Rapper Foxy Brown is calling on her fans to give her a rapturous greeting when she leaves New York's Riker's Island Prison on Friday.

The star - real name Inga Marchand - has served eight months of a 12-month sentence for violating her probation by manhandling two manicurists.

She will be set free this week and wants fans waving banners and wearing Foxy Brown T-shirts to be waiting for her in the parking lot of the notorious correctional facility.

Marchand plans to capture the scenes on film, to use in her forthcoming reality VH1 TV show, which will show her adjusting to life as a free woman.

She also has a new album, Brooklyn's Don Diva, due for release on 13 May (08).

Her manager Chaz Williams says, "She's going to get on top of her career again."