She was worth every bead of sweat: at a quarter to midnight, Foxy Brown took the stage in the designer's hot pink mini-dress, telling the roaring crowd, "They put me in jail for a year and my cell was full of Alexander Wang," before rapping hits like "Candy," "What's Your Heaven" and "Hot Spot."
Turns out Brown was celebrating more than her self-described "good friend" Wang's collection: it was also her birthday. "When he asked me to perform and told me it was going to be Sept. 6, I said, 'You know what? I'm going to give you that!'" she laughed after her half hour set. Don't expect to see her all over the front rows in the coming days. "I don't whore myself out for fashion." And though it was her first performance since her release from jail earlier this year, Brown didn't suffer from any stage fright.
"I'm a beast on the microphone," she declared, as a VH1 television crew filmed her for an upcoming reality show. "I was more nervous about busting my ass in these six inch Yves Saint Laurent heels."
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We caught Foxy Brown after her performance at Alexander Wang after-party at Cortlandt Alley last night, her first show in NYC since being released from Rikers Island earlier this year. Decked out in a custom fuchsia Alexander Wang dress, Foxy treated the sweaty crowd to some of the best of Il Na Na, and Wang to some stage time. "The highlight was fucking Alexander doing the fucking booty shake what your mama gave ya! That was fly," Foxy told us. “So you're right at home at Fashion Week?” we asked the Park Slope native. "It feels so good," Foxy said. "Karl said to me, and also Marc … they all said to me that they never saw a little black girl that was so interested in couture and haute couture. I would be in our house, with the brush singing and [my mom's] fur coats. And her high-heeled slippers … my mom has an Hermès Birkin bag from back in the day that I rock now and is sicker than any bag ever. Fashion is totally embedded in me."
So, what's next for Foxy? There's the VH1 reality show, the cameras for which were on hand last night. There's the book, Broken Silence. And, of course, the album, Black Roses, which drops Christmas Eve. "I don't want to talk about it too much. It's a lot different," Foxy said. "It definitely shows the evolution and the maturation of Foxy Brown. I was considered the nerd kid in school, but I always just loved the gangsta guys. So I always had the best of both worlds. [For] this album, I'm going to integrate my culture — I'm West Indian, I'm Caribbean. I'm from Trinidad, so you hear a lot of my songs have the reggae influence. So this whole album is about change. But it's not going to be a different Foxy Brown. I'm still the same chick, muthafucka."
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