How long have you been rappin’?
I have been rappin’ since I was in the third grade?
How did you discover that you had a talent for rap?
I don’t know. I just started to try to rap. I was a big fan of MC Lyte.
Would you like to work with MC Lyte?
Yeah I would love to work with her.
What have you been doing since your last album came out?
I’m working on a new album called “Drama Ties”. I’m not with Hypnotized Minds no more. I’m dealing with another label called “Rap Hustlaz”.
What happened with your deal with Hypnotized?
It was a mis-understanding about the money situation. I always said I wasn’t gonna bad mouth them. If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be out here. It was good while it was working, but when it stopped working it was time for me to roll.
I first heard you on Tommy Wright’s album “On the run”.
Yeah I was with Tommy Wright but I had did some underground stuff with Three-6-Mafia when they was underground. I wasn’t signed or nothing, but I was just featured on it. When I was with Tommy Wright I was kinda out here on the underground.
What was it like after the first time you recorded something?
I felt famous! It wasn’t about the money then. I was young, so it felt real good.
What was it like to work with Gangsta Boo?
It was good working with her. We never had any disputes or anything like that. Everybody thought it was beef, & maybe it was but there wasn’t no problem with me. I was just trying to rap. If anybody had a problem it was never addressed to me.
How did you hook up with Rap Hustlaz?
After me, & Hypnotized couldn’t seem to get our stuff together I just wasn’t giving up. I’m a good artist, & I just didn’t wanna take a chance with doing it alone with just me. I really wasn’t ready to get out here again by myself. Rap Husltaz was known so I said that I was just gonna go and give them a try. So far everything has been good. I dropped a mix tape called “Gutta vol.1”. after that I’m working on “Drama Ties”. I got the single out right now called “Round and Round” with this hot cat Mike Jones from Texas.
How was it to work with Mike Jones?
He is real cool, & real down to earth. We talk on the phone on a regular basis. The industry better be ready for him.
How did you feel about the success of “Chicken Heads” with Gangsta Pat?
It was great! I was loving that I was on a platinum album, & the single of it. It felt real good.
Now it’s time for you to get a platinum album.
Exactly! If I was a part of a platinum album then I know I could do one.
Is it hard for you to go in the studio and write, or does it come natural?
It comes natural to me. Give me a beat and it will be wrote before you get thru laying the beat.
Have you always been like that or did it take you a while to perfect your craft?
It has always been like that so it let me know that this is what I was born to do. I never had a hard time of thinking. It always came to me.
How was it to work with Tommy Wright?
It was alright! I was never on a contract or nothing. I was just freelancing getting my name hot. I go to Atlanta and people will be like “I remember you on Tommy Wrights album”. I was a free agent. When ever he wanted to get me on a track he would give me a call.
Paul & J had to get with you?
Like I said I had already did stuff with them. I was free lansing then plus I was working a job. I was a manager of a Dixie Queen.
You were managing what?
It was Dixie Queen kind of like fast food. Paul & J called me at my place of work.
What was it like to go from managing a fast food place to being a raper?
It was very good. A lot of people knew me from rapping in Memphis anyway. They were all like “She made it”.
Was it good to get away from the fast food?
It was good. I didn’t quit just then. I worked there and rapped for a minute until the crowd started. I was making good money working too. I was getting paid about $750 a week on salary. From the age of 18 I had been managing. I was making good money anyway so I was trying to hold on to both of them.
Would people come up in the food place wanting to meet you?
Yeah they was wanting autographs or hollering in the drive thru. They didn’t care about me working at this job because I had always been working at this job. They knew I was a new rapper.
Were the people at your job real happy for you?
Yeah they would bring their folks up to the job also.
Your workers were like “My Boss is on the Chicken Heads video”?
Yeah, & I still was working then too. I was on a video, & a platinum album and still working fast food. The money was still good. If I had to take off all I had to do was get some one to work for me. If I missed two days out that week I would pay them money out my pocket to who ever covered me. They want me to come back now, but my name is too big for that now. They wanna pay me more money, & use it to bring them more customers. If I ever said fuck rap I would go back to it. It was good money. I liked to do it. It was fun to me.
How many people were you in charge of over there?
I had six crew members that I use to rotate.
