Archive for June 27th, 2007

27
Jun
07

Foxy Brown gets the Ill Na Na

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According to the New York Post, hip-hop diva Foxy Brown arrived at the Department of Probation shortly after 2 p.m., nearly four hours after her scheduled appointment.

The raunchy rapper was a no-show Friday, prompting a probation official to tack a failure-to-report notice on the door of her brownstone in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Brown spun on her stilettos and got back in her car when she spotted a Post photographer outside the probation office.

Brown, whose 1996 debut album was “Ill Na Na,” later emerged, surrounded by bodyguards who escorted her through an employee entrance.

After a few words with a security officer, she walked around a metal detector and on to her meeting with a probation officer.

After her two-hour session, Brown left through a side door not used by the public. Probation officials gave no reason for the special treatment.

Her lawyer, John Sampson, declined to comment. Brown’s new manager, Black Hand Entertainment honcho Chaz Williams, declined to talk as well.

Neither Brown nor her representatives gave any reason why she missed her Friday probation appointment, which stems from charges that she beat up two Chelsea manicurists in a salon in 2004.

27
Jun
07

N.O.R.E. Returns With Independent Album and DVD

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N.O.R.E., of Capone-N-Noreaga fame, will return to hip-hop with, Noreality, his first album since 2004’s reggaeton project, Y La Familia…Ya Tu Sabe. The LP will be released this September through N.O.R.E.’s Thug Out Militainment imprint and indy label, Babygrande Records. “Noreaga is a legend and a pioneer,” says Chuck Wilson, Babygrande Records CEO. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with him and even more thrilled that N.O.R.E. is back on that street shit we all love.” Noreality will feature production by Swizz Beatz and guest appearances by Jadakiss, Three 6 Mafia, Kanye West, Pharrell, Prodigy, Bun B, Tru Life, David Banner, Capone and Kurupt. The album will also be packaged with a DVD featuring N.O.R.E.’s reality show that chronicles his everyday life. “I just want to give the fans that something extra this time,” says N.O.R.E.