{"id":1886,"date":"2008-04-22T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/04\/jesus-is-my-prison-copilot-fox.html"},"modified":"2008-04-22T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:38:12","slug":"jesus-is-my-prison-copilot-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/04\/jesus-is-my-prison-copilot-fox.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus is My (Prison) Copilot: Foxy Brown on Coping With Incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"foxybrownpic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/foxybrownpic.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"205\" style=\"float:right;margin: 5px\">Rapper Foxy Brown just finished serving time (8 months in Rikers) for smacking a Brooklyn neighbor with her BlackBerry. While that might not sound like a prisonworthy offense, it was a violation of her probation, which itself was the result of her arrest for attacking two nail-salon workers in Chelsea during a manicure argument in 2006. Plus, the smackee had been left with a swollen lip, black eye, and loose teeth, as a result of the attack. (With Russell Crowe&#8217;s chucking a cell phone at someone a year or so back, one cannot help but wonder if &#8220;cellphone is the new Glock.&#8221;)<br \/>\nWhile Foxy described prison as an &#8220;atrocity,&#8221; she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/04212008\/news\/regionalnews\/foxy__thank_god__107397.htm\" target=\"_blank\">notes the importance of prayer <\/a>in getting her through it. &#8220;Night and day, I had nothing else to do but pray.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWhile many celebrities experience religious epiphanies and rediscover the deity during their prison experiences (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2007\/jun\/12\/usa.danglaister\" target=\"_blank\">see also, Paris Hilton<\/a>), Fox wants her fans to know she&#8217;s always been into religion and prayer:<br \/>\nFoxy insisted her faith in God is nothing new. &#8220;Every Sunday, I&#8217;ve gone to church. Whenever I&#8217;ve been on tour, wherever I&#8217;ve been in the world, I&#8217;ve found a church,&#8221; she said. &#8220;People don&#8217;t really know, but my foundation has always been in Christ.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;God knows my heart,&#8221; she added.<br \/>\nAnd she says she&#8217;s not a bit worried that being seen in church could turn off her fans. &#8220;I don&#8217;t care who sees me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to worship and I&#8217;m going to praise.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn a later report on the post-jailhouse Foxy&#8217;s activities, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/04222008\/news\/columnists\/let_us_pay_107537.htm\" target=\"_blank\">NY Post reported <\/a>that she had attended a mass on the Upper West Side dressed to the nines, in Marc Jacobs and Zac Posen. She prayed and then shopped in the church gift shop&#8211;but had forgotten her money in her Louis Vuitton bag, and was carrying her Fendi bag instead. (Who hasn&#8217;t been there&#8230;that happens to me at least once a week.)<br \/>\nNo worries, though&#8211;her bodyguard footed the bill for her, and a friend of the rapper told the Post reporter that Foxy&#8217;s clothes should not overpower her message: &#8220;Her spirituality supersedes fashion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Foxy Brown just finished serving time (8 months in Rikers) for smacking a Brooklyn neighbor with her BlackBerry. 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