Da Brat (aka Shawntae Harris) spoke with Concrete Loop earlier this week in a very candid interview describing her time in prison. The rapper (who was released on Monday), shocked a lot of people back ’07 when she was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a nightclub waitress.
Proclaiming she now has control over her temper, Brat spoke about what she learned from the experience, writing a book and so much more. Make sure to check out the full interview below.
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DA BRAT “PART 1″ (SPEAKS ON SERVING TIME, WRITING A BOOK & MORE) |
DA BRAT: Hi Angel!ANGEL: Hey what’s up Da Brat? Thank you for sitting with us and talking to us.
DA BRAT What’s happening? I’m chillin, chillin’. Just got finished eating me some steamed vegetables and tilapia.
ANGEL: Ok, I was going to ask you, what was one of the first things you did when you got out?
DA BRAT I went to this restaurant in the country called the Huddle House and had me some country fried steak w/ a lot of gravy on it and some mushrooms. It was good as hell.
ANGEL: [laughs] That’s wassup. Yeah that’s the first thing a lot of people do right? Get that food.
DA BRAT Un huh.
ANGEL: So, we know you completed three years in prison..
DA BRAT Two and a half, two and a half years. And I’m on an ankle monitor right now. They got me on house arrest right now. they just won’t leave me alone.
ANGEL:Yeah I read that you were going to be on probation for seven more years?
DA BRAT Yeah probation seven years. I’m on parole til August and I’m on an ankle monitor right now, I can’t leave the house. At least I’m in the comfort of my own spot and I’m getting everything setup right now.
ANGEL: Well we hit up the Concrete Loop twitter followers earlier and told them that we would be speaking with you and one of the questions they asked the most is ‘What have you learned from your prison experience”?
DA BRAT I learned not to take things for granted so much. A lot of things that I had right at my feet. When it’s kind of taken away from you and you can’t do those things anymore, you really really learn to appreciate them more. Like studio time, a lot of times J.D. might be like “Brat, come to the studio” and I was like “naw I’ll be there later.”[laughs] I would go to sleep and not go but when you in prison you wish you could go. You can do the things you have a passion for, you wish you could hug and kiss your family when you want to. I missed flying back and forth to Chicago every week to see my family. My grandmother had been sick so and losing love ones and all that and not being able to go to the funeral. And those things really hit hard when you can’t do things that you are so used to doing. I learned a lot of patience as well, you know in prison you can’t just flip out on somebody…you kinda just gotta be like “okay, okay..” You just mind your own business.
