minks nails

I was just now learning this about minks nails and thought it may make a great post to my blog.



Back In the Days:

Back in 1997, when I was a dark skinned child running wild in East New York, Brooklyn, I remembered my sister Toni and her God Sister Tina, going hard for those yellow Versace jeans. It seemed like in a matter of one year their taste went from big gold twisty earrings to "black diamonds and pearls." What changed in a matter of one year? The emerge of two fly ass Brooklyn female rappers who hung out with all the ballers and got their money like the dudes did. Those two rappers of course were Foxy Brown and Lil Kim. And although these two rappers seemed to never get along, they were worshiped equally between many young women in the black community.

Because of Foxy and Lil Kim, chicks stepped their game up hard and stopped going hard for Levi and started to rock Gucci and Chanel. It's like in that era if you didn't mess with a guy with some money and a truck, you was uncool, un Foxy and Lil Kim like. It seemed as if young women just went ga-ga for material things that they knew they couldn't afford because they wanted to relate to these two chicks.

The one thing I remembered most about Foxy Brown in those days was that she always sounded like a female version of Jay-Z; she had the swagger and all. She always had a rough tone that made her Brooklyn attitude believable. She was always looking cool with her long, jet black, curly hair weave and her long fake nails that always seemed to be the painted the wrong color. I mean Foxy had a few hits after "Ain't No Nigga" but nothing was more popping then "Take You Home", which will still get the club popping any given Sunday.

I mean back in those days, Foxy had the ingredients to make a hit. The only sad thing about her was while her nemesis (Lil Kim) was out making a name for herself, foxy was too cocky and sat there and waited for people to recognize her greatness. While Lil Kim was getting into other things like acting (remember her role in She's All That) and messing up her face with plastic surgery, Foxy remained the same person. While Lil Kim was making headlines about having one tittee in a blanket out at the MTV music awards, Foxy Brown remained the same. She seemed to just never change and that doesn't fly in the entertainment industry. We want to see growth, we want to see something special, yet; all we received was bad hair weaves and gelled up sideburns. Nothing new since 1996.

All that was cool until the emerge of new female rappers came. Before that happened, Foxy Brown and Lil Kim had the ground to take over the game and make it theirs but they wasted time bickering of who was the queen of NY (a question that is still unanswered til this day). See y'all the Eve show could have been your show... You made your bed now lay in it.

Now Let's get to What Is Actually Wrong With Foxy Brown besides Her Hearing:

First, I apologize for every Foxy Brown fan and family member out there who reads Talk Dat Ish but we don't practice webola so you know anybody could get it.

Foxy Brown is what we call a has-been. Ever since, she came out over 10 years ago, she has had the same texture weave (wet and wavy, color 1-jet black). I have never seen foxy Brown wear a weave without them damn baby hairs gelled down and that jet black weave whether its curly or straight. Most of the times, her weaves looks a freaking mess anyway and it seems like nobody cares enough to keep it real with her so that she could upgrade herself.

Secondly, that damn lipstick. I don't care who you are, pink/fuchsia lipstick is an absolute no-no. Its time for us (regular people) to take a stance against artist who think they could do whatever they want and condemn them in the hall of shame. Foxy is always up on new trends and fashions, so she should go get herself some Mac Lip Glass or better yet, get some cheap ass Victoria Secret lip gloss then maybe you lips would look popping. The only thing that lipstick does for her is make her look like a goddamn clown. She is too dark for that lip stick and she needs to face the fact.

Another has-been quality of the infamous Foxy Brown is her clothing. Now don't get me wrong, she looked nice when she was going to court but...

God, please forgive me...

But I ran into Foxy Brown at church one day in Brooklyn (cuz, you know I try to get my praise on at least twice a month). This was all the way in January. Were standing outside, my cousin and I, and she was walking out of the church with a long, chiffon dress on with no coat (how dare she?). I was cold for her. I mean, I know she's Foxy Brown but come on, she cant wear couture like that in the winter. Then it was busted couture at that. looked like something straight off of one of her video shoots.

I felt kind of bad for her.

The Rumor that She's Crazy:

Now you know church people have all the gossip on everybody's business. So when Foxy is coming out of the church with no coat on, I noticed something. Shorty was outside really talking to herself. I thought maybe she had a ear piece on or something but she didn't. She runs to her Range Rover- all bugging out and the first thing this lady say is "that girl is crazy." And I thought she was calling her crazy because she was talking to herself because I talk to myself too sometimes ( I just don't answer back) and I am normal (I think). But the church lady reassured me that that wasn't the reason why she said that.

