In their best female rappers of all time roundup,Mercury Newsranks the Chicago native at no.
Her feisty persona partnered with her edgy lyrics distinguished her from other female rappers of the time.
According toAll Music, the album reached the R&B Top Five and Pop Top 20.
Da Brat met Carey in 1996, remixing Carey’s chart-topping single “Always Be My Baby.”
What happened when Mariah Carey met Da Brat?
In the interview withVariety, Da Brat discusses the longevity of her friendship with Mariah Carey.
“Me and Mariah are both Aries, and we’re both eternally twelve,” Brat shares.
“So we hit it off from the get-go.”
In 1996, Carey invited Da Brat and Jermaine Dupree back to her Bedford mansion.
Carey shared the home with her then-husband Tommy Mottola.
After showing her around, Carey decided to escape the studio for a quick fast food run.
Once the ladies left the mansion, Dupree says “all hell broke loose.”
In her memoir “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” Carey describes the incident.
“They yelled at him: ‘Where is she [Da Brat]?
Tell us where she is!”
Da Brat believes the incident was life-changing for Carey.
The friendship between the two women bloomed from adversity and has withstood the test of time.
