Foxy Brown Racks Up Over $4K In Traffic Tickets
Brooklyn rapper Foxy Brown shouldn't be driving in New York at all, but the unlicensed rapper has tallied up some 16 traffic violations over the past three years.
According to New York's Daily News, DMV officials say Fox Boogie (real name is Inga Marchand) owes New York State $4,780 in fines and surcharges, having drawn citations for running red lights, crossing lanes of traffic without a signal and operating without a license, inspection or insurance.
Officials at that Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) say Foxy has only a learner's permit in New York after her right to get a license was revoked for failing to answer traffic tickets.
"She has to answer all these different summonses before she's allowed to drive," DMV spokesman Ken Brown told the Daily News.
The New Jersey license that Foxy received in 2003 has been suspended since March '06 for failing to appear on a summons, New Jersey DMV officials said. Since that suspension, the rap bombshell has received three moving violations. Foxy was also charged with driving without a license in 2000 when she drove her Range Rover into a fence near Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn.
As previously reported, Brown is currently on three year's probation for a fight she had at the Chelsea Bloomie's nail salon in August of '04. More recently she received two misdemeanor charges for putting her hands on a beauty store owner in Florida last month.
Scott Storch Responds To Timbaland's Jabs
However, the multiplatinum producer — who has composed tracks for 50 Cent ("Candy Shop"), Fat Joe's Terror Squad ("Lean Back") and Beyoncé ("Naughty Girl") — does have a problem being called just a piano man, particularly by Timbaland...
So Storch lashed out against his onetime ally with "Built Like That," a dis track in response to what he felt were unwarranted barbs from Timbaland on the single "Give It to Me," featuring Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado. In the lyrics, Storch raps (referring to Timbaland protégé Nate "Danja" Hills):
"Your boy Danja got to hate you with a passion, man/ He makes the hits while you taking all the credit, damn!/ I know the feeling, I'm with ya/ Won't you tell them how I made that sh--, 'Cry Me A River' ..."
On "Give It to Me," Timbaland spits: "I'm a real producer/ You just a piano man." The jab was allegedly in reference to a past dispute the two producers had over credits on the Timberlake hit "Cry Me a River." Representatives for Timbaland had not responded to MTV News' requests for comment at press time.
"I just felt like enough was enough," Storch told MTV News regarding the dispute. "I heard the song playing, and I knew it was about me. People were calling me saying, 'This dude is taking shots at you,' then interviews popped up. So enough was enough. I needed to defend myself like a man is supposed to do. I'm not gonna take it to the streets or hurt somebody or do any bullsh-- like that. But I just had to speak up. I'm not a rapper, but I wasn't about to have somebody else fight my battle for me. So I said, 'Lemme put this down.' I been making rap records long enough. I just got in the booth and spit what was on my mind."
And Storch had plenty to say. Storch alleges on "Built Like That" that Timbaland has been taking credit for Danja's work and that Storch was the true producer of "Cry Me a River."
"It's just not fair," Storch said. "I guess people don't know what's going on behind the scenes."
Storch said he thinks Timbaland composed his dis because he heard that Storch had made disparaging comments about the fellow producer in the studio one night. "That's not a good enough reason to put somebody's name out there on wax," Storch said.
But the two producers have been at odds in the past over a few incidents Storch revealed.
First there was "Cry Me a River," which won a Grammy in 2004. Storch claims Timbaland approached him to collaborate "50/50" on two tracks for Timberlake's debut album. Storch said he composed the bridge and melody and Timbaland programmed the kick and snares for "Cry Me a River." But once the project was released commercially, Storch was surprised to learn Timbaland was listed as producer while Storch was credited with playing the keys.
Had the song credited both of them with producing the track, Storch said it would have been more "respectable and real. That's how it was supposed to go down."
Storch also said he produced the track for an And1 commercial starring Kevin Garnett and Styles P, which Storch claims Timbaland once again took credit for. "Nobody even told me [they were using my track]. I heard the sh-- on TV for the first time," Storch said.
