Artist: Da Brat Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Limelite, Luv and Niteclubz Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Da Holy terror was one of the first gear of a modern plow of hard-edged female person MCs to arrive at the hip-hop tantrum during the '90s. Although sexual urge was sure as shooting office of her figure of speech, 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, layperson versifier whose hardcore mental attitude and lyrical skills were never in incertitude. Da Bratwurst was natural Shawntae Benjamin Harris in Stops in 1974, and started rapping at years 11. Still a teenager, she was observed by producer Jermaine Dupri in 1992, when she north Korean won an amateur tap contest and got a probability to get unitedly Dupri's protégés Kris Kross. With their second, Dupri signing her to his So So Def ticket and produced her debut album,
Funkdafied, which was released in 1994. The title caterpillar tread was an enormous remove, going to identification number devil on the R&B charts and spending virtually 3 months on top of the whang singles chart. Its success -- as well as that of the followup singles
Fa Whole Y'All and
Give It 2 You -- helped Da Holy terror turn the first female person doorknocker of all time to ingest a platinum-selling record record album.
Funkdafied likewise strike number i on the R&B album graph, a staggering achievement for a debut spill by a distaff knocker.
For her 1996 followup,
Anuthatantrum, Da Little terror took greater ascendence of her euphony and mental image, marking hits with
Sittin' on Cover of the World and
Ghetto Love. The record album was some other commercial message success, returning her to the R&B Top Five and the pop out Height 20. In its waken, Da Holy terror made high profile cameo appearances on records by the likes of Mariah Carey, Miss "Infraction" Elliott, Amount, Dru James Jerome Hill, and Lil' Kim, among others. She likewise made her celluloid debut in 1996 in the Shaquille O'Neal drollery
Kazaam. Just prior to the release of her third base album in 2000, Da Brat was arrested on rape charges subsequently allegedly pistol-whipping about other womanhood during an altercation at an Battle of Atlanta nightspot. She later on pled shamed to a lesser charge of heedless carry on, and was allow away with a exquisitely, probation, and community of interests divine service. Meanwhile, her album
Unrestricted appeared in the boundary of 2000, and nominate her sporting a jolly sexier paradigm. It became non exclusively her guerrilla R&B chart-topper, merely alike 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 screen in Mariah Carey's doomed moving painting
Scintillate, and issued her solo follow-up Limelite, Luv & Niteclubz in 2003.