Artist: Da Brat
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Limelite, Luv and Niteclubz
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Da Brat was one of the first of a modern cover of hard-edged female MCs to reach the hip-hop scene during the '90s. Although sex was sure part of her image, it wasn't as authoritative to her as it was to Lil' Kim or Foxy Brown; instead, Da Brat made her call as a knotty, secular poetiser whose hardcore mental attitude and lyrical skills were never in doubtfulness. Da Brat was natural Shawntae Harris in Chicago in 1974, and started rapping at age 11. Still a teen, she was observed by producer Jermaine Dupri in 1992, when she won an amateur tap contest and got a probability to get together Dupri's protégés Kris Kross. With their indorsement, Dupri sign-language her to his So So Def tag and produced her debut album, Funkdafied, which was released in 1994. The title caterpillar tread was an enormous remove, going to identification number deuce on the R&B charts and outlay nearly iII months on top of the whang singles chart. Its success -- as well as that of the reexamination singles Fa All Y'All and Give It 2 You -- helped Da Brat turn the first female doorknocker ever to have a platinum-selling record album. Funkdafied too hit number one on the R&B album chart, a staggering achievement for a debut release by a distaff rapper.
For her 1996 follow-up, Anuthatantrum, Da Brat took greater control of her music and image, marking hits with Sittin' on Top of the World and Ghetto Love. The album was some other commercial success, returning her to the R&B Top Five and the pop out Top 20. In its awaken, Da Brat made high profile cameo appearances on records by the likes of Mariah Carey, Missy "Misdemeanour" Elliott, Total, Dru Hill, and Lil' Kim, among others. She too made her celluloid debut in 1996 in the Shaquille O'Neal funniness Kazaam. Just prior to the release of her third album in 2000, Da Brat was arrested on assault charges after allegedly pistol-whipping some other womanhood during an altercation at an Atlanta nightclub. She afterward pled shamed to a lesser charge of heedless carry on, and was let off with a fine, probation, and community service. Meanwhile, her album Unrestricted appeared in the bound of 2000, and constitute her sporting a passably sexier paradigm. It became not only her irregular R&B chart-topper, merely likewise her biggest album on the pop charts to date, mounting into the Top Five. She besides enjoyed hits with the singles That's What I'm Looking For and What'Chu Like. In 2001, Da Brat returned to the freehanded screenland in Mariah Carey's doomed moving picture Sparkle, and issued her solo follow-up Limelite, Luv & Niteclubz in 2003.
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