Foxy Brown let it all out during an emotional interview with good friend Combat Jack where she talked candidly about her relationships with Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, and Lauryn Hill after explaining how she was a good girl that truly went back as a young teen.
Foxy was in the middle of some serious slanderous rumors recently as reports broke that she was supposedly bad mouthing Jay-Z and his wife Beyonce.
While she already publicly denied the rumors she took things a step further by explaining her relationship with the hip hop mogul from New York and how she would never betray him.
“I stood up for him and Bey because I love both of them,” she said after being asked about the Jay-Z rumors. “That took me back. I was ready to lace my Timbs up and go back to old Inga because it was so disrespectful. The slander. It was disrespectful to me and all of the people who have done things for me. Do you understand I can hear now because of Jay-Z?”
After she mentioned her hearing she began to have an emotional break down which is understandable for anyone who has any knowledge of her heart breaking story.
She then went on to address the lack of true journalism that went into creating the shameful story and how she feels as if the journalism field is deteriorating.
“People believed something that wasn’t even a story, it was never said,” the 34-year-old rapper explained. “It’s not about immortalizing Jay, it’s about me having a reputation. I’m always coy about my personal life. There was no story, no audio, no interview….just someone maybe in Milwaukee somewhere just made up some story.”
Later she mentioned that she believes she came from “a time of real journalism, and now this new day in age someone can just sit behind a computer and say whatever.”
“Even the tone of the article was so ill-written,” she said. “The words and grammar used, it’s not even me.”
In the midst of clearing up the rumors of her bad mouthing HOV she also took the time to admire him for the way he conquered his own struggles and for the way he conducts himself now.
“Jay doesn’t allow ANYONE around him who causes discord,” the “Candy” rapper said.
“That’s why he is where he is now. When I read his book Decoded, I said, if there’s any young black dude out here who doesn’t look up to this dude, something’s wrong. He’s a street dude and he took the shots. And he’s leading by example.”
She even opened up about how the “Hard Knock” rapper was there for her when she lost her hearing and told her to toughen up when she needed it the most.
In the interview she explained that she had to attend her aunt’s funeral and her family didn’t know that she couldn’t hear. She was supposed to give a eulogy at the funeral but at first she claimed she was too overwhelmed and she walked out of the funeral.
Before she knew it, however, Jay-Z was by her side not with words of comfort but with words of wisdom.
“He said I need to man up RIGHT NOW and go back into the funeral,” she said. “I had to soldier up. I even had to read the lips of my family – everyone was talking to me at this funeral and I couldn’t hear them and they didn’t know it.”
As for her relationship with the hip hop Barbie, Nicki Minaj, Foxy admitted that she just wants her to know she doesn’t have to sell herself short in the industry.
“She and I had a conversation because I see so much of me in her,” she continued. “I said, ‘I took the shots….I kicked the doors down and opened them back up…I did the jail time…and I’ve made a ton of mistakes.’ I sit back and laugh at all these girls calling themselves a ‘bad girl.’”
She clarified that she wasn’t taking “any shots” at Rihanna who commonly refers to herself as Bad Gal RiRi, but she believes many females in the industry today feel the need to portray themselves as something they’re not.
“I was a REAL bad girl,” the “Hot Spot” rapper explained. “I took the shots. I was sassy and wouldn’t take any sh*t from anyone. It wasn’t concocted and it wasn’t fake. So I tell Nicki she doesn’t have to do that. Lil Kim and I came in and changed the landscape. There have been many girls after that who have tried to do the same thing. But they’re coming out with a group of guys and just putting on a bikini. So I tell Nicki she doesn’t have to do all that, she’s amazing and talented. She can do it herself.”
While she was busy giving Nicki Minaj advice, she was somewhat looking up to Lauryn Hill who came into the hip hop industry as one of the first dark skinned women.
“Lauryn [Hill] came in first as the dark skin chick on the scene,” she said. “And the dark skin she represented was more natural and beautiful. Light skin, long hair…cool. No disrespect to light skin women. But when you see a bad, dark skin chocolate chick, it’s like Wow. I absolutely was not always comfortable in my skin. Lauryn and I used to talk about that all the time. I had the worst insecurity.”
She also admitted that Hill had a lot to do with her staying true to her style of music.
“She’s one of the ones besides Jay that said, ‘I don’t want you to change that dancehall hip-hop,” Foxy said. “Please don’t ever change that. I need that, I need that, I need that.’ I told her, ‘I need you. We’re the two dark skin [stars]. We’re the ones that kicked the door down.”
She was shocked to hear that Lauryn would indeed be doing jail time for tax evasion and will have to turn herself in soon for a three month sentence. While she said there is no way to prepare for something like that she did promise to reach out to the former Fugees member before her sentence begins.
