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 It's a bit stunning to consider that it's been SEVEN YEARS since Foxy Brown released her last album, 2001's "Broken Silence." Considering the amount of legal problems she had between 1997 and 2007 though, it might be a minor miracle that she ever had another album at all. No one other than those who know Inga Marchand personally or grew up with her can say what type of person she really is, but one could argue that while Trina calls herself the "Da Baddest Bitch" as a gimmick Foxy Brown actually tries to live it. Her rap sheet is ridiculous - she spits on hotel employees, smacks her neighbors with cell phones, attacks manicurists, gets into fights with police officers, and actually has an outstanding warrant to be arrested should she ever return to Jamaica again. In fact Ms. Marchand only got released from confinement in a Rikers Island Correctional facility a month before this album was released. It's no surprise that on the self-titled opening track of "Brooklyn's Don Diva" she brags about buying more lawyers - she needs a full-time legal time to follow her around and get her out of the shit that she starts...full text |
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| Rollingstone |
| Midway through her fourth album, Foxy Brown claims that her "piss is clean" — a sensible thing to boast, since she's addressing her parole officer. Recently released after eight months in prison, the New York rapper spends much of Brooklyn's Don Diva covering her pre-jail legal problems and pesky media coverage: On "We Don't Surrender," she raps, "I got a 32-shot clip aimed at Page Six." Despite the tabloid-worthy subject matter, a couple of bangers are invigorating, with Foxy spitting fiercely over a dark, stomping beat on "How We Get Down." But she also gets stuck in rote braggadocio, going on about how her tits don't sag, and the succession of synth beats and unhooky hooks don't help. Diva was cut just before Foxy went to prison; perhaps the inevitable album covering her time in the clink will prove more compelling....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| You'd think seven years -- turbulent years that involved a bout with near-total deafness and in-public temper issues that led to some time behind bars -- would allow Foxy Brown more than enough time and experiences to make Brooklyn's Don Diva anything but a reheated version of 2001's Broken Silence, but that is what it most resembles, as opposed to a bold step forward or a reclamation of her power. A couple tracks and a few stray lines aside, these verses could have been dashed off by the MC at just about any earlier point in her career -- a shame since the hypnotizing likes of "Too Real," featuring snaking and skanking production from Statik Selektah (and a verse from AZ), and "Star Cry" hint at how potent the album could've been, given the soul-searching tension between anger, sadness, and swaggering combativeness....full text |
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