MemphisRap.com: What's up La Chat, how yah doing?
La Chat: Doing great, doing great couldn't be better.
MemphisRap.com: That's all good.
For the people who don't or who may have forgot, how long have you been in this rap game?
La Chat: I been in the rap game professionally since around 98'.
MemphisRap.com: 98', fo sho.
MemphisRap.com: There's not too many female rappers out doing what you're doing.
La Chat: I know.
MemphisRap.com: You know you got the Gangsta Boo, Lady B, Louise Lane and you Chat. Give the young upcoming female artists some advice on how to keep pushing, keep moving, doing what they doing?
La Chat: First and foremost, don't stop doing whatcha doing. Don't never stop rapping! A lot people think it's hard to get in the game and cause you a female, they think it's a male dominant game but it's not. Just get in and give it what you got, give good music and you can make your way through this industry because I sold over 150,000 copies and more males bought my CD than females you know. That's the best advice I can give you is keep doing what you doing, don't feel like it's a male game because it's not. So give em whatcha got, give good music and you'll win.
MemphisRap.com: Fo sho! That's real. Word on the street is your song Round & Round with Mike Jones is geting heavy rotation outside of Memphis. How you feel about that?
La Chat: I'm loving it. By me being already an artist as well, it's good to get something back on the radio, back in rotation and it's making me feel back like the star that I am.
MemphisRap.com: Fo sho, fo sho, that's real talk. You've also been nominated for artist of the year on MemphisRap.com with over 1,000 votes, how do you feel about that?
La Chat: I feel great about that. I had won the mixtape artist of the year at the SEA awards this year. Just for the record, no, I never received any publising, no I never received any royalties, no I never receieved any writer's publishing... Get yo business right then come the fame.
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MemphisRap.com: Fa Sho! Congrats on that!
La Chat: Thank you... and I'm glad to know I was nominated for the MemphisRap.com too, when them votes coming out?
MemphisRap.com: Well, we'll keep you posted. We working on the Memphis Rap Choice Awards and you gotta be on the spot cause it won't be the thang without ya.
La Chat: Fa sho, I just want to tell the fans to keep listening and gone vote so I can get that other award under my belt.
MemphisRap.com: I heard you gotta group, what are your plans with the group and what can we be looking out for?
La Chat: Yeah, I got the Hard Hitters coming out, I'ma end up taking them thru Select-O you know, keep it independent, get this independent money right quick, but I also got the DVD Dramatize coming out. Also we starting with a new La Chat album "Bad Influence" for probably next year, cause the Dramatize album it's selling real good. Also I'm on tour now trying to get that promoting real good featuring Mike Jones and Juvenile and Hard Hitters, so I got som stuff up fo ya!
MemphisRap.com: Fa sho, we'll be looking out for that, grind that, you know what I'm sayin! Everybody knows you're with the Rap Hustlaz, so tell us how you chose them to further yo career or why you chose them?
La Chat: I'm not with Rap Hustlaz anymore. At the time after I left Three Six Mafia, I was trying to do it all on my own and it was hard you know. I really didn't know the rap business you know, I was an artist under Hypnotize Minds so I really didn't have any doors open to me where I was walking in getting stuff done and making stuff happen.
MemphisRap.com: Right. ... it would be with Trick Daddy, I like him, he just so thuggish, you know that man just gutter...
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La Chat: So it came to a point where I felt last year was the year that I had to get something out or it was gone be hard to come back out and I ran across Nakia Shine, and you know he was telling me he could make it happen for me which he did. He made the Dramatize album happen for me and that's how I ended up using him as a better choice cause it was lot of mo' people trying to get at me, but you know Shine he jumped right on it you know what I'm sayin'. He got the Dramatize out there and it was a lil' situation where we both needed to get back out here so I got back out here and he got back out here and that's just that. But I'm holding my own tho'.
MemphisRap.com: That's the biz. Keep pushin', keep movin'. So as far as your relationship wit Rap Hustlaz is everything on the 'up and up'?
La Chat: Yeah, everythang good ya know. For now I guess, Lol.
MemphisRap.com: Lol. Ok, as an artist how do you feel you have grown in the some odd years you been in the game?
