Doc Brown (rapper) Zadie Smith. Smith attended Hampstead School and Malorees Junior School along with his sister, and was often seen in her shadow. Upon leaving school, Smith decided to pursue a musical career as a rapper. Doc Brown is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. He abandoned his drama degree halfway through to study American history. Explaining his stage name, he has said: "Doc Brown's been my nickname since school, after the scientist in "Back to the Future", because I was gangly and geeky. When I started doing rap battles in my teens, it became my hip-hop handle and it's
Foxy Brown (rapper) take on the incident and denied all of Jacki-O's claims. In response, Jacki-O released a diss track titled, "Tko." In 1996, Foxy Brown engaged in disputes with former MTV "Real World" contestant-turned-rapper Heather B. and Lady of Rage after Brown made explicitly derogatory comments about the two. In 1997, the pair dissed Brown in the unreleased DJ Premier-produced "The Set Up", which was subsequently deleted from Lady of Rage's debut "Necessary Roughness" (1997). The track also featured Def Jam recording artist Nikki D, who previously made a cameo in another Foxy Brown diss record ("Name Callin', Part 1") and was