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Teenager Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand, better known as Foxy Brown, first made her impression on the rap world winning a talent competition in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. In attendance that night was the Trackmasters production team working on LL Cool J’s “Mr. Smith” who subsequently invited Brown to rap over the track “I Shot Ya”. Following further contributions to songs by Toni Braxton, Case, and Jay-Z, in 1996 the 17-year-old rapper signed with Def Jam Records, and recorded a remix of Bad Boy’s “No On Else” alongside Lil’ Kim, Dat Brat, and Total.
Later in 1996 Foxy Brown released her debut album “Ill Na Na” to strong commercial success. Featuring production from Trackmasters and contributions from Jay-Z, Backstreet, Method Man, and Kid Capri, the album went platinum and Brown became a role model for aspiring female rappers. Due to this success, Brown joined Nas, AZ, and Nature to form the supergroup The Firm and released “Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album”. The record became a smash hit, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, aided by the singles “Firm Biz” and “Phone Tap”. Following the release Brown performed alongside Snoop Dogg, The Spice Girls, and the Stone Temple Pilots for MTV’s spring break festivities in Panama City, Florida, U.S.
Brown’s sophomore album “Chyna Doll” was issued in January 1999 by Def Jam Records. The album entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1 making Brown the first female rapper to ever hit the top spot. With guest contributions from DMX, Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek, and Juvenile among others, the album spawned the hits “Hot Spot” and “I Can’t”. The rapper supported the release with a North American headlining tour of 22 cities.
The album “Broken Silence” arrived in 2001 to positive reviews and produced the singles “Oh Yeah”, “B.K. Anthem”, and “Candy”. It was six years before the rapper released another full-length album with the street release “Brooklyn Don Diva” in December 2007.
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Write your review of Foxy Brown here...As well as producing her own solo music, Foxy Brown has also collaborated with several artists, and was briefly a member of the hip hop group The Firm. Rapping over the past years has been a relatively male dominated industry before the likes of Iggy, and Nicki, but Foxy seemed to lay the way for this genre to be available to female performers.
Her live performances are always spell binding, with her incredible outfits, incredible backing dancers, and her clear articulation of her lyrics. In the past, Brown has been pulled up for using terrible language and offensive statements in her performances, but I was pleased to see that she seems to have left this behind her, and was really friendly and interacted well with her audience. She opened the show with Get Me Home, one of her older tracks, which had all of her long time fans singing along, which she seemed to really appreciate.
She played through almost the entirety of Broken Silence, which she nailed I must say! She also made reference to her appearances in films, such as Fade to Black, and played a cover of a track from the film. She seemed to be interested in pleasing her audience, which was great, and the atmosphere was relaxed and high spirited all evening.
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