I'll be the first to admit. When I first saw STL, I thought she was wack. It's partly because I found her talking over a beat to be uninspired and mostly because the beat was that eurotrash dance music that has ensured the likes of Flo-Rida still have careers. The STL song was called Lookie Lookie. Uh-huh. Then Kenyan-born Norwegian singer-songwriter released a rap song called Bad As I Wanna Be and I couldn't help but hear traces of Foxy Brown on it. Plus the highly old American rap styling of the video gave it away. Yes, I know all the cool kids were wearing Chicago Bulls jerseys last season but this video just smacks of hearkening back to a time long gone. Bad As I Wanna Be is released under STL's birthname, Stella Mwangi. I wonder why. Peep the video:
"The streets talkin, got the hood goin crazy/Niggas heard I fucked with Ross and had the nigga baby/They said I fucked with Nas and now they say it's AZ/But on the low the real nigga was Jay-Z"
Really? We would've never called it. Come on, Fox! You see, theblagg fux with Foxy Brown but this track right (peep the video above) here wreaks of heaux behaviour. We know, we know, it's Inga's prerogative to get on a track and - littered in between the usual and expected disses directed at Lil' Kim and any/every other girl who raps - run down the list of her coital conquests. But the run-down is not all that interesting, on the real, all three of the people who didn't know Fox smashed the homie probably aren't ever going to hear this leaked track.
The Ill Nana did take to her twitter last Thursday to defend her verse on Let Em Know, explaining that this joint was never even supposed to reach anyone's ears. She went on to say, "EZ Mo Bee was specifically told to delete this song... so the track should have never been released." Uh-huh.
What does it matter that Mr Knowles was the "real nigga"? For real, what does that do for Foxy? Spragga Benz must be somewhere face deep in a coma-inducing blunt. Chances are Jay-Z will ignore this line like it was a Beanie Sigel cry for help. Or like Kim has been doing for time now. Then what has Foxy proved? Is this merely a matter of a woman scorned...?
Remember, in one of the 08 issues of XXL Inga had this to say: "I would never denounce him [Jay-Z] in public. That’s just how I feel. But I’ve been incarcerated for eight months, and Jay’s been everywhere, and he hasn’t mentioned one thing about, ‘Tell her I love her. Tell her to be strong.’ That broke my heart more than anything. When they sent me to jail, I just knew he would be there - everyone came. But he never showed up…"
Oh look, here he comes now with a bouquet of black roses made of hearing aids. Made you look.
The point is, it's difficult for theblagg to show Foxy love for what seems like sour grapes. It's difficult to throw support behind someone who gets more attention because they "admit" to sleeping with someone the whole world already knew she let hit that. It's difficult to see yet another black woman fall on her sword over a broken heart instead of rising phoenix-like and soaring on her talent. But, to paraphrase Mrs Younger, when someone is down is when you are meant to love them more than ever. So theblagg loves you Foxy. If don't nobody else - least of all Jigga - love you.
*Mrs Younger is a character in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun.
PS: The thoughts expressed above are solely those of The Ordinary Girl who stans hard for girls who rap and reps to the death for black girls in general.
Women who are a part of pop culture in America have been significantly more sexified than their male counterparts with regard to their images for aeons. And while some get it right, many miss the mark. By a great margin. But it never lasts. In their prime, some of these women are considered sex kittens and use this as a weapon to stick up one track minded men with money in their wallets. However, one woman has not only aged gracefully, she has managed to make her nudity akin to revered art.
And it's not Lil Kim. theblagg recently found out that the reason Lil Kim wanted to go under the knife was because it would mean she gets to "have more fun" at her photoshoots. So the Louis stamps weren't exactly circus and candy floss to a kid huh?
And this clown steez is not working either!
It's not Foxy Brown either.
Long before Naomi was abusing the help, Foxy was the dark skinned girl who had the boys swooning. Of course she soon took to knocking out manicurists and she never quite got over Jay-Z and downhill went the career.
Yep. The real Foxy Brown, Coffy, Pamela-with-the-Real-Boobies or whatever you choose to call her is the woman who has managed to take it all in her stride. She (or rather the masterminds behind Blaxploitation) used sex as a weapon and shot everyone down with the way she has aged well.
Lil Kim, Foxy Brown and anyone else who is not smart about their image needs to take notes. No shade. But an old Pam Grier makes the young pop starlets wanna pull out their yakis.