"I've done nothing but good things for this dude," he continued. "You never hear me talking sh-- about him. Matter of fact, I did an interview before all this went down just recently — I think the interview is yet to come out — where I was biggin' him up, giving him props.
"I'm not taking away the fact that Timbaland has had a lot of hits and done some fly sh-- in his career," said Storch, who's set to work soon with Mariah Carey, T.I., Yung Joc, Chris Brown and Kelly Rowland. "Just keep my name out your mouth, and I'll do the same."
Columbia Pictures Trys To Halt Mistah F.A.B.'s 'Ghost Ride It' Video
Bay Area rapper Mistah F.A.B. cannot escape the scrutiny he's continued to receive for his first national single, "Ghost Ride It."
After facing possible banning on MTV for his ghost riding 101-type music video and receiving backlash from national new networks, due to the influence the ghost riding phenomenon has had on middle-America, the rapper has just hit yet another wall.
Columbia Pictures, the studio who owns the rights to the "Ghostbusters" movie franchise, threatened legal action because the video showcases the "Ghostbuster's" car and logo, as well as the theme song from the film incorporated into the single's production.
Columbia has demanded the video be pulled from all media outlets including television and the Internet.
Mistah F.A.B.'s introduction to controversy began this past December when the media linked F.A.B.'s video to two tragic deaths connected to the Bay Area movement
The video for F.A.B.'s regional break out single, "Ghost Ride It," was already shot and MTV seriously considered banning the video due to pressure from the media. After 52 edits, the video found itself on MTV2's "Unleashed," MTV Jams "Jam Of The Week," MTVU and finally made its way onto MTV's "Sucker Free Countdown."
"I'm getting flack for it," Mistah F.A.B. told BallerStatus.com in a recent interview. "People are saying what they wanna say, but it is what it is. For my video, they made me edit hella stuff. I had to edit the video like crazy. People always gonna stop something. When you infiltrate pop culture and cross over to other areas and other demographics, they like, 'Woah'.
It's a cultural shock right now. If you not a part of it, you're trying to stop it. That's what you call a movement, and I'm just happy to be at the forefront of it. People just gotta be responsible for what they doing and how they do it," the rapper continued.
The unedited version had 600,000 views on YouTube just weeks before Columbia Pictures sent F.A.B. a cease and desist letter.
"Publicity in the music industry, good or bad, is great. My momma always say, 'When they stop talking about you is when you get worried,'" F.A.B. confessed.
Mistah F.A.B. is currently readying an independent release from Favea Afta/Thizz/SMC Recordings called Da Baydestrian, which is slated for release May 15. The indie release will serve as a prequel to Da Yellow Bus Rydah, the rapper's major label debut with Atlantic Records. It is slated for later this year.
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Man Shot At Pretty Ricky Concert Overseas
A British student who was acting as a member of security staff was shot in the stomach during a Pretty Ricky concert.
According to The Sun, the unidentified 21-year-old man was shot on Saturday ( March 10) after several fights broke out when someone threw a tear gas canister in the crowd during the group's performance. The LoughboroughUniversity student is now recovering in hospital. His injuries are not life threatening. The incident, which occurred at the school, also sent six others to the hospital with injuries.
"People were just freaking out; no one knew what was going on. A lot of people were unable to breathe. I was outside the room when I heard the gunshots," explained fellow student, Rebecca Abraham. "There were a lot of people crying, a lot of people unable to breathe. They were streaming out of the room, coughing and in tears."
Another student who witnessed the trouble said, "People were just freaking out. No one really knew what was going on. "Pretty Ricky aren't a 'guns and violence' sort of group but that kind of crowd still turned up and they just kicked off."A 22-year-old Nottinghamshire man who was not a student has been arrested for the shooting and police are investigating who discharged the tear gas.
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