La Chat: I think I have got a lot smarter, I'm learning more about the game keep in mind cause I came into Hypnotize Minds I didn't know nothing about the game and I feel that they took advantage of that you know what I'm saying. I didn't know nothing bout BMI, ASCAP, none of the publishing lil things, or none of that. Just for the record, no, I never received any publising, no I never received any royalties, no I never receieved any writer's publishing I never knew anything about that and that's the truth and nothing but the truth. So I learned that I suppose to have way more money than what I got now and I learned how to get my business part right more than the fame. Get yo business right then come the fame cause fame aint nothing without the money and yo business right. Cause it's hard doing the work pregnant and trying to have a baby and nursing a baby...
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MemphisRap.com: Right. That's real. Ok, so if you had the chance or opportunity or if you could do a compiliation with any artist, local or nationally, who would it be and why?
La Chat: If I could it would be with Trick Daddy, I like him, he just so thuggish, you know that man just gutter, he just real real thuggish and str8 to the point. I love Trick Daddy.
MemphisRap.com: Yeah. Yeah. So, on another page I want flip to this. As an artist, how do you deal with trying to manage your music and your family?
La Chat: Ahh I just do 'em at the same time. As a matter of fact I don't have a manager, I never had a manager. I been handling my own business. When I was wit Three Six, they was somewhat my manager, but I found out that was a conflict of interest so other than that, I really been handling my own business and I just do 'em together you know like right now I'm on tour and I been gone bout a week and prolly got bout two more weeks to go. I check in wit my lil' boy, I got a 8 year old, his name is Doodie and he go to school so I have to keep checking in on him. He stay with his Grandmama while I'm out of town and I leave him with all his clothes washed up and make sho he got enough money and make sho everythang is squared away and as long as I'm calling, he understand what mama do, so it's all good.
MemphisRap.com: That's real, I know that prolly encourages alot of female rappers out there trying to do it thinking "I can't do the music thang and the family," you know what I'm sayin.
La Chat: You str8 as long as you deal with the kids you already got. Just don't end up with none while doing it, lol.
MemphisRap.com: LoL
La Chat: Cause it's hard doing the work pregnant and trying to have a baby and nursing a baby, but as long you already got kids, you good. But if you pregnant wait til after you 'drop the load' and get the baby nursed and old enough to stay with other people then you go on. ...when asked what come to my mind (When you say "Three 6 Mafia."), I love 'em but I love my family more so therefore I got to go on with what I got to do.
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La Chat: Doing great, doing great couldn't be better.
MemphisRap.com: That's all good.
For the people who don't or who may have forgot, how long have you been in this rap game?
La Chat: I been in the rap game professionally since around 98'.
MemphisRap.com: 98', fo sho.
MemphisRap.com: There's not too many female rappers out doing what you're doing.
La Chat: I know.
MemphisRap.com: You know you got the Gangsta Boo, Lady B, Louise Lane and you Chat. Give the young upcoming female artists some advice on how to keep pushing, keep moving, doing what they doing?
La Chat: First and foremost, don't stop doing whatcha doing. Don't never stop rapping! A lot people think it's hard to get in the game and cause you a female, they think it's a male dominant game but it's not. Just get in and give it what you got, give good music and you can make your way through this industry because I sold over 150,000 copies and more males bought my CD than females you know. That's the best advice I can give you is keep doing what you doing, don't feel like it's a male game because it's not. So give em whatcha got, give good music and you'll win.
MemphisRap.com: Fo sho! That's real. Word on the street is your song Round & Round with Mike Jones is geting heavy rotation outside of Memphis. How you feel about that?
La Chat: I'm loving it. By me being already an artist as well, it's good to get something back on the radio, back in rotation and it's making me feel back like the star that I am.
MemphisRap.com: Fo sho, fo sho, that's real talk. You've also been nominated for artist of the year on MemphisRap.com with over 1,000 votes, how do you feel about that?
La Chat: I feel great about that. I had won the mixtape artist of the year at the SEA awards this year. Just for the record, no, I never received any publising, no I never received any royalties, no I never receieved any writer's publishing... Get yo business right then come the fame.
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MemphisRap.com: Fa Sho! Congrats on that!
La Chat: Thank you... and I'm glad to know I was nominated for the MemphisRap.com too, when them votes coming out?
MemphisRap.com: Well, we'll keep you posted. We working on the Memphis Rap Choice Awards and you gotta be on the spot cause it won't be the thang without ya.
La Chat: Fa sho, I just want to tell the fans to keep listening and gone vote so I can get that other award under my belt.
MemphisRap.com: I heard you gotta group, what are your plans with the group and what can we be looking out for?
