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1. #KALEIDOSCOPE HAIR PRODUCTS CEO JESSECA DUPART MOVIE#
2. #KALEIDOSCOPE HAIR PRODUCTS CEO JESSECA DUPART TV#

Born Shawntae Harris, she hails from the West Side of Chicago and grew up in church, attending service five days a week. That group included Brat’s religious family.

#KALEIDOSCOPE HAIR PRODUCTS CEO JESSECA DUPART TV#

I mean, you saw what happened to people like Ellen: Remember when she lost her TV show, and all these horrible things were happening? People were totally against it.” “I was always told you want to be f-able to men and women to sell records - you don’t want anybody to discriminate,” she says. “Jesseca was showing me some pictures and we were going back and forth, joking ‘I’ll post it,’ ‘No, I’ll post it.’ So when she did, I was like, ‘Oh s-! I just came out after 20-something years!’ But it feels good to share with the world when you’re happy.”īrat stresses that it was her choice to stay in the closet, and not the result of pressure from label execs or managers. The announcement wasn’t planned Brat didn’t even think to give her longtime manager a heads up. So to me, the middle was just letting everybody know: ‘Hey, she’s the one.'” And when you get with somebody, you have to meet in the middle. “I was fine staying quiet, but my partner is a social media mogul - that’s how she became who she is. “I’ve always felt like being private is the better way to go, because then you don’t have so many people in your business,” Brat says.

“Both misogyny and homophobia created a culture where coming out would have been career suicide for a Black woman in hip-hop.” Now, industry insiders are buzzing about other female hip-hop pioneers who might be inspired to follow Brat’s example. While people had long speculated and made assumptions, “the social landscape was very different when she first came on the scene,” noted African American-focused website The Grio. It’s a move that would have been unimaginable at the beginning of Brat’s career. The role fits Brat, 46, for another reason: She came out publicly in March, confirming her relationship with Kaleidoscope Hair Products CEO Jesseca Dupart via a tearful Instagram post celebrating an early birthday gift (a white Bentley, complete with a red bow). She is literally working around the clock.” She has raw talent along with work ethic - the girl gets up at four in the morning for her radio show, then goes to tape ‘Dish Nation’ and she comes straight to rehearsal staying until 10 or 11. Writer and director Je’Caryous Johnson (“Whatever She Wants,” “For Love or Money”) gushes, “She was my first choice - I couldn’t think of another soul who could do this role - and it’s going to enhance the opportunities for Brat in acting: When we come to L.A., a lot of studio people will be in the house to see her brilliant performance. “I love being a badass, and I love being a part of an ensemble of women,” she says. In it, Brat plays the lesbian character, Cleo, which was originated by Latifah and suits Brat for a number of reasons.

#KALEIDOSCOPE HAIR PRODUCTS CEO JESSECA DUPART MOVIE#

This fall, she’s scheduled to tour the country in “ Set It Off,” the stage production of the beloved 1996 female heist movie that starred Vivica Fox, Jada Pinkett and Queen Latifah (tickets are being sold for a planned Sept. On top of that, every weekday afternoon she’s in front of the cameras as a co-host of Fox’s syndicated “ Dish Nation,” and she serves as executive producer of WE tv’s reality show “Growing Up Hip-Hop Atlanta,” having joined the cast in 2017 when the show debuted. But Da Brat, whose 1994 album “Funkdafied” made her the first female rapper to go platinum, is getting more airtime than ever - four hours a day, five days a week - now that she’s crossed over from artist to radio personality and joined the nationally syndicated “Rickey Smiley Morning Show” in Atlanta.