In the first few hours of freedom for Foxy Brown Friday, the rapper reportedly went on a shopping spree in Harlem, ate some soul food and stopped by her childhood home in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights.

It was all captured by cameras for an upcoming VH1 reality show that will chronicle her adjustment to civilian life after serving eight months of a one-year sentence at New York's Rikers' Island prison, including 40 days in solitary confinement.

The 29-year-old artist, whose real name is Inga Marchand, was sentenced in September 2007 for violating the terms of her probation after she was accused of hitting a woman with a cell phone. At the time, she was on three years' probation for an August 2004 attack on two manicurists at a Manhattan nail salon. She pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in the 2004 incident.      

Foxy has always thought her sentence extra harsh because she is a celebrity.      

"I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown," she said, according to the Associated Press.

Inmates typically serve two-thirds of their sentence, according to rep for the Department of Corrections. Brown had been released and escorted from the Rikers Island prison by New York City Councilman Charles Barron, an unusual move as inmates are usually taken from prison on a public bus and delivered to a city parking lot. But as a public official, Barron had access to prison and had requested to pick up the rap star.

Police were on hand as the MC – dressed in a brown leather jacket, gold cross, blue jeans, and a brown Fendi head scarf – walked out of the prison and toward a caravan of vehicles, including a chauffeured white Rolls-Royce Phantom.      

Along the way, she stopped to hug and take pictures with scores of fans and well-wishers who had showed up in support of her release. She was driven off with a fleet of security vehicles and paparazzi on her tail.      

As previously reported, Foxy Brown will spend the next few weeks promoting the May 13 release of her album "Brooklyn's Don Diva." Her manager, Chaz Williams, told Billboard that his client is eager and ready "to get on top of her career again. She's ready to hit the ground running and do anything she needs to do to get her career back on point."