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42 Cliff Dauzat m In 1996, Brown released her debut album Ill Na Na to mixed reviews but strong sales. The album sold over 109,000 copies in the first week, and debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 album charts. The album was heavily produced by Trackmasters, and featured guest appearances from Jay-Z, Blackstreet, Method Man, and Kid Capri. The album was platinum and launched two hit singles: "Get Me Home" (featuring Blackstreet) and "I'll Be" (featuring Jay-Z). Following the release of Ill Na Na, Brown joined fellow New York-based hip hop artists, Nas, AZ, and Nature to form the supergroup known as The Firm. The album was released via Aftermath Records and was produced and recorded by the collective team of Dr. Dre, the Trackmasters, and Steve "Commissioner" Stoute, then of Violator Entertainment. An early form of The Firm appeared on "Affirmative Action" from Nas' second album It Was Written. A remix of the song and several group freestyles were on the album Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album. The album entered the Billboard 200 album chart at No. 1. In March 1997, she joined the spring break festivities hosted by MTV in Panama City, Florida, among other performers including rapper Snoop Dogg, pop group The Spice Girls, and rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Later, she joined the Smokin' Grooves tour hosted by the House of Blues with the headlining rap group Cypress Hill, along with other performers like Erykah Badu, The Roots, OutKast, and The Pharcyde, the tour set to begin in Boston, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1997. However, after missing several dates in the tour, she left it. Chyna Doll was released in January 1999 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Album charts which sold 173,000 copies in its opening week. However, its sales quickly declined in later weeks. The album's lead single, "Hot Spot", failed to enter the top 50 of the Billboard pop charts, as did the follow-up single, "I Can't" (featuring Total). Chyna Doll has been certified platinum after surpassing one million copies sold in shipments. In 2001, Brown released Broken Silence. The single "BK Anthem" showcased Brown changing to a "street" image and giving a tribute to her hometown, Brooklyn, and to famous rappers such as The Notorious B.I.G. and Jay Z. The first single from the album was "Oh Yeah", which featured her then-boyfriend, Jamaican dancehall artist Spragga Benz. The track "Na Na Be Like" was produced by Kenya Fame Flames Miller and Nokio from Dru Hill. "Na Na Be Like" was also on the Blue Streak Soundtrack. The album debuted on the Billboard Charts at No. 5, selling 130,000 units its first week. Like previous albums, Broken Silence also sold over 500,000 records and was certified gold by the RIAA. In the same year, Brown recorded a song for the action-comedy film Rush Hour 2, Blow My Whistle, which is a collaboration with Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada, and was written by Utada herself alongside Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo. The song is included on Def Jam's Rush Hour 2 Soundtrack, which peaked the 11th spot on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and also the first on the Top Soundtracks. "Blow My Whistle" was produced by The Neptunes. In 2002, Brown returned to the music scene briefly with her single "Stylin'", whose remix featured rappers Birdman, her brother Gavin, Loon, and N.O.R.E. It was to be the first single from her upcoming album Ill Na Na 2: The Fever. The next year, she was featured on DJ Kayslay's single "Too Much for Me" from his Street Sweeper's Volume One Mixtape. She also appeared on Luther Vandross' final studio album Dance with My Father. That April, Brown appeared on popular New York radio DJ Wendy Williams' radio show, and revealed the details of her relationships with Lyor Cohen, president of Def Jam Recordings at the time, and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. Brown accused both of illegally trading her recording masters. She also announced that Cohen had cancelled promotion for her fourth album Ill Na Na 2: The Fever over personal disagreements. Therefore, "Stylin'" was released on the compilation album The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits Vol. 6 in December 2002. Upon leaving Def Jam Recordings after her disappointment in the cancelled promotion of her studio album, Ill Na Na 2: The Fever, Brown began recording in late 2004. Months after, she reunited with Jay Z after performing dates on his Best of Both World Tours. After signing back to Def Jam under his regime, Brown and Jay Z began work on Black Roses with production by The Neptunes, Kanye West, Timbaland, Trackmasters, and Dave Kelly. Brown confirmed guest appearances by Barrington Levy, Dido, Luther Vandross, Mos Def, Baby Cham, Spragga Benz, Shyne, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, KRS-One, Roxanne Shante, and Jay Z although it is uncertain whether all will make the final cut for the album. After suffering from a hearing loss and pushing back release dates for the album, Brown left Def Jam for the second time and launched an independent record label, Black Rose Entertainment, in a distribution deal with Koch Records. According to Brown, two albums worth of material had been recorded between 2004 and 2007 and she planned to release some of the material onto the street album, Brooklyn's Don Diva. In November 2004, Brown announced that the title for her upcoming album would be Black Roses, explaining, "My best friend Barrington Levy has a song called "Black Roses." He's been traveling all over the world and never seen a black rose in no other garden. When