December 6, 2005

BY SAMUEL MAULL

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."

AP
http://www.suntimes.com/o...oxy06.html

dreamfactory313 said:

You make the call.. is it:

A) completely deaf?

B) almost totally deaf?

C) pretty much totally deaf?
[Edited 12/6/05 8:39am]

Just tone deaf. That's why she raps.

mrwigglesdaw1rm said:

I noticed the samething but no matter how you want to word it, I guess the bottom line is that she can't hear.

I know this may sound horrible but do you think this is some kind of punishment for her behavior towards others? I do hope she gets well even though i'm not a fan. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

the saddest was the article in people magazine where jay z said that the record she turned in sounded bad because all the levels were too high.

poor Inga. she's the best living female MC. (sorry Kim...but you're more of an icon and pop star than great rapper...much love tho).

I mighta miss it but how did she become almost deaf? That's pretty said and fucked up. She's like the best female rapper.

Rinluv said:

paging boriquateddy..

CinisterCee said:

Who the hell is that?

Rinluv said:

an orger.

Anytime I see a story on her that mentions her birth name, I wonder why in the hell she never used that name? Inga Marchand is a lot sexier and more original than Foxy Brown.

I wonder what happened to Foxy. The last time she released a c.d was in 2001 if Im no mistaken. Thats messed up .

RipHer2Shreds said:

'cuz that's not hiphop.

-Colin Welker

CinisterCee said:

Its so sad when I hear that she is really going death and stuff. She's the best of the best female rappers.

alacran83 said:

I love Foxy. I feel awful for her.

Rinluv said:

yours truley....best female rapper???? hardly...LOL.

GangstaFam said:

nowanddays...yes..these days...

Rinluv said:

I read an article by her in Rolling Stone or newsweek, and she talked of feeling that her hearing was going somewhat, and then she woke up one morning and could hear very, very little.....it said what it was called, I can't remember.

CinisterCee said:

LMAO!!!!

FUCKED up, yo...

CinisterCee said:

Fair enough!

Completely deaf and sorta...def?

RipHer2Shreds said:

Aaaiight!

RipHer2Shreds said:

DORK!!! I love you!

CinisterCee said:

And I just ordered your CD

she sounded like shit anyway

boriquateddy said:

I said like the best female rapper. Who do you consider to be the best female rapper?

RipHer2Shreds said:

Thanks

Rinluv said:

well whom I consider the best female rapper(s) you probably wont see them on BET,MTV,or hear them on the radio...for one they are not ghostwritten image driven puppets...

but at the top of my list is

Jean Grae

Medusa

Bahamadia

Heather B.

Apani B.Fly emcee

The Lady of Rage

Rah-Digga (she is the exception she got a little air play but she also is a FIERCE EMCEE)

Invincible

Pri the Honey Dark

Helixx C.Armageddon

Heroine

Mother Superia

Neb-Luv


just to name a few....don't get me wrong Fox B. had some nice joints...and I loved Broken silence but I would hardly call her the best,