Foxy Brown Freed From Prison

After serving eight months of a one-year sentence for a probation violation, Foxy Brown was freed from Riker's Island on Friday (April 18).

The 29-year-old rapper (real name: is Inga Marchand) greet friends, family, fans and the media outside the jail, where she hugged and snapped photos for nearly everyone.

"This is a big day for me," Brown told reporters. "To have everybody here that I love, my whole family, the whole Brooklyn, the officers that took care of me at Rikers. Eight months to the day, I remember going in in August and I said when I come out, I'm coming out even better. And I'm back baby, it's a wrap."

Wearing a head scarf, sunglasses and a leather jacket, Foxy emerged from the jail, and enjoyed freedom, while making quick comments for cameras, for the first time since last year, before hopping into a white Rolls Royce and heading home.

The rapper was sentenced to three years' probation in October 2006 for assaulting employees of a New York nail salon in 2004. In September 2007, a judge ruled she was not taking probation seriously, due to numerous violations and other arrests, and sent her prison for one year.

Now free, Foxy is said to focus on her fourth studio album, Brooklyn's Don Diva, which was pushed back, pending her release from prison.

She's also rumored to begin filming a reality TV series. Her manager, Chazz Williams, said they have been in talks with several networks and studios to begin work on the project.

Brooklyn's Don Diva is now set for May 13.

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