La Chat: Yeah, I got the Hard Hitters coming out, I'ma end up taking them thru Select-O you know, keep it independent, get this independent money right quick, but I also got the DVD Dramatize coming out. Also we starting with a new La Chat album "Bad Influence" for probably next year, cause the Dramatize album it's selling real good. Also I'm on tour now trying to get that promoting real good featuring Mike Jones and Juvenile and Hard Hitters, so I got som stuff up fo ya!
MemphisRap.com: Fa sho, we'll be looking out for that, grind that, you know what I'm sayin! Everybody knows you're with the Rap Hustlaz, so tell us how you chose them to further yo career or why you chose them?
La Chat: I'm not with Rap Hustlaz anymore. At the time after I left Three Six Mafia, I was trying to do it all on my own and it was hard you know. I really didn't know the rap business you know, I was an artist under Hypnotize Minds so I really didn't have any doors open to me where I was walking in getting stuff done and making stuff happen.
MemphisRap.com: Right. ... it would be with Trick Daddy, I like him, he just so thuggish, you know that man just gutter...
--
La Chat: So it came to a point where I felt last year was the year that I had to get something out or it was gone be hard to come back out and I ran across Nakia Shine, and you know he was telling me he could make it happen for me which he did. He made the Dramatize album happen for me and that's how I ended up using him as a better choice cause it was lot of mo' people trying to get at me, but you know Shine he jumped right on it you know what I'm sayin'. He got the Dramatize out there and it was a lil' situation where we both needed to get back out here so I got back out here and he got back out here and that's just that. But I'm holding my own tho'.
MemphisRap.com: That's the biz. Keep pushin', keep movin'. So as far as your relationship wit Rap Hustlaz is everything on the 'up and up'?
La Chat: Yeah, everythang good ya know. For now I guess, Lol.
MemphisRap.com: Lol. Ok, as an artist how do you feel you have grown in the some odd years you been in the game?
La Chat: I think I have got a lot smarter, I'm learning more about the game keep in mind cause I came into Hypnotize Minds I didn't know nothing about the game and I feel that they took advantage of that you know what I'm saying. I didn't know nothing bout BMI, ASCAP, none of the publishing lil things, or none of that. Just for the record, no, I never received any publising, no I never received any royalties, no I never receieved any writer's publishing I never knew anything about that and that's the truth and nothing but the truth. So I learned that I suppose to have way more money than what I got now and I learned how to get my business part right more than the fame. Get yo business right then come the fame cause fame aint nothing without the money and yo business right. Cause it's hard doing the work pregnant and trying to have a baby and nursing a baby...
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MemphisRap.com: Right. That's real. Ok, so if you had the chance or opportunity or if you could do a compiliation with any artist, local or nationally, who would it be and why?
La Chat: If I could it would be with Trick Daddy, I like him, he just so thuggish, you know that man just gutter, he just real real thuggish and str8 to the point. I love Trick Daddy.
MemphisRap.com: Yeah. Yeah. So, on another page I want flip to this. As an artist, how do you deal with trying to manage your music and your family?
La Chat: Ahh I just do 'em at the same time. As a matter of fact I don't have a manager, I never had a manager. I been handling my own business. When I was wit Three Six, they was somewhat my manager, but I found out that was a conflict of interest so other than that, I really been handling my own business and I just do 'em together you know like right now I'm on tour and I been gone bout a week and prolly got bout two more weeks to go. I check in wit my lil' boy, I got a 8 year old, his name is Doodie and he go to school so I have to keep checking in on him. He stay with his Grandmama while I'm out of town and I leave him with all his clothes washed up and make sho he got enough money and make sho everythang is squared away and as long as I'm calling, he understand what mama do, so it's all good.
MemphisRap.com: That's real, I know that prolly encourages alot of female rappers out there trying to do it thinking "I can't do the music thang and the family," you know what I'm sayin.
La Chat: You str8 as long as you deal with the kids you already got. Just don't end up with none while doing it, lol.
MemphisRap.com: LoL
La Chat: Cause it's hard doing the work pregnant and trying to have a baby and nursing a baby, but as long you already got kids, you good. But if you pregnant wait til after you 'drop the load' and get the baby nursed and old enough to stay with other people then you go on. ...when asked what come to my mind (When you say "Three 6 Mafia."), I love 'em but I love my family more so therefore I got to go on with what I got to do.
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