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Da Brat (born Shawntae Harris on April 14, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American female rapper.

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). 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 with Lil' Kim on her single "Not Tonight". That year, she also was featured on "Sock It 2 Me", a track on Missy Elliott's debut album, which became a popular single in early 1998. She also did a track called "Ghetto Love" featuring T-boz of ...

Created by dipity on Jan 24, 2008

Last updated: 11/16/09 at 02:49 PM

• Civil Brand
  2002

  Civil Brand is a movie starring Da Brat, Mos Def, LisaRaye McCoy, and Monica Calhoun made in 2002. It deals with abuse in a women's prison facility. The name "Civil Brand" is a play on words for a real prison facility in Los Angeles named Sybil Brand Institute. Civil Brand at the Internet Movie Database...
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326806

• Glitter
  Sep 20, 2001

  Glitter is a drama film starring Mariah Carey, produced by 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures and released in 2001. It centers on the life and times of a struggling singer from the early club music scene. Largely panned by critics and audiences alike, it performed poorly in theatres after it was labelled a vanity project and being an almost autobiographical account of Carey's life. The film received five nominations (and one win: Carey, for "Worst Actress") at the 2001 Golden Raspberry Awards, and has been considered one of the worst films ever made. Roger Ebert spoke well of Carey's individual performance saying, "Her [Carey's] acting ranges from dutiful flirtatiousness to intense sincerity...," but as of June 24th, 2007, it was number 20 on the Internet Movie Database's list of the worst 100 films of all time. There were already plans for this film in 1999, when it was originally called All That Glitters. But it was not until September 20 2001 that the film was released, by this...,
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118589

• Da Brat's Birthday
  1973

  Da Brat was born