Foxy Brown’s manager, Chaz Williams, has revealed that the rapper’s hearing impairment is the key reason she was thrown into solitary confinement.

Reports surfaced Tuesday (October 23) that Foxy, who is currently serving time in Rikers Island, was reportedly thrown into solitary confinement by The Department of Correction for 76 days after committing three violations.

The rapper reportedly got into a shoving match with another female inmate on October 3.  The following day, the rapper would verbally abuse correction officers and refused to take a random drug test.

According to Billboard, Williams says that some of accusations against Foxy are partly false.

“There was an incident where a girl attempted to confront her and she stood her ground, but there wasn't any contact,” Williams said.  “Words were exchanged and that was it”

As for the drug test incident, Williams says that Brown did not hear the request for the test.

“She has a battery-operated device and sometimes it dies out,” claimed Williams.

Williams said that by the time Brown made out what was being requested, ‘officials t old her it was too late and that their decision to take further disciplinary action was already made’.

Foxy is confined to a cell by herself for 23 hours a day.  She is allowed to see visitors, convene with her lawyer and go to the library or exercise in a recreation area away from general-population inmates, for an hour each day.

Williams revealed that New York councilmember Charles Barron visited Foxy on Sunday (October 21) and ‘placed a call to the commissioner explaining Brown's hearing impairment’ and a request for her to be taken out of confinement. An investigation on the matter is underway.

Foxy could be facing more disciplinary charges for refusing to board a bus to head to an arraignment hearing in Brooklyn on October 12 to face assault charges. Williams says that in that incident, Foxy’s lack of hearing was also to blame.

The rapper is currently serving a one year sentence for violating probation that stemmed from a 2004 fight with two manicurists in a New York City nail salon.

She recently launched a website which will allow fans to contact her and hear material from her new album, Brooklyn's Don Diva, which hits stores next month.