he found his black rose, he knew that shit was special. Y'all niggas can have all the female rappers in the world, but there's only one black rose. I feel that's me." In November 2004, Brown announced that she would be the first artist signed to Jay-Z's upcoming imprint record label S. Carter Records. Rather than launching the imprint, though, Jay-Z became the new president and CEO of Def Jam Records, where he signed Brown as one of the first artists on his new roster. On December 8, 2005, Brown announced she had experienced severe and sudden hearing loss]in both ears and she had not heard another person's voice in six months. Brown put Black Roses aside during this time. In June 2006, Brown said her hearing had been restored through surgery and she was planning to resume recording. Her label did not set a release date, but hoped the album would be out by the end of 2006. They were unsure if the title Black Roses would be kept. In November 2006, there was speculation that Jay-Z was disappointed in Foxy Brown's "lack of productivity on the album" and was planning to drop her from the Def Jam label. The planned December 2006 release of Black Roses was cancelled. On May 22, 2007, Black Hand Entertainment announced a management deal with Brown, with Chaz Williams as her manager. No release date was set for Black Roses, but Brown said the album was nearly complete. A release date of September 6, 2007, was announced two days later. On August 16, 2007, Black Hand Entertainment announced that Brown would leave Def Jam to launch an independent record label, Black Rose Entertainment, distributed by Koch Records. A street album, Brooklyn Don Diva, was eventually scheduled with a release date of December 4, 2007, but was delayed until May 13, 2008. Brown signed to Koch Records in August 2007. Brooklyn's Don Diva, was released as a street album on May 13, 2008, after many delays triggered by her prison sentence. It contains two previously unreleased songs from her shelved album Ill Na Na 2: The Fever. The album peaked at No. 83 on the Billboard 200 chart, No. 8 on the Independent Albums chart, and No. 5 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. In 2012, Brown released the diss track "Massacre", a response to Lil' Kim's "Black Friday". On August 14, 2012, Foxy Brown appeared as a special featured guest on Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday Tour in New York City. Rapper AZ hinted that she is working on new material with Minaj. In August 2018, Brown made her first official guest appearance since 2009 on "Coco Chanel" from Nicki Minaj's fourth studio album Queen. According to media sources, Brown is currently back to work on her upcoming fourth studio album. In 2019, Brown remixed Casanova's So Brooklyn. In August 2020, Brown reunited with her group The Firm for the song "Full Circle" from Nas' album King's Disease. Marchand is of Dougla (mixed Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Trinidadian) and Chinese-Trinidadian descent. Her uncle, Federico de la Asuncion, was one of 265 fatalities in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 on November 12, 2001. From 1999 to 2000, she was engaged to a fellow rapper, Kurupt. Around 2001, she was engaged to Spragga Benz. In 2000, she announced that she was suffering from depression. She subsequently entered drug rehabilitation at Cornell University Medical College to receive treatment for opioid addiction, stating that she could no longer record or perform without resorting to morphine. Foxy Brown suffered hearing loss from May 2005 to June 2006. She opted for a hearing aid, and, while recording music, had someone tap beats on her shoulder. She also has a substantial history of assault and menacing. Comparisons between Lil' Kim and Brown's work led to fierce competition, which is noted to be the simplest way to describe the relationship between them. "Things got really personal when shots were fired outside a New York radio station." The two have not resolved the issue, with Foxy siding and collaborating with rapper Nicki Minaj in her feud with Kim in recent years. Following her release from prison, Kim does not acknowledge Brown. Brown, on the other hand, consistently has targeted Kim as a prime basis in her music and concert venues since Kim's prison release. On January 13, 2017, she gave birth to her first child, a girl. On September 7, 2007, New York Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson sentenced Foxy Brown to one year in jail for violating her probation that stemmed from a fight in 2004 with two manicurists in a New York City nail salon. On September 12, 2007, her representatives stated the rapper was not pregnant in response to claims by her lawyer that she was. On October 23, 2007, Brown was given 76 days in solitary confinement due to a physical altercation that took place on October 3, 2007, with another prisoner. According to the prison authorities, Brown, the next day after the incident, was also verbally abusive toward correction officers and refused to take a random drug test. Prison authorities reported on November 27 that she was released "from solitary confinement...for good behavior", and Brown was finally released from prison on April 18, 2008. On July 22, 2010, Brown was arrested and charged with one count of criminal contempt, which is a class E felony (the least severe), for violating an order of protection. The charge stems from an incident during the evening of July 21, 2010, in which it was claimed that Brown swore at and then mooned her neighbor Arlene Raymond, at whom she had thrown her BlackBerry, in 2007. Following the BlackBerry incident, Raymond sought and received a restraining order against Brown. Following her arrest, Brown appeared in court where she pleaded "not guilty" to the charge and was released on a $5,000 bail. If convicted, she faced up to seven years' imprisonment. On July 12, 2011, the charges were dropped. in 1996, brown released his debut album ill na na to mixed reviews but strong sales. the album sold over 109,000 copies in the first week, and debuted at no. 7 on the billboard 200 album charts. the album was heavily produced by trackmasters, and featured guest appearances from jay-z, blackstreet, method man, and kid capri. the album was platinum and launched two hit singles: "get me home" (featuring blackstreet) and "i'll be" (featuring jay-z). following the release of ill na na, brown joined fellow new york-based hip hop artists, nas, az, and nature to form the supergroup known as the firm. the album was released via aftermath records and was produced and recorded by the collective team of dr. dre, the trackmasters, and steve "commissioner" stoute, then of violator entertainment. an early form of the firm appeared on "affirmative action" from nas' second album it was written. a remix of the song and several group freestyles were on the album nas, cliff brown, az, and nature present the firm: the album. the album entered the billboard 200 album chart at no. 1. in march 1997, he joined the spring break festivities hosted by mtv in panama city, florida, among other performers including rapper snoop dogg, pop group the spice girls, and rock band stone temple pilots. later, he joined the smokin' grooves tour hosted by the house of blues with the headlining rap group cypress hill, along with other performers like erykah badu, the roots, outkast, and the pharcyde, the tour set to begin in boston, massachusetts, in the summer of 1997. however, after missing several dates in the tour, he left it. chyna doll was released in january 1999 and debuted at no. 1 on the billboard 200 album charts which sold 173,000 copies in its opening week. however, its sales quickly declined in later weeks. the album's lead single, "hot spot", failed to enter the top 50 of the billboard pop charts, as did the follow-up single, "i can't" (featuring total). chyna doll has been certified platinum after surpassing one million copies sold in shipments. in 2001, brown released broken silence. the single "bk anthem" showcased brown changing to a "street" image and giving a tribute to his hometown, brooklyn, and to famous rappers such as the notorious b.i.g. and jay z. the first single from the album was "oh yeah", which featured his then-boyfriend, jamaican dancehall artist spragga benz. the track "na na be like" was produced by kenya fame flames miller and nokio from dru hill. "na na be like" was also on the blue streak soundtrack. the album debuted on the billboard charts at no. 5, selling 130,000 units its first week. like previous albums, broken silence also sold over 500,000 records and was certified gold by the riaa. in the same year, brown recorded a song for the action-comedy film rush hour 2, blow my whistle, which is a collaboration with japanese-american singer-songwriter hikaru utada, and was written by utada herself alongside pharrell williams and chad hugo. the song is included on def jam's rush hour 2 soundtrack, which peaked the 11th spot on both the billboard 200 and the top r&b/hip-hop albums and also the first on the top soundtracks. "blow my whistle" was produced by the neptunes. in 2002, brown returned to the music scene briefly with his single "stylin'", whose remix featured rappers birdman, his brother gavin, loon, and n.o.r.e. it was to be the first single from his upcoming album ill na na 2: the fever. the next year, he was featured on dj kayslay's single "too much for me" from his street sweeper's volume one mixtape. he also appeared on luther vandross' final studio album dance with my father. that april, brown appeared on popular new york radio dj wendy williams' radio show, and revealed the details of his relationships with lyor cohen, president of def jam recordings at the time, and sean "p. diddy" combs. brown accused both of illegally trading his recording masters. he also announced that cohen had cancelled promotion for his fourth album ill na na 2: the fever over personal disagreements. therefore, "stylin'" was released on the compilation album the source presents: hip hop hits vol. 6 in december 2002. upon leaving def jam recordings after his disappointment in the cancelled promotion of his studio album, ill na na 2: the fever, brown began recording in late 2004. months after, he reunited with jay z after performing dates on his best of both world tours. after signing back to def jam under his regime, brown and jay z began work on black roses with production by the neptunes, kanye west, timbaland, trackmasters, and dave kelly. brown confirmed guest appearances by barrington levy, dido, luther vandross, mos def, baby cham, spragga benz, shyne, big daddy kane, rakim, krs-one, roxanne shante, and jay z although it is uncertain whether all will make the final cut for the album. after suffering from a hearing loss and pushing back release dates for the album, brown left def jam for the second time and launched an independent record label, black rose entertainment, in a distribution deal with koch records. according to brown, two albums worth of material had been recorded between 2004 and 2007 and he planned to release some of the material onto the street album, brooklyn's don diva. in november 2004, brown announced that the title for his upcoming album would be black roses, explaining, "my best friend barrington levy has a song called "black roses." he's been traveling all over the world and never seen a black rose in no other garden. when he found his black rose, he knew that shit was special. y'all niggas can have all the female