If I found one of your old employees how would they describe working for you?
They are gonna tell you that I was down to earth. I wasn’t bossy like some ones mama. As long as everything got done we would have no problem. My main thing was to get the job done, & satify the customers. As long as they did that I didn’t care what they did. If we didn’t have no customers they could sit down. I wasn’t the type where you gotta be cleaning, naw. As long as we got the place clean you could talk on your cell phone.
When will “Drama Ties” come out?
It will either come out the last Tuesday of September or on October the 5th. I’m pretty well done with it. I gotta turn it in August the 19th.
Who is on the production?
Rap Hustlaz Production, a guy named Lil Pat who did a lot of stuff for Ludacris, & Three 6 Mafia. Featured on the album I got Mike Jones, Juvey, & if it works out I will get Mia-X.
Is it hard to be a female rapper in a male dominated industry?
I don’t think so. I think it is easy because when you can come along and do things that males do it makes it good. It makes you stick out. A lot of females are harder than the males out here so it is easy.
Do think the game is all fucked up, or is it cool right now?
I know it is a hard game. This rap industry is crazy. I don’t want to criticize the game. The door is wide open. Nobody is really taking the game over right now.
Do you think Memphis can play a big role in taking over the game?
Yeah we got a lot of talent down hear. We just haven’t been discovered. We are just starting to be discovered. Niggaz got a whole lot of talent over here.
What was the first thing that you recorded?
That was back on Juicy J’s greatest hits , & I recorded “Pop Til you drop”. It was a song that me, & Crunchy Black was on and Juicy J was doing the hook. That was back in 1993.
Can you describe the sound of “drama ties”?
You are gonna hear the same Chat. I aint gonna ever change it will just be an upgrade. I’m gonna stay street, gutta, & real. If you are selling dope and coming up I got a song for you. If you took losses I got a song for you. If you are locked up and cant wait to go home I got a song for you. If you are a down ass bitch for your nigga I got you. I’m everybody character because I’m feeling you right now. I’m in everybody elses world. I touch all subjects that is why I call it “Drama Ties”. All drama subjects I’m trying to hear’em.
I have been rappin’ since I was in the third grade?
How did you discover that you had a talent for rap?
I don’t know. I just started to try to rap. I was a big fan of MC Lyte.
Would you like to work with MC Lyte?
Yeah I would love to work with her.
What have you been doing since your last album came out?
I’m working on a new album called “Drama Ties”. I’m not with Hypnotized Minds no more. I’m dealing with another label called “Rap Hustlaz”.
What happened with your deal with Hypnotized?
It was a mis-understanding about the money situation. I always said I wasn’t gonna bad mouth them. If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be out here. It was good while it was working, but when it stopped working it was time for me to roll.
I first heard you on Tommy Wright’s album “On the run”.
Yeah I was with Tommy Wright but I had did some underground stuff with Three-6-Mafia when they was underground. I wasn’t signed or nothing, but I was just featured on it. When I was with Tommy Wright I was kinda out here on the underground.
What was it like after the first time you recorded something?
I felt famous! It wasn’t about the money then. I was young, so it felt real good.
What was it like to work with Gangsta Boo?
It was good working with her. We never had any disputes or anything like that. Everybody thought it was beef, & maybe it was but there wasn’t no problem with me. I was just trying to rap. If anybody had a problem it was never addressed to me.
How did you hook up with Rap Hustlaz?
After me, & Hypnotized couldn’t seem to get our stuff together I just wasn’t giving up. I’m a good artist, & I just didn’t wanna take a chance with doing it alone with just me. I really wasn’t ready to get out here again by myself. Rap Husltaz was known so I said that I was just gonna go and give them a try. So far everything has been good. I dropped a mix tape called “Gutta vol.1”. after that I’m working on “Drama Ties”. I got the single out right now called “Round and Round” with this hot cat Mike Jones from Texas.
How was it to work with Mike Jones?
He is real cool, & real down to earth. We talk on the phone on a regular basis. The industry better be ready for him.
How did you feel about the success of “Chicken Heads” with Gangsta Pat?
It was great! I was loving that I was on a platinum album, & the single of it. It felt real good.
Now it’s time for you to get a platinum album.
