Brown, who has spent the last eight months behind bars for probation violations, is to be released Friday, her publicist told the New York Post.

The rapper, whose real name is Inga Marchand, is expected to start work on her VH1 reality series almost immediately and her latest CD "Brooklyn's Don Diva" is set for release May 13, the Post said.

Fans are being encouraged via Marchand's Web site to support the rapper in the Rikers Island Visitor's Parking Lot as she leaves prison Friday.

"She's going to get on top of her career again," her manager Chaz Williams told Billboard.com.