So I kept watching this sad little woman as she kept looking for something she seemed to never find. She kept going back and forth to the store. This was actually the first time I witnessed people not actually speaking to a celebrity. No one said anything to her. Here she is in the middle of East New York (the ghetto) where I know they recognized her and yet no one says anything to her. I know she wanted them to because she kept walking by them but still no one shouted, "I love you Foxy", or "Can I get your autograph?" and I know that made her feel kind of sad but hey, those are the breaks when you are considered to be a bitch.

Her Career is Over:

Foxy went from being one of the baddest chicks in the rap game to where she is at now... She went from making the Brooklyn anthem to beating up little Chinese ladies...

I believe that Foxy Brown career is over not because of her lack of talent but because there's no growth in her as an artist or as an individual. She still talks about name brand and drug dealers as boyfriends. Nothing has changed but the game.

Her career is also over because she lacks what Lil Kim already has- The Likable Factor.

No matter what anyone says, Foxy is known as a bitch and people don't like to work with or befriend her. Hell, she barely could keep a man. She is a bitch and it ain't no ifs, ands, or buts about that.

Any person who didn't have a hit song in like eons come into a nail salon in Brooklyn and expect to skip is a bitch and is in for a rude awakening. Them girls on Fulton would have whipped her little throwback rap ass if they couldn't get their nails done in time for Lil Ray-Ray's birthday party and here she come thinking she's special and want to go crazy when they don't want to do do them.

Who in their right mind get arrested for stuff like that? What Foxy doesn't understand is- no one owes her anything. She owes us! Were the ones who made her rich and its not our fault that she spent all of her money on cars and hair weaves. She should have been smarter and stop thinking that King Hova (Jay-Z)was going to resurrect her career because that is not going to happen.

She is literally a P.R. Nightmare:

Foxy wont be able to resurrect herself from the hip hop dead because she is what we call a P.R. Nightmare. Foxy has multiple arrest under belt due to assault and that makes her a risk to any record label. No one will want her ass to endorse any of their products and journalists would be afraid to ask her certain questions because they are afraid of her reaction. She may spit on you or you might get a Manolo hurled to your face. She even got kicked off of the morning show by nice ass Egypt because she wanted to take over the interview and rule things. Egypt asked her about her personal life with the criminal system and she went ballistic- Damn!

She still think her and Jay-Z is a team:

Now we all remember when Foxy Brown and Jay-Z used to call themselves Bonnie and Clyde. This was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before he hooked up with Beyonce'. They had numerous songs together and it was rumored that they were dating. The only proof I have that they were was from Nas' song "Ether", when he said "You weren't saying that when you had your face all in her puss" (referring to Jay-Z and Foxy Brown alleged love affair and him dissing her later down the line). Unlike most entertainment writers, I don't believe everything I hear but I do think that back in the day, Jay was hitting that because they had a lot of chemistry. I mean, maybe they were just kicking it and she took it as more than it was-whatever, they did them but what she doesn't understand is Jay-Z has a new star line up and her name is Beyonce' Knowles. A woman who is prettier and more talented than Foxy and it is time for her to get out of her nostalgia and wake the freak up, he is not going to make you the queen of the game.

The sad thing is Foxy don't even like or respect Beyonce'. And B, like me, is a Virgo, and we Virgos don't play that. Seriously, when you are dealing with us there's just one chick that run your world and thats us.

Case in Point-
Have y'all ever saw Jay-Z's movie "Fade to Black"? Please tell me you have!

Well remember when Beyonce came off of the stage and she gave Jay-Z a kiss on his cheek. Well if you look hard enough, right after Foxy walked over there and did the same thing and Jay looked like he was trying real hard to keep his cool.

(That was like saying, if she could kiss him, I could kiss him too).

Then remember when Jay Brought Foxy out and they performed "Ain't No Nigga" and Foxy went in front of him and tried to back that little ass up on him and Jay-Z embarrassed that ass by moving out of the way and he had like this confused look on his face like- what is this bitch doing?

Then when the performance was all over, she gave him a hug and he gave her one of those one-arm hugs back. He was upset as hell because he knew that made Beyonce Furious-it would have made anybody get mad.

Foxy was wrong in that situation because she knew the whole world was watching and she knew that Beyonce was in the building. I'm not against my man having friends from back in the day thats female but she has to respect me (as his woman) period. Case closed.

Foxy too busy worrying about her pride and the throwback of her and Jay-Z's friendship that she didn't keep her eyes on the prize. She should have befriended Bee and that would have made her blow up because then Jay could work with her comfortably and B would have maybe put her on a track or something and that would have been sick.

Now she is practically broke. I heard MC.Donald's is hiring but what can Foxy Brown really do if she has been in the game all of these years? Does she even have a high school diploma?

