Foxy Brown will release a comeback album in December, after surgery successfully restored her hearing.

Last December, the rapper revealed her hearing had become so bad she needed someone to tap beats on her shoulder in the recording studio.

But she underwent surgery in February and her hearing has almost fully returned. She marked her comeback with a cameo performance at Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter’s Reasonalbe Doubt 10th anniversary show at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on Sunday.

And an album is pending — due for release at Christmas.

Brown tells MTV News, “I went straight from the operating room to the studio. It was really hard. I was deaf for an entire year. Completely deaf. The surgery was iffy. They didn’t know if it would be a success, and it was.”

“To suddenly lose your hearing after 10 years as a professional artist, I questioned God: ‘Why me?'”

Meanwhile, Brown will stand trial on charges of assaulting two nail salon workers in July. She is accused of beating up the salon girls in a fight over payment for a manicure in August 2004.

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