, whose career probably peaked on 1997's Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album, is in jail for violating her probation by smacking her neighbor with her BlackBerry. Her trial is set for September 5th, one day before her 28th birthday. Huh, she's a Virgo! According to astrologyzone.com, that means she's probably feeling the effects of August 28th's lunar eclipse. "Lunar eclipses bring endings, and alas, this one may be no exception." Bummer, Foxy.

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<![CDATA[Today we find out whether Foxy Brown will...]]> sampsonToday we find out whether Foxy Brown will spend two more years in jail for violating her probation in various ways. "Her attorney, New York State Sen. John Sampson, said he believes she will be acquitted in the Florida and Brooklyn attacks, and that she should not be jailed today." Hold up, time out. Foxy Brown's lawyer is a New York State Senator?? [NYP]

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<![CDATA[Foxy Brown Arrested Again, Might Be Pregnant]]> The rapper Foxy Brown, whose 1996 album Ill Na Na appears in the Case Logix of some people who went through a brief 'hip hop phase' in high school, was arrested again in New Jersey for talking on her cellphone while running a stop sign. Also, she says she's getting married in September and that she's pregnant, though she won't say to/by whom.

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<![CDATA[Foxy Brown's Latest Victim Brilliantly Articulates Our Feelings About Celebrity]]> Sometime rapper Foxy Brown, who was famous in the 90s for rapping a verse on the Toni Braxton song "You're Making Me High," has struck again, this time near her Prospect Heights childhood home. She allegedly Blackberry-whapped a drugstore employee named Arlene Raymond, with whom she has, according to law-enforcement sources, "a longstanding dispute over the volume of the stereo in Foxy's car." She split no hairs: "Foxy is an idiot. She's rude. I want her to get locked up," Raymond told the Post. And then she said something even more genius.

I've seen her on TV, but she's nobody special. She's no different than anyone else.
It's something we feel is applicable to pretty much everyone we have ever written about. Arlene Raymond is an American hero and we hope her abraded eye heals quickly. Crazy Foxy In A New Hit Rap [NYP]]]>
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<![CDATA[Pimps Up, Foxy Brown Down]]>

  • Foxy Brown found out that her boyfriend was a pimp. Then she was attacked by a hooker who pulled out chunks of her weave and stole her hearing aid. What is next for Foxy? Can it please involve 'Flavor of Love: Charm School' please please please? [NYDN]
  • Justin Theroux thinks New York girls are sluts, not that he has had any personal experience in this department. He's just sayin'. [NYM]
  • "When we asked [Mandy Moore] about the guys young Hollywood women should avoid, she said, 'I'd never name names . . . but I'd say stay away from anyone who is too insecure or self-involved.'" Then she coughed in this weird way that sounded sort of like "Kachh Kraff." [Page Six]
  • So Courtney Love is licensing Kurt's likeness to lunchbox manufacturers and such. Whatever, people, he's dead. Move on. [Page Six]
  • Jessica Simpson still doesn't know the words to Dolly Parton's fabulous socialist anthem '9 to 5.' [Gatecrasher, last item]
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