Minister Marion Hall Says Foxy Brown Once Accused Lady Saw Of Wanting To “Take Away” Spragga Benz
Minister Marion Hall says American rapper Foxy Brown once accused her of wanting to take away her then-lover Dancehall star Spragga Benz.
Hall, formerly Lady Saw in her secular Dancehall heydays, made the claim during a three-hour sermon on Sunday aimed at several female artists and listed the rapper as one of her former friends with whom she had fallen out with back in the early 2000s.
“There is a woman. She is still alright. Foxy Brown and I used to be friends. And I did two songs for her; shi did one for me but den shi wouldn’t give me di song so me and har start war,” Hall explained.
“And di accusation was that I like har man or want har man. She said it to my female manager and… it was Spragga who was friend with my ex (producer John John), so I don’t know how dat possible. Suh anyway, she was about to say something about mi career and I just shut it down. And I said some things, cause me nuh normal inna mi mouth. Mi unda construction now, but back then…,” the Room in My House artist added.
The two Foxy Brown collabs referred to by Hall were All Night, which was recorded in 2005, and The Quan, which was released in 2008.
Lady Saw had teamed up with Spragga Benz in 2000 for the explicit Back Shot track, which may have been the longstanding source of discontent for Foxy.
Spragga Benz and Foxy Brown were in a relationship and had even got engaged in the early 2000s, before breaking up in 2003.
In June last year, during an interview with Two Bees TV, Dancehall superstar Cham, had credited Foxy Brown for paving the way for mainstream Hip Hop and Reggae collaborations. The two had teamed up for the Dave Kelly-produced track When The Tables Turn in 2001.
“That whole Caribbean infusion, she started. All of them came after her and took it to the next level where they were supposed to take it. But that connection? Inga is the one that paved the way for that Caribbean connection with the Hip Hop world and we have to give credit to Inga,” Cham had said.
The Wow, The Story artist had also said that the song was composed on a plane on the way back from London and that the hook was Foxy’s idea.
“We land in New York and went to the studio, no sleep. We knocked out the record in about two hours but the hook was different… The musical greatness of who Foxy is and a lot of people don’t understand the level of where Foxy Brown is, she said everything is perfect but that hook isn’t gonna cut it.”
On her third album, 2001’s Broken Silence, Foxy Brown showcased more of her own writing skills and infused Dancehall and Caribbean flavor into her sound. Among the Dancehall-infused tracks were Oh Yeah featuring Spragga Benz and Tables Will Turn, which gave Cham, then relatively unknown in the US, his first crossover hit which was followed a few years after by Ghetto Story.