On this Day…. 26 years ago Foxy Brown dropped her DEBUT album, ‘Ill Na Na’ to critical acclaim!
Brown began working on the album after being discovered by the production team Trackmasters and appearing on a number of singles by other artists, such as LL Cool J, Case and Jay Z. The immediate success of the singles led to a bidding war at the beginning of 1996, and in March, Def Jam Recordings won and signed the then 17-year-old rapper to the label. Mostly produced by Trackmasters, Ill Na Na features guest appearances from Blackstreet, Havoc, Method Man, Kid Capri and Jay Z. Lyrically, the album mainly focuses on themes of fashion, sex and mafia.
The album pushed and broke boundaries for female rap. It became the first female rap album to debut in the top 10 of Billboard 200, First female rap album to have certified plaques outside of the United States, and highest selling and fastest female rap album of 1996 to go Platinum within 2.7 months. The album spawned the hits, ‘I’ll Be’ with Jay-Z, ‘Big Bad Mama’ with Dru Hill and the DEBUT CUT from the project, ‘Get Me Home’ featuring Blackstreet!
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