FOXY BROWN LEAVES DEF JAM, SIGNS WITH KOCH: News breaks as rapper makes headlines for Blackberry beatdown.

Foxy Brown’s management has announced that the trouble-prone rapper has left Def Jam after 13 years and inked a fresh deal with Koch Records, which has also agreed to house her label, Black Rose Entertainment.


"Def Jam was really an artist situation with Foxy under Jay-Z," says Chaz Williams, Foxy's manager and CEO of Black Hand Entertainment. "She's moved onto monetarily greener pastures by signing her record label, Black Rose Entertainment to Koch.”


“She is the first artist and she wants to connect with her dancehall reggae roots,” Williams continues. “Foxy's looking to sign up-and-coming Caribbean and U.S. artists. But she's definitely the first and biggest artist on her label."


Under terms of the deal, Black Rose Entertainment is obligated to drop three albums per year – the first being her own CD, “Brooklyn’s Don Diva,” on Dec. 4. Brown’s long-delayed Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam album “Black Roses” will be released through her label next year.


“I have always been a symbol of independence as a female in music," said the rapper in a statement. "My brand is already established, millions of my records have already been sold, and I have a fan base already loyal. After 13 years at Def Jam, I felt it was time as a matured business women to move on and continue my brand under the roof of something I own."


Meanwhile, TMZ.com is reporting that the Ill Na Na has “channeled her inner Naomi” and smacked a neighbor with her Blackberry phone.


According to police, the artist was arguing with her 25-year-old neighbor on July 30 when she struck the woman in the head with her cell phone. Police said the victim had some teeth knocked loose and suffered a swollen lip and eye as a result of Foxy’s alleged assault.


The rapper, whose real name is Inga Marchand, reportedly turned herself in to New York police Tuesday afternoon following a report filed by the victim. Brown was arraigned, released on $5,000 bail and is due back in court on Sept. 26.