Foxy Brown: Deaf?

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That's what the AP says!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

NEW YORK -- Rapper Foxy Brown is almost totally deaf, her lawyer said Monday.

Attorney Joseph Tacopina disclosed Brown's hearing problem after a question about why they exchanged notes while waiting in Manhattan Criminal Court for her case to be called on an unresolved 2004 assault charge.

"She's pretty much totally deaf now," Tacopina said. "She can't hear me. We have to write things back and forth. Anything I have to communicate with her now has to be written."

Brown, 25, revealed during a court appearance in September that she would soon undergo surgery to try to correct her hearing. Obviously straining to hear questions, she refused to discuss the possible cause of the problem.

Tacopina said Monday the prognosis from that surgical procedure is still undetermined, but "hopefully [the condition] is reversible. She has to undergo another surgery."

Meanwhile, Judge Melissa Jackson adjourned Brown's case until Dec. 23 when, Tacopina said, he expects it will be resolved.

Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, is charged with misdemeanor assault, attempted assault and harassment.

Brown has rejected at least two misdemeanor plea deals that would have let her avoid any jail time for allegedly assaulting two nail salon workers on Aug. 29, 2004, in a fight over payment for a manicure at Bloomie Nails in Manhattan's Chelsea district.

Prosecutors alleged that Brown, with a cell phone clutched in her fist, attacked and kicked one worker and hit a second worker in the face.

"I'm innocent," Brown has said. "I feel like I'm being railroaded."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

older thread

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

The nail technicians at Bloomie Nails are perfectionists. Even in a rush-hour salon teeming with clients, your technician will insist on re-doing your freshly-polished manicure if there's even the merest hint of a smudge. Other services include traditional paraffin manicures, spa pedicures (in comfy massaging chairs), French tips, nail extensions and fiberglass tips. Skincare offerings include European facials, eye contour treatments, and seaweed facials; relaxing foot and chair massages are also available.

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

xpost: That's uncanny!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand
?!?!?!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

yo doggs that what i bin sayin fur yrrzzz ..fizzoxxiy brizzniokleeschniott is totally deaffffffffffffff

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

one of the worst rappers ever
its offensive that she keeps getting new deals

― [email protected], Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

And totally stupid!

― Fresh Prince of Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

great body though

― [email protected], Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

could be the ear fungus

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I'm not a fan of hers, but I have to say, I wouldn't wish this on anyone, least of all someone with a career in music. Poor girl.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Alex in NYC in only person on the whole thread talking sense shocker!

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's not like it's a very long thread.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

nevermind, nothing on this thread is as tasteless as E!'s headline: "Foxy Brown's Deaf Jam"
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17910,00.html

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

also dude what's surprising about her name being Inga? her parents are from Trinidad and she's been putting Caribbean flavors in her records for a long time.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Is Inga a popular Caribbean name? It sounds way more German-leiderhosen to me, which is what would be funny about it.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

This is very sad.
Her song with Keisha Chante is very good. Although her rapping did sound odd to me...

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I have been waiting so long for the next Foxy Brown album! I loved the last one, and now there may not be another one... :-(

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

She could get cochlear implants, it's pretty amazing what those can do in this situation.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

I think an album of somebody rapping in that trombone/foghorn deaf-person voice would be great.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

COCK IMPLANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????>>WTF HOW CAN U MAKE SEX HUMOR AT A OTEOSASTER TIME LIKE THIS

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Tim, if you haven't already, get the recent single w/ Sizzla "Come Fly With Me" so that you can vote for it in P&J. She's great at sounding effortlessly sexy and mysterious; Sizzla comes in with mondo dancehall chops and isn't half as interesting as Foxy's own idiosyncratic dancehall float.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

http://vikrecordings.com/Keshia/multimedia.html

please listen to "Does He Love Me"

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

http://vikrecordings.com/keshia/multimedia.html

my bad.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

i'm a captionist, and i was just reading an article about foxy at work today.
it's horrible.

― reo, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

im very sorry she's deaf but she is one of the worst female rappers ever to make a record

― okokok, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

too bad. lil' kim could've used the humility lesson more

― Mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah those women better learn their place.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

This thread is fucking weird.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

bunnybrains rocks. foxy sucks. i think dr suess wrote that

― Robin Samples (Robin Samples), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

hold on, maybe im really out of the loop here or something, but do people really think foxy was a good rapper? ill grant you she made a few alright singles, but for the most part, she was horrrible i always thought. lil kim was much better in the beginning (on her first album and the junior mafia album anyway)

― okok, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Yes, there are people here who really think Foxy is a good rapper.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

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