Who is: Who is Shawntae Harris?

Monday, February 23, 2009

Who is Shawntae Harris?

Who is Shawntae Harris? The world knows her by her stage name Da Brat, she is an American female rapper

Da Brat was born April 14, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois. [1] She is the half sister of Lisa Raye,

an actress and designer.
She attended Kenwood Academy High School from 88-89 and graduated from Marshall Public School in 1992 per personal interview at LaGuardia Airport in 2008. She did not graduate from Kenwood Academy in 1992.

arris was involved in the altercation that ended in assault at a Halloween party at Studio 72 nightclub in Atlanta, Georgia, on 31 October 2007. Harris and a hostess exchanged verbal spars, and later, when the hostess proceeded to talk to Harris' manager, Harris attacked the hostess from behind, striking her in the face with a rum bottle. Harris entered a guilty plea to aggravated assault charges. She was sentenced to three years in prison, seven years of probation, and 200 hours of community service. According to reports, the rapper pleaded to her weeping family as she was led out of the courtroom, saying: "I love y'all." Harris, who had been convicted in 2000 for misdemeanor reckless conduct, reportedly attempted an unsuccessful escape on September 17, 2008 .

The Jermaine Dupri protégé

had chart success in 1994 with her single and video entitled "Funkdafied", taken from her debut album of the same name (Funkdafied), that reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. This album went platinum, in which made her the first female rapper to go platinum and sell one million units.[2] She had a follow-up hit from the same album, "Give It 2 You", which reached #26 on the Hot 100. During the rest of the decade, she remained somewhat low-key and came to be known more for her "featured" appearances on other rappers' and R&B singers' albums than for her own solo work.

In the summer of 1996 she contributed a rhyme to the hip hop remix of Mariah Carey's hit, "Always Be My Baby". She also made her feature film debut that year in Kazaam

with Shaquille O'Neal.

During the summer of 1997, Da Brat appeared along with Dupri on a remix of Carey's "Honey (So So Def mix)" and recorded the hit song Ladies Night with Lil' Kim

, Left-Eye

, Angie Martinez

and Missy Elliott

. She also did a track called "Ghetto Love" featuring T-Boz

of TLC,

this song & video was well received and was in heavy rotation for a short period of time. This artist also featured with Kris Kross on their track "Da Bomb" on the album "Da Bomb", as well as on their third album Young, Rich and Dangerous.

1997 she was featured on "Sock It 2 Me", a track on Missy Elliott's debut album, which became a popular single in early 1998. In 1999, Da Brat appeared, alongside Krayzie Bone

, on the remix to Mariah Carey's cover of Brenda K. Starr's "I Still Believe". She also appeared as a guest artist with Missy Elliott

on Carey's remix of "Heartbreaker", and on the remix of Brandy's

"U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)" with Shaunta. In 1999 she was also featured on the Destiny's Child

album The Writing's on the Wall's single Jumpin', Jumpin', (see below)which was an international hit.

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n early 2000, Da Brat released her third full-length album Unrestricted

, which produced the moderately successful singles "That's What I'm Looking For" (U.S. #56) and "What Chu Like" (U.S. #26), featuring soul singer, Tyrese

. The album was not well received compared to Brat's earlier work. However, the new album and new millennium did inspire an image makeover for Da Brat. Abandoning her "gangsta" persona, she decided to follow the trend in popular music and attempted to sex her image up; the video for "What Chu Like" featured Da Brat and Tyrese rolling around naked on a beach. In keeping with her new image, Da Brat exposed her third nipple live on MTV's Total Request Live

while she was hosting the show.
In 2001, Brat continued her trend of being featured on other artist's remixes, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Singles chart along with rapper Ludacris

on the main remix of Mariah Carey's " Loverboy" (see below) and being featured artist on Destiny's Child's "Survivor" remix. Da Brat also appeared as Louise in Carey's 2001 movie Glitter

In 2003, Brat released her fourth album, titled Limelite, Luv & Niteclubz

, and appeared on the 4th season of VH1's The Surreal Lif

In 2005, she made a comeback of sorts when she was featured on the remix to the song "I Think They Like Me," by Dem Franchize Boyz,

( see video below) which also featured Bow Wow and Jermaine Dupri. The song peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Singles chart and #15 on the Billboard Hot 100. Now

In 2006, she was an onstage guest on Mariah Carey's The Adventures of Mimi Tour in Atlanta, New York City, Long Island, Washington DC, Chicago,and Los Angeles performing her rap verses on the "Heartbreaker" and "Honey" remixes.

She featured in 2007 on Kelly Rowland's

"Gotsta Go"- a bonus track from her 2007 album "Ms. Kelly" and is now to be featured on a bonus track from Mariah Carey's "E=MC²" on a track entitled "4real4real" which is an iTunes pre-order exclusive (USA) and is also going to feature on the Japanese edition of the album. She also co-wrote a song with Mariah Carey called "O.O.C" which appears on "E=MC²" but does not have vocals on the track. more

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