Now to the thing that make her a definitely a no-no in this game call entertainment-

Foxy Getting Her Ass Beat in Pink Houses-

Now Foxy could go around and get arrested for hitting some Chinese ladies and spitting on this one and doing whatever but she flunks when it comes down to the "space and opportunity" factor. When someone has the space and opportunity to actually hit back- thats the problem for her.

Now everyone knows that like 2 years ago, ghetto rapper Jackie-O (you know the one with all the tattoos) whipped Foxy's ass and everyone that was there said that Foxy lost. All these years, I thought Foxy could fight. She better stop talking gangster when you know you're really a wangsta (and that goes for everyone).

Now I am not lying-

Two weeks ago, one of my boys called me and said that Foxy Brown was spotted in Pink Houses (a housing project in East New York, Brooklyn. I was like stop lying. He was like yeah she's here. i was like thats crazy. Then another one of my boys called and said that she was in there and that she is pregnant- blah-blah-blah. I live in East New York and I don't even chill in Pink Houses. People from PH is cool but its gets real gully in there so what the hell is Foxy doing in there period, much less for a party.

I was thinking like, wow, this broad is a true asshole. She don't know that she is going to get got. Then I go to the store on Sunday and see the article about how Foxy got beat up and robbed by her ex-man's gal pals (as the Daily News put it). First off, I don't wish no bad on anyone but its good it happened to her. Maybe now she would stay her ass out of the projects knowing that she has some expensive things that someone might be able to take.

That also teachers her another thing, leave the hood dudes alone. I know she likes to fix guys up and make them over (like I once did) but please leave them alone. Foxy, you are still a little famous, cant you bag a baller or something? Oh no, I forgot that you cant because you are a bitch and no one with money is going to tolerate your bitch status.

She want to sit there and go to parties in the projects thinking that nothing would happen to her Gucci having ass... Please.

Oh please, they probably was setting her ass up since the day she stepped on the scene. I give Foxy props for keeping it real and all to the hood but I'm sure if she would have read her rapper-survival guide- she would have known not to come to the East (bullet-bullet) flossing especially on that side. At least now she knows how it feels to get her ass kicked for no reason and that right there should make her keep her hands to herself (seriously).

Overall, my diagnosis is that Foxy Brown is a patient who is stuck in the past. She doesn't live her life as a normal 28-year-old woman, she lives it as if she is still that 17-year-old girl rocking minks while chilling in the Tunnel with Jay-Z and them. She doesn't understand that although she will always be considered a mini rap icon, that those years are over and they are never coming back. Foxy will soon need another job and here are a few suggestions for her so that she will regain her sanity and be the strong woman that I know she can be:

1) The first sign of a person who is suffering from this disease is to admit that they have a problem. Foxy need to say out loud in front of people-Hi, my name is Inga and I am a has-been.

2) Get rid of Foxy Brown, Fox Boogie, Foxy, etc. The usage of the name takes her back to a place where she was the best thing walking and when her albums were actually selling. She need to get rid of it so that she could move on.

3) She should sell some of her items so she can not only get some money but she could not think of the "Bad Mamma Jamma" video with Dru Hill and also so she don't have anything lingering around that would make her think about that time in her life. Holding on to old items just put us back in a place where none of us want to be.

4) Foxy should seek some real counseling. I Mean for the right price, I could help her out with her issues but I'm not a real professional. This girl needs anger management, relationship help, and self esteem restoration. I recommend her to but this book called, Girl Get Your Mind Right! by an amazing new author named Tionna Smalls. Oh thats me, so let's move on.

5) The fifth and final plan for Foxy is to release a Foxy Brown Greatest Hits/Retirement album. Not the Jay-Z type of retirement either... Sh could put all of her hits, her freestyles, her features on one album. The Cd insert could have pictures of Foxy's journey through the rap game. It should be a real example of photo journalism. I think that this would be great. I also think that it will sell at least 300,000 units and that would put some kind of money in her pocket. Her label could throw her a party and she can start working as a A&R or as a producer. She can also shy totally away from music and open her own Non Profit Organization or she can also join forces with an existing popular NPO like Safe Horizon. I hope so then maybe they could stop putting up those corny ass abuse posters up in the hood. They could use Foxy as the face of the campaign. This will make Foxy look like a winner.Foxy could also go back to school and become a teacher or something. The board of ed is always hiring and they give anybody a teacher job...

In closing, Foxy, you're almost 30. Take one for the team and get your mind right! You're pretty, you're sexy, and deep down inside you're a sweet girl. I will always remember you as that bad chick my sister and her friends emulated, don't worry! But go handle that and stay your ass out of the projects!