I knew both of them, when they attended Brooklyn College Academy. This was an alternative H.S. that was situated within Brooklyn College, which I attended. They were both good friends and were very smart girls. They both however, never liked going to class and I would see both of them hanging out on top of the Quad,(an outdoor entrance to one of the buildings) rapping along with their male counterparts. If I had to pick which one was better, I would give it to Kim. She had the rawness, the grit. Foxxy had the a certain flow to her style but when she rapped, you had a hard time believing what she rapped about....I don't know how to explain it....There was just something missing in Foxxy's style.

alphastreet said:

Ill Na Na was the shiz. Jay-Z reminded me a lot of Prince by ghosting songs for a female.

SCNDLS said:

Yeah he was writing a lot of shit in the background but hell BIG was doing the same thing around that time for Kim, lol.

Timmy84 said:

Yeah, they both wrote most, if not all, of the girls' albums. But Foxy's was way better IMO. I skip most of the songs on Kim's album but Foxy's is good all the way thru to me.

SCNDLS said:

Fox did have better songs.

Mary BLAHHHJE be my witness

[see Mara's post below]
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I had the tape of this single and you know what was the b-side?

The remix of "Love Is All We Need" with, GUESS WHO...

FOXY BROWN!


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i love this song. i remember wearing the share my world album out, and it still gets play often on my ipod.

for old times sake, I played a lot of foxy and jay z from the late 90's, I had forgotten just how much I loved Jigga back in the late 90's, now I just laugh at his bum face next to Beyonce, though I also liked stuff off Blueprint and the work he did with Linkin Park and Fall Out Boy.

DIPPIN ON YO NINJA HONDA WITH TANISHA AND RHONDA
WHO GOT MORE BODY THAN JANE FONDA
PHYSICAL FITNESS!!



Ahh, this song reminds me of my best friend and the VH1 Soul Channel in our college apartment.

Timmy84 said:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...XGIumqjWMU



I love this album too, brings back memories for me also. Didn't really listened to Ms. Blige until "Share My World" album was released.

Man i used to love this song but was somewhat disappointed with 'share my world' after the excellent 'what's the 411?" and "my life"

I was huge fans of Kim's and Foxy's debuts but would say 'il na na' was the slightly better record.

Mara said:

COLLEGE apartment, u were still burnin "I Can Love You" years later?
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This might be my favorite Mary song. This brings back memories for me too. It was one of the last songs I heard before going to Boot Camp for the Marines. They had it on MTV at the place where I was being sworn in and this video came on and I loved it from the start. It stayed in my head the whole 3 months I was in Boot Camp. I still love it to this day. The groove is crazy, Mary's voice was kickass and Lil Kim's flow was the bomb. A great song that I never get tired of.

Timmy84 said:

James Brown has a temporary grave site

Timmy84 said:

(in a good way)

What are are we gonna do wit you? Please, tell me!

Liked this in 97, but it hasnt aged well for me. And man were they cursin'! I guess I never heard the non radio cut. I'm getting old