Just in time for tonight's Critical Mass bike ride, it turns out that rapper Foxy Brown may have hit two bicyclists during the pre-Republican National Convention August ride last year. Her former friend, Ayesha Quattara, says that Brown blamed her for driving a Land Rover on West Houston Street, while it was really Foxy behind the wheel. Apparently the women were trying to get from one Louis Vuitton store to another before it closed since Brown wanted to buy something. Please! We know the Takashi Murakami bags are really cute, but you don't go hitting bikers to get to them. Matthew Campau and Robert Herschenfeld were hit by the Rover, as Brown allegedly yelled at them. While Newsday wouldn't publish what she allegedly said, the Post did:
"Get out of my way, you dumb white faggots!" Herschenfeld said she screamed.Then, Herschenfeld says, someone yelled, "Hey, that's Foxy Brown." Herschenfeld, who suffered a leg injury, later found out that Foxy Brown was rap star, thanks for the Internet. Brown's attorney asserts that his client wasn't driving the car and that Quattara is a disgruntled employee. Either way, bikers, be careful of insane people trying to jet between boutique to boutique while you're riding tonight!"I laughed at first. And then she was rolling over me, so I didn't get to laugh that long," he added





Okay, one last time: the term is CYCLIST! It betrays complete ignorance to call bicycle riders "bikers." Pick up any bicycling magazine sometime. Nowhere inside will you find the term "biker." Not once. Nada. Zilch. Meanwhile, pick up an issue of BIKER magazine. You'll find lots of leather and gas-fueled heavy metal inside, but not a trace of lycra or a single bicycle inside. They used to say in the old GI Joe cartoon, "Knowing is half the battle." Now that you know, fight the other half of the battle by practicing.
Leave Foxy alone, she's deaf for crying out loud!
So you're seriously not even gonna mention the 2 biggest rappers in NY taking the stage together and making history last night. I don't know about you sometimes Gothamist.
That is the best fucking story you guys have ever covered.
As one who regularly is forced to suffer through these self centered, self rightous asswipes on a regular basis blocking traffic, I look forward to seeing as many of them hit, struck, (and hopefully permanently incapacitated) as possible. Kudos to NYPD for taking the bikes, and holding them for the full 48 hrs.
NYC Paramedic, who has regularly dealt with the "cyclists" failure to yield, and deliberately block the ambulance from getting through-- gonna start running them down.
Yeah, I can see you really became a paramedic because you care for your fellow man. Nope, just another paycheck collector. I don't see you screaming about all the drivers and pedestrians who don't yield for ambulances or police cruisers.
"self centered, self rightous [sic]"? Pot, kettle, black.