Da Brat News

So So Def CEO Jermaine Dupri has responded to critics who claim that he is not supporting incarcerated rapper Da Brat.

Caption: Da Brat 7th Annual Tribeca Film Festival - premiere of 'Tennessee' - afterparty Held at the Cadillac Lounge at Tenjune New York City, USA .... Incarcerated rapper DA BRAT is putting her experience in the music industry to good use - she's organising a talent show for fellow prison inmates.

A Chicago kid by way of California, J. Wells is part of the Likwit Crew, an extended West Coast collective that includes Tha Alkaholiks, King Tee, Phil da Agony, the Lootpack and Xzibit.

Eve was one of a new breed of tough, talented, commercially viable female MCs to hit the rap scene during the late '90s. Though she could be sexy when she chose, she wasn't as over the top as Lil' Kim or Foxy Brown, and as part of the Ruff Ryders posse, her production was harder than Da Brat's early work with Jermaine Dupri.

Da Brat was one of the first of a new breed of hard-edged female MCs to hit the hip-hop scene during the '90s. Although sexuality was certainly part of her image, it wasn't as important to her as it was to Lil' Kim or Foxy Brown; instead, Da Brat made her name as a tough, profane rhymer whose hardcore attitude and lyrical skills were never in ...