Exactly! If I was a part of a platinum album then I know I could do one.
Is it hard for you to go in the studio and write, or does it come natural?
It comes natural to me. Give me a beat and it will be wrote before you get thru laying the beat.
Have you always been like that or did it take you a while to perfect your craft?
It has always been like that so it let me know that this is what I was born to do. I never had a hard time of thinking. It always came to me.
How was it to work with Tommy Wright?
It was alright! I was never on a contract or nothing. I was just freelancing getting my name hot. I go to Atlanta and people will be like “I remember you on Tommy Wrights album”. I was a free agent. When ever he wanted to get me on a track he would give me a call.
Paul & J had to get with you?
Like I said I had already did stuff with them. I was free lansing then plus I was working a job. I was a manager of a Dixie Queen.
You were managing what?
It was Dixie Queen kind of like fast food. Paul & J called me at my place of work.
What was it like to go from managing a fast food place to being a raper?
It was very good. A lot of people knew me from rapping in Memphis anyway. They were all like “She made it”.
Was it good to get away from the fast food?
It was good. I didn’t quit just then. I worked there and rapped for a minute until the crowd started. I was making good money working too. I was getting paid about $750 a week on salary. From the age of 18 I had been managing. I was making good money anyway so I was trying to hold on to both of them.
Would people come up in the food place wanting to meet you?
Yeah they was wanting autographs or hollering in the drive thru. They didn’t care about me working at this job because I had always been working at this job. They knew I was a new rapper.
Were the people at your job real happy for you?
Yeah they would bring their folks up to the job also.
Your workers were like “My Boss is on the Chicken Heads video”?
Yeah, & I still was working then too. I was on a video, & a platinum album and still working fast food. The money was still good. If I had to take off all I had to do was get some one to work for me. If I missed two days out that week I would pay them money out my pocket to who ever covered me. They want me to come back now, but my name is too big for that now. They wanna pay me more money, & use it to bring them more customers. If I ever said fuck rap I would go back to it. It was good money. I liked to do it. It was fun to me.
How many people were you in charge of over there?
I had six crew members that I use to rotate.
If I found one of your old employees how would they describe working for you?
They are gonna tell you that I was down to earth. I wasn’t bossy like some ones mama. As long as everything got done we would have no problem. My main thing was to get the job done, & satify the customers. As long as they did that I didn’t care what they did. If we didn’t have no customers they could sit down. I wasn’t the type where you gotta be cleaning, naw. As long as we got the place clean you could talk on your cell phone.
When will “Drama Ties” come out?
It will either come out the last Tuesday of September or on October the 5th. I’m pretty well done with it. I gotta turn it in August the 19th.
Who is on the production?
Rap Hustlaz Production, a guy named Lil Pat who did a lot of stuff for Ludacris, & Three 6 Mafia. Featured on the album I got Mike Jones, Juvey, & if it works out I will get Mia-X.
Is it hard to be a female rapper in a male dominated industry?
I don’t think so. I think it is easy because when you can come along and do things that males do it makes it good. It makes you stick out. A lot of females are harder than the males out here so it is easy.
Do think the game is all fucked up, or is it cool right now?
I know it is a hard game. This rap industry is crazy. I don’t want to criticize the game. The door is wide open. Nobody is really taking the game over right now.
Do you think Memphis can play a big role in taking over the game?
Yeah we got a lot of talent down hear. We just haven’t been discovered. We are just starting to be discovered. Niggaz got a whole lot of talent over here.
What was the first thing that you recorded?
That was back on Juicy J’s greatest hits , & I recorded “Pop Til you drop”. It was a song that me, & Crunchy Black was on and Juicy J was doing the hook. That was back in 1993.
Can you describe the sound of “drama ties”?
You are gonna hear the same Chat. I aint gonna ever change it will just be an upgrade. I’m gonna stay street, gutta, & real. If you are selling dope and coming up I got a song for you. If you took losses I got a song for you. If you are locked up and cant wait to go home I got a song for you. If you are a down ass bitch for your nigga I got you. I’m everybody character because I’m feeling you right now. I’m in everybody elses world. I touch all subjects that is why I call it “Drama Ties”. All drama subjects I’m trying to hear’em.
