"I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed"
About this Quote
The specificity matters. "Twice" sharpens the claim into a pattern, not a freak incident. "Slandered and defamed" isn’t casual gossip language; it’s courtroom diction, the vocabulary of someone who’s had to learn how reputation gets litigated when you don’t control the narrative. Brown is pointing at the machinery behind celebrity: tabloids, radio chatter, blog-era dogpiles, and the way those forces can make accusation feel like fact. For women in hip-hop, that machinery has always been gendered, eager to reframe ambition as volatility and power as criminality.
The subtext is bigger than any single arrest record. She’s describing a world where public perception is a kind of policing, where the punishment is being talked about, not just being detained. Coming from a rapper whose early career was marketed as both dangerous and desirable, the statement reads as a refusal to let the spectacle stand in for the truth. It’s less "feel sorry for me" than "notice the system that keeps needing me to be guilty."
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| Topic | Justice |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Brown, Foxy. (2026, January 17). I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-falsely-arrested-twice-slandered-and-defamed-49512/
Chicago Style
Brown, Foxy. "I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-falsely-arrested-twice-slandered-and-defamed-49512/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-falsely-arrested-twice-slandered-and-defamed-49512/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.




