US hip-hop artist Foxy Brown has been released from jail after serving eight months of her one-year sentence.
The punishment stemmed from an attack on two Manhattan nail salon stylists over a $20 (£10) manicure in 2004, which led to three years probation.
She was then jailed last September when she was accused of hitting a woman with a mobile phone and a judge ruled she was not taking probation seriously.
She spent 76 days in isolation after having a fight with another inmate.
Foxy Brown’s albums include Ill Na Na and Chyna Doll, which went to number one in the US in 1999.
Glastonbury defends Jay-Z booking
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has defended the decision to headline this year’s festival with rapper Jay-Z.
Writing in the Independent, Ms Eavis said they felt “honoured” to have the hip-hop star. “He is absolutely the right act for our festival,” she wrote.
“There is no reason why we should not have the greatest living hip-hop artist on at Glastonbury.”
Critics have linked the booking to poor ticket sales, with Oasis star Noel Gallagher calling it the wrong choice.
“I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong,” he told reporters on Sunday. Read more
By Colin Paterson
Entertainment reporter, BBC News |
Noel Gallagher has criticised the decision to have a hip-hop act headlining the Glastonbury Festival.
The Oasis guitarist said having rapper Jay-Z at the festival was the reason tickets had not sold out this year.
He said it was “wrong” to have a hip-hop headliner and added that organisers had changed things too much.
But Hattie Collins, editor of urban music magazine RWD, called Gallagher’s comments “ill-informed rubbish” and said Jay-Z was a “great crowd puller”.
There were 100,000 tickets sold for Glastonbury on the first day, but in past years all tickets had sold out in a matter of hours.
Gallagher said: “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Read more
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