Rapper Foxy Brown: Her Rise to Fame and Why She's Now a Has-Been

Back In the Days:

Back in 1997, when I was a dark skinned child running wild in East New York, Brooklyn, I remembered my sister Toni and her God Sister Tina, going hard for those yellow Versace jeans. It seemed like in a matter of one year their taste went from big gold twisty earrings to "black diamonds and pearls." What changed in a matter of one year? The emerge of two fly ass Brooklyn female rappers who hung out with all the ballers and got their money like the dudes did. Those two rappers of course were Foxy Brown and Lil Kim. And although these two rappers seemed to never get along, they were worshiped equally between many young women in the black community.

Because of Foxy and Lil Kim, chicks stepped their game up hard and stopped going hard for Levi and started to rock Gucci and Chanel. It's like in that era if you didn't mess with a guy with some money and a truck, you was uncool, un Foxy and Lil Kim like. It seemed as if young women just went ga-ga for material things that they knew they couldn't afford because they wanted to relate to these two chicks.

The one thing I remembered most about Foxy Brown in those days was that she always sounded like a female version of Jay-Z; she had the swagger and all. She always had a rough tone that made her Brooklyn attitude believable. She was always looking cool with her long, jet black, curly hair weave and her long fake nails that always seemed to be the painted the wrong color. I mean Foxy had a few hits after "Ain't No Nigga" but nothing was more popping then "Take You Home", which will still get the club popping any given Sunday.