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Foxy’s Black Hand Still Pulling Strings
Thursday, November 15, 2007
By: Michael Ivey
 Incarcerated rapper Foxy Brown, AKA Inga Marchand, may soon join former rival Lil Kim and Shine in the annals of artists who have released LPs while trapped in prison. According to Koch records, it will drop February 5 ‘Brooklyn’s Don Diva,’ the Black Hand Entertainment rapper’s fourth solo set. Foxy’s lead single, “Lights Go Out,” is reportedly enjoying multiple spins across the urban radio landscape. The former Firm member is the only female rapper to debut at number one on the Billboard Top 200 (‘Chyna Doll,’ 1999).
Incidentally, the gritty street past of Foxy’s manager Chaz William is explored on an installment of BET’s American Gangster documentary series, which airs November
21.
“I needed to connect with a person who understood my struggle completely from where I came to where I traveled today,” says Foxy of her May 2007 union with Black Hand
Entertainment.
She in August left Def Jam Recordings, her industry home for thirteen years, producing three albums that tally a reported three million records sold, to establish her own Black Rose Entertainment imprint through popular indie distributor Koch records.
Foxy splashed onto the hip hop radar in the mid-nineties when a talent show victory in Brooklyn landed the teenager on LL Cool J’s “I Shot Ya,” (‘Mr. Smith,’ 1995). Appearances the follwing year on The Nutty Professor soundtrack songs “Touch Me, Tease Me,” by Case, Jay-Z’s career launching “Ain’t No Nigga,” as well as songs by Toni Braxton and Nas, planted Foxy smack in the public eye.
A string of encounters with law enforcement, starting in 1997, include a 2006 assault conviction that earned Foxy three years probation; the rapper in August violated the terms of her sentence by allegedly assaulting a neighbor with a Blackberry cell phone device during an argument. New York Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson sentenced Foxy to one year in jail at Rikers Island. In October Foxy was condemed to seventy six days solitary confinement because of a physical incident with another Rikers Island inmate.
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