Not wanting to give up, she was turned down by Sean “Puffy” Combs, who at the time was a rising producer on the scene, before landing a slot on LL Cool J’s call to lyrical arms. Signed to Capitol Records for a brief stint going by the name Big Shorty, she soon thereafter changed her name to AKA and was eventually dropped from the label. Before that though she was noticed at the age of 14. Park Slope, Brooklyn-born Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand kicked her rap career off on a world stage on LL Cool J‘s 1995 combative posse cut ‘I Shot Ya (Remix)’. She is the true personification of a Hip Hop diva. Lyrically deadly with a flow as cold as the winter streets of New York she was raised on, Foxy will go down as one of the most honest, controversial and sexually explicit rappers to have ever laid her vocals on wax. A conversation discussing who the most talented female MCs in Hip Hop have been is never a true conversation without the mention of Foxy Brown.
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