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ChynaDoll is the second studio album by American rapper Foxy Brown. It was released on January 26, 1999, by Ill Na Na Entertainment,[2] Violator Records and Def Jam Recordings. After the commercial success of her debut album, Ill Na Na (1996), Brown began working on her second album. This time, she insisted on being the executive producer to have a creative control over the album. She collaborated with a number of producers, such as Kanye West, D-Dot, Irv Gotti, Lil Rob, Swizz Beatz and Tyrone Fyffe, among others.

Upon its release, Chyna Doll received mixed reviews from music critics. It debuted at the top of the Billboard 200, making it the first full-rap album by a woman rapper to debut at number-one on the chart,[3] and the second by a woman in hip-hop following The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill. The album was a commercial success. Selling 173,000 copies in its first week, it was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Recording for her second album began in the summer of 1998. In September 1998, it was reported that Foxy Brown would remake Janet Jackson's classic "What Have You Done for Me Lately" for the upcoming album, as well as an update to N.W.A.'s "Real Niggaz Don't Die", calling it "Bitches with Attitude" featuring Southern female rappers Mia X and Gangsta Boo.[5]

During the recording process of the album, alternative rock singer Fiona Apple agreed to make a guest appearance on the album after an invitation from Brown, but due to scheduling differences, the session could not be arranged in enough time to make the final cut. Foxy Brown had also asked Madonna to collaborate on the album, but due to unknown circumstances, nothing ever became of it.[6]

Originally, the album was going to be called Femme Fatale and was originally going to be released on November 17, 1998, but Brown decided to delay the release of the album to give her enough time to make sure everything was the way she wanted it.

Upon initial release, Chyna Doll received mixed to positive reviews. AllMusic's journalist Jose F. Promis rating the album 2.5 stars. He cites, "...for the most part, this album is full of unappealing, pornographic raps, lame beats, and pathetic gangster posturing. The sophomore slump is evident here...".[1] Amazon journalist Oliver Wang states, "Chyna Doll just sounds like any number of New York-based rap albums, especially with its commercial formula of shuffling high hats, catchy hooks, and recycled funk loops. In the end, Brown's self-exploitive (sexually and racially) cover art is likely to offer more provocative statements than the album itself."[11]

The album was released on January 26, 1999, and debuted on the Billboard 200 charts at No. 1, making it the second time Foxy Brown conquered the chart's top position.[12] On March 24, 1999, Chyna Doll was certified platinum for shipments of over 1 million copies in the U.S.

The third and final single was "J.O.B." featuring R&B singer, Mya. The song was given a vinyl single release and also failed to chart. An alternate version featuring British girl group Honeyz was also released, but only in France.

In March 1999, it was announced that Foxy Brown would tour with R. Kelly on the "Get Up on a Room" tour featuring Busta Rhymes, Nas, Deborah Cox, and Kelly Price. After cancelling several dates due to slow ticket sales, a fatal stabbing in Miami, and Rhymes pulling out of the tour, Brown left the tour and pursued her own North American Chyna Doll Tour that began in August 1999 and stopped at 22 cities in America.[13]

Foxy Brown first burst onto the scene as a teenage sensation from Brooklyn. She was discovered at a local talent show by hitmaking production duo Trackmasters, who were working on LL COOL Js 1995 album, Mr. Smith. Foxy Browns debut album, Ill Na Na, changed the game for women in hip-hop, becoming the blueprint for female MCs in the genre. Available for the first time on vinyl since its original 1996 release, this 2 LP set is pressed on Sea Blue & White Marble vinyl for Record Store Day 2024.

Foxy began working on the album shortly after being discovered by Trackmasters and after working with many artists, such as JAY-Z and LL Cool J. It debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200, is certified platinum by the RIAA, and has sold three million copies worldwide.

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Los mejores sueos son los mas dementes, los mas improbables, difciles y arrebataos. Ac seguimos nuestro viaje musical en Jamaica con Palenque Records y esta ves les traemos Palenque Records Vol2, grabado en Kingston Jamaica con las leyendas del reggae dancehall Conrad Crystal, Daddy Shark, Foxy Brown, Glenn Ricks y King Kong, artistas que marcaron una poca en la historia de los Sound Systems Jamaiquinos.

We continue our musical journey through the African world, in different scales. This time we go to Jamaica again, for recording this new album; Palenque Rockers Vol 2, with the legends of reggae dancehall, recorded and mixed in the real Sound System style that was in vogue at the end of the 90s.

This time we have worked with wonderful artists as Foxy Brown, Daddy Shark, Glenn Ricks, Conrad Crystal and of course the almighty King Kong, who help us to discover mew artists and singers. All this artists were stars in the Dancehall arena at the end of the 90s, beginning of 21 century, and they are an important part in the history of Jamaican Sound Systems.

We bring you this new album recorded in Kingston Jamaica, for the pleasure of all music lovers in the world. Irie and deep music to keep on fighting the system and the colonial mentality in the world.

Mixes and Dubs by the artist known as Cerrero, in Bogota Colombia.

This is a new series of recordings being done in Jamaica by the one and only, Palenque Records. Palenque Rockers Vol 3 is coming soon, and more musical surprises from the new talents in the reggae and dancehall scene.

Produced by Lucas Silva

Mix and Dubs by Cerrero

Mastering by The Carvery ( UK )

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Her 1996 debut Ill Na Na established Foxy as a superstar; she was a bold emcee out of Brooklyn with a love for fashion and a no holds-barred persona. She'd briefly been musical Bonnie to Jay-Z's Clyde circa 1996, and had a tenure as a member of the short-lived (but infamous) supergroup The Firm alongside luminaries like Nas and AZ in 1997. Along the way, she racked up platinum plaques as one of the biggest women in the late 1990s rap game.

In 1997, Brown was accused of spitting on hotel workers who didn't bring her an iron after she requested it. She was arrested for missing a court appearance; and two years later, she was arrested for yelling obscenities while performing in Trinidad. In 2000, she crashed her Land Rover while driving without a license in Brooklyn. There were rumors of drug abuse and a suicide attempt. And she'd gotten engaged to, then split from, rapper Kurupt.

She'd had to endure rivalries with everyone from Queen Pen to Queen Latifah; as well as a certain other rap icon from Brooklyn to whom she was/is frequently compared. After her sophomore album, Chyna Doll, Foxy reloaded on her third outing. That particular album had fallen victim to the trappings of mainstream hip-hop circa 1998: all shiny, all the time, formulaic flossy rap. And critics slammed Chyna Doll as a boring and uninspired retread of what worked on her debut.

She semi follows through on Broken Silence; this is, like all Foxy albums, an album prepped for the charts and the radio. But it is definitely more inspired than Chyna Doll and an important moment in Foxy Brown's career. She was only a teenager when she broke through big in 1996, and on Broken Silence, we get an idea of the woman Inga Marchand has become.

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