For some reason, I'm getting
www.blackrumors.com in my greekchat email (DMX back in jail, Treach & Pepa divorced,Jermaine Dupree given prison time...) Anyway, here's the most recent article:
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In the wake of the shooting that took place outside
the offices of New York hip-hop radio station Hot 97
on February 25, Foxy Brown wants to bury the hatchet
with rap rival Lil' Kim.
"I really don't know how it started," Brown told MTV
News on Monday (March 5) of the feud, which is
believed to have fueled the shooting incident. "But
Russell [Simmons] and I, we got together, and I said,
'Russell, I want to call a truce.'
"I want to have a sit-down with Kim," she continued.
"I don't care what it is. Let's just end it. We can
even do a collaboration. We're bigger than this. If it
has to start with me, let it start with me."
Brown claimed that Simmons (chairman of her label, Def
Jam/Def Soul) extended an olive branch to Lil' Kim's
camp, who "weren't responsive."
Calls to Lil' Kim's manager were not returned as of
press time.
The bad blood between the two MCs, according to Brown,
goes back to when she was the target of a Sean "Puffy"
Combs jab on Lil' Cease's "Play Around" that referred
to Brown's style as being similar to Lil' Kim's. Kim
perpetuated the verbal assault on the title track to
her 1999 album, The Notorious K.I.M., declaring Brown
"ain't a star, and [her] record company know that."
The latest litigious lyric — the one that has police
detectives looking into a possible motivation for the
Hot 97 shooting — is Brown's barb on
Capone-N-Noreaga's "Bang Bang," released last year,
calling Kim's album "weak" and "lame" and claiming,
"my name still reign."
On the afternoon of February 25, as Lil' Kim and her
entourage were exiting WQHT's studios after finishing
an on-air interview, they encountered Capone and his
crew, who were entering the building, according to
police. An argument erupted, which ended in more than
20 shots being fired from five different weapons and
one man suffering a gunshot wound in the back.
Detectives are still investigating the case and no
arrests have been made, according to a police
spokesperson.
In November, Noreaga explained his group's part in the
Foxy/Kim rift, saying, "Fox and Kim had beef, whether
we was gonna do 'Bang Bang' or not. Fox would have
been on someone else's record spittin' the same thing.
So what I'm sayin' is we ain't got no beef, we just
representin'. ... Let the females cat fight, and
whatever happens, happens. ... But if she needs us to
be in her corner to make sure ain't nobody gonna jump
in, we'll definitely be there."
Despite the verbal volleying, Brown said on Monday
that she never paid much mind to the rivalry with Kim.
"It didn't bother me, 'cause I was OK with myself,"
she explained. "I didn't have to ridicule anybody to
feel better about myself. ... It's not important to
me. I don't worry about what Kim does. I set the tone
for what Foxy does."
Hip Hop Feuds... Lil Kim and Foxxy Brown?
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