Quick question. Who would you be if you had legal troubles stemming from; an incident with a beauty store employee, to getting a warrant issued for your arrest for not showing up to court, to having another felony charge added to your record for throwing a Blackberry cell phone at someone, and all other types of random ridiculousness? If you were stumped, then the answer to the riddle would be Inga Marchand also known as Foxy Brown.

The brown fox has had her share of drama in and out of the courtroom, especially dealing with loss of her hearing back in 2005. Through it all, she still managed to keep her name in circulation via bad press (but there’s no such thing as bad press right?) long enough for the release of her fourth album in thirteen years, Brooklyn’s Don Diva. The album was supposed to be available to the public back in December of last year; then it got moved to May of this year due to her prison sentence.

Nonetheless, the Hip-Hop Diva’s project has finally arrived, and it starts off with the title track, “Brooklyn’s Don Diva.” She uses news clippings of reporters talking about all her various run-ins with the law for the hook, as she solidifies the facts with lines like, “I bought more lawyers, cause I caught more cases/I paid all them n*ggas in small faces.” “We Don’t Surrender” featuring up-and-comer Grafh is filled with material on her relevanc e in the game, and she also manages to drop in jabs like, “Like I’m a on hit wonder/Ain’t No N*gga gave Jay his first summer.”

Foxy taps back into her Jamaican roots with “We’re On Fire” featuring Reggae star Mavado. It’s a little evident she might still be a little sour after being dropped from The Roc, because she makes another Jay-Z referance in, “BK on my back/even Shawn couldn’t do that (wow).” On “Never Heard This Before” featuring soulster Dwele, Foxy sounds a little happier as she runs through her rap resume up to the present time.

The Firm alum AZ helps out on “Too Real.” Clearly the best song on the album, it contains a DJ Premier-esque scratch-in hook with samples of Foxy’s voice from past material being used. She opts to start the song off instead of AZ, which proves to be in her favor, because following his lyricism would probably a challenge for the diva. But in her defense, she does do a decent job matching up with one of the most lyrical MC’s in the game.

Another standout track is “Star Cry.” The woman that spent years building a wall to protect herself rips it all down brick-by-brick and opens up about she feels about her life thus far. “Why” is a tale about a woman scorned, and how she has thoughts of revenge. Lady Saw helps to bring the dancehall element on “The Quan.” The song sounds like vintage mid-90’s Hip-Hop when MC’s started recruiting DJ’s (Jamaican version of rappers) to fill in the hooks. The reggae vibe continues on “We Set The Pace” featuring Morgan Heritage and Spragga Benz—and so does Foxy continuing to talk about her past accolades.

The album stays much on the same tone from beginning to end. Basically it’s filled with how she’s done ‘this and that’ in her career, with her name-dropping designer labels and pinpointing her female anatomy as usual. Some of the material sounds a little repetitive, especially when she goes into her Jamaican dialect. In the end, Brooklyn’s Don Diva sounds like an extended version of Broken Silence, but with a huge void in female rap these days; the album will probably fit right in without anyone even noticing the difference.