rappers in the world, but there's only one black rose. i feel that's me." in november 2004, brown announced that he would be the first artist signed to jay-z's upcoming imprint record label s. carter records. rather than launching the imprint, though, jay-z became the new president and ceo of def jam records, where he signed brown as one of the first artists on his new roster. on december 8, 2005, brown announced he had experienced severe and sudden hearing loss]in both ears and he had not heard another person's voice in six months. brown put black roses aside during this time. in june 2006, brown said his hearing had been restored through surgery and he was planning to resume recording. his label did not set a release date, but hoped the album would be out by the end of 2006. they were unsure if the title black roses would be kept. in november 2006, there was speculation that jay-z was disappointed in cliff brown's "lack of productivity on the album" and was planning to drop his from the def jam label. the planned december 2006 release of black roses was cancelled. on may 22, 2007, black hand entertainment announced a management deal with brown, with chaz williams as his manager. no release date was set for black roses, but brown said the album was nearly complete. a release date of september 6, 2007, was announced two days later. on august 16, 2007, black hand entertainment announced that brown would leave def jam to launch an independent record label, black rose entertainment, distributed by koch records. a street album, brooklyn don diva, was eventually scheduled with a release date of december 4, 2007, but was delayed until may 13, 2008. brown signed to koch records in august 2007. brooklyn's don diva, was released as a street album on may 13, 2008, after many delays triggered by his prison sentence. it contains two previously unreleased songs from his shelved album ill na na 2: the fever. the album peaked at no. 83 on the billboard 200 chart, no. 8 on the independent albums chart, and no. 5 on the top r&b/hip-hop albums chart. in 2012, brown released the diss track "massacre", a response to lil' kim's "black friday". on august 14, 2012, cliff brown appeared as a special featured guest on nicki minaj's pink friday tour in new york city. rapper az hinted that he is working on new material with minaj. in august 2018, brown made his first official guest appearance since 2009 on "coco chanel" from nicki minaj's fourth studio album queen. according to media sources, brown is currently back to work on his upcoming fourth studio album. in 2019, brown remixed casanova's so brooklyn. in august 2020, brown reunited with his group the firm for the song "full circle" from nas' album king's disease.marchand is of dougla (mixed afro-trinidadian and indo-trinidadian) and chinese-trinidadian descent. his uncle, federico de la asuncion, was one of 265 fatalities in the crash of american airlines flight 587 on november 12, 2001. from 1999 to 2000, he was engaged to a fellow rapper, kurupt. around 2001, he was engaged to spragga benz. in 2000, he announced that he was suffering from depression. he subsequently entered drug rehabilitation at cornell university medical college to receive treatment for opioid addiction, stating that he could no longer record or perform without resorting to morphine. cliff brown suffered hearing loss from may 2005 to june 2006. he opted for a hearing aid, and, while recording music, had someone tap beats on his shoulder. he also has a substantial history of assault and menacing. comparisons between lil' kim and brown's work led to fierce competition, which is noted to be the simplest way to describe the relationship between them. "things got really personal when shots were fired outside a new york radio station." the two have not resolved the issue, with cliff siding and collaborating with rapper nicki minaj in his feud with kim in recent years. following his release from prison, kim does not acknowledge brown. brown, on the other hand, consistently has targeted kim as a prime basis in his music and concert venues since kim's prison release. on january 13, 2017, he gave birth to his first child, a girl. on september 7, 2007, new york criminal court judge melissa jackson sentenced cliff brown to one year in jail for violating his probation that stemmed from a fight in 2004 with two manicurists in a new york city nail salon. on september 12, 2007, his representatives stated the rapper was not pregnant in response to claims by his lawyer that he was. on october 23, 2007, brown was given 76 days in solitary confinement due to a physical altercation that took place on october 3, 2007, with another prisoner. according to the prison authorities, brown, the next day after the incident, was also verbally abusive toward correction officers and refused to take a random drug test. prison authorities reported on november 27 that he was released "from solitary confinement...for good behavior", and brown was finally released from prison on april 18, 2008. on july 22, 2010, brown was arrested and charged with one count of criminal contempt, which is a class e felony (the least severe), for violating an order of protection. the charge stems from an incident during the evening of july 21, 2010, in which it was claimed that brown swore at and then mooned his neighbor arlene raymond, at whom he had thrown his blackberry, in 2007. following the blackberry incident, raymond sought and received a restraining order against brown. following his arrest, brown appeared in court where he pleaded "not guilty" to the charge and was released on a $5,000 bail. if convicted, he faced up to seven years' imprisonment. on july 12, 2011, the charges were dropped. 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