A new track by Brooklyn rapper Foxy Brown hit the internet a couple of days ago. I’m late but I’m just like, is this woman serious? Ugh, she’s nuts (I have a personal story to corroborate that claim…but that’s another blog)!
The song, entitled Let Em Know features Lil Fame from MOP and rapper BAM. It was produced by Easy Mo Bee and Brown drops lines about Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Eve, Trina and Lil Kim (again). I wasn’t going to post this initially but I figured, maybe other femcees or aspiring femcees can take this as a lesson for what not to do. You need more people Foxy. You need more people…
At this point, who cares? Seriously. She’s been throwing shots at folks ever since she began releasing these random tracks since being released from jail and no one has responded yet. MESSAGE! Smh
It made my day to stumble upon vintage flicks of the Queen Bee.
I liked Lil’ Kim a lot when she first came out (even though I had to sneak to listen to her music back then) but now I can’t relate to her new image. She looks like Latoya Jackson with a blond wig on. I never got the excess-plastic-surgery-wannabe-Barbie-PlayBoy-Bunny obsession that a lot of Black girls have–OK, I get it but that’s another blog…a long one. I miss the Brooklyn girl that I used to know. Body dismorphic syndrome is a beast but I digress. Let’s reminisce about the good ol’ days…
Ludacris is teaming up with female heavyweights in hip-hop for his forthcoming album, Battle of the Sexes, due out March 16. Luda will collab with Lil’ Kim, Eve, Trina, Shawnna, Nicki Minaj, and more to rap back and forth about male/female relationships. Ludcris has always done his own thing so I applaud him for taking a different, edgier approach with this project. It sounds like an interesting concept. (Bangladesh, Swizz Beatz, and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League have all contributed to the project).
“There’s never really been an album with a male rapper and a female rapper together going head-to-head on different issues, mostly relationship issues,” says Ludacris.
I think this might go over well. Hopefully there are femcees on there that folks either haven’t previously heard of or who are talented and deserve more shine.
I just found out that Grace Jones will be performing at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday, and am bummed because my unemployed-self can’t afford to buy tickets willy-nilly. (Anyone wanna donate to a struggling journalist?) However,the least I can do is honor her legacy because she doesn’t get the props she deserves when it comes to her immense influence on pop-culture, especially hip-hop and soul music.
Her first name might be Grace, but she personifies fierce! Grace Jones has influenced hip-hop and many-a-diva from Rihanna to Patra to Lil’ Kim to Lady Ga Ga–from their senses of fashion to their attitudes.
