What Happened To Da Brat? | First Platinum Solo Female Rapper, Prison, Was Her Sexuality a Secret?

Da Brat, born Shawntae Harris in Chicago, Illinois, was raised primarily on the west side of the city. She went back and forth between two different households since her parents never married. She’s also the paternal half-sister of actress LisaRaye McCoy. Her main introduction to music happened in the Apostolic Pentecostal church she attended several times a week while growing up. She sang in the choir and played the piano and drums. She began rapping at the age of 11 and also learned to play several different instruments at school. Brat’s big break came in 1992 when she won the grand prize in an amateur rap contest held in Chicago and sponsored by the tv music video program Yo! MTV Raps. So, what did she win? The chance to meet the teenage rap duo Kris Kross. But, things didn’t end there. They told her they were going to tell their producer about her. That producer was none other than Jermaine Dupri. Eventually, Brat and Jermaine would meet, at a taping of the Oprah Winfrey show no less, and he would invite her to come to Atlanta. Soon after, he signed her to his So So Def label.

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