The Ill Na Na has been sitting on the sidelines quietly while big mama cat Lil' Kim has been scrapping with new kitty Nicki Minaj. But now, Fox Boogie is throwing in her 2 cents and like a double-edged sword, she's cutting on both sides.
In her interview Sway of MTV News, Foxy wisely avoids the bitter-older-woman label by praising Nicki's branding. Not her skills on the mic, her lyrics or her style. But her branding. "If you're winning, you're winning," Foxy said. So Foxy, unlike Kim, is uninterested in fighting the inevitable. Whether Fox, or Kim, like it or not, Nicki is what's hot in the streets. All the salty side swipes and concert outbursts in the world aren't gonna change that. But that doesn't mean Foxy isn't pricking Nicki a lil' bit while she takes her seat. Foxy blasted Nicki for "biting" her West Indian style on the remix to Gyptian's "Hold You." SOURCE: MTV.com
"'Cause everyone thought it was me on that dancehall record," Foxy explained. "It's something I created. That's something that had never been done before — hip-hop and dancehall together — until I did it. I didn't do it just to sell records. I didn't do it as a ploy or gimmick. My parents are from Trinidad. I'm Trinidadian. I'm West Indian. That is the music I grew up on. To incorporate that with hip-hop was the biggest thing ever."
In other words, "Me am Trini. Hear me roar." But Nicki is Trini too, so while Ms. Minaj has a big ol' bag of tricks and gimmicks, she's just as entitled to pull from her background without being accused of being fake. And if Foxy didn't do the dancehall/hip hop stuff to sell records, she should think about doing something to sell records. Cause that's been an uphill battle in 6-inch stilettos on a steep, muddy mountain for her in recent years.
While Foxy love tapped Nicki, she reserved her sharpest barbs for her old frenemy, Lil' Kim. Sway asked Foxy if she, like Kim, felt Nicki owed it to the game to pay homage to female rappers who came before her, laying the foundation for her success. Foxy's response?
"I'm not even in that category. I'm still one of the youngest female rappers in the game. They may feel like that because they're older, but I myself am still young. I don't feel that. I applaud what she's doing."
On what planet is 37 years old considered young? She's not an old, dried up raisin in the sun yet, but at 37 she's definitely no spry, young pussycat either. Inga be trying it.
