For those that have been livin` under a rock Heather Hunter is mostly known for her porn` career, adult film if ya want to get all technical. She`s appeared in numerous flicks & is the first African America woman to be inducted into the Adult Film Hall Of Fame. What some of y`all may not know is that her roots in HiP HoP go a lil` ways back, she used to work at the famed Latin Quarters club back in the day...
"My first memory of HiP HoP was the first time I actually saw Public Enemy perform at "Latin Quarters." It was a famous Hip Hop club in the early `80's, basically in the beginning of HiP HoP. I saw Public Enemy perform & that inspired me. That`s when I was consumed with HiP HoP..."
She LiNK`d up with the likes of DJ Premier, Scott Storch, Phantom Of The Beat & A Freedom Lyles for production on her album. Heather`s known DJ Premier since she was 15 years old...
"It`s so funny... I`ve been in this industry & I`ve had a career for 20 years, I have a lot of history. I grew up with a lot of people, DJ Premier I`ve known since I was fifteen years old. I used to work at the club Latin Quarters, so a lot of the HiP HoP artists that are huge today are people that I basically knew all my life. Or we`ve been in the same club scene, the same night life through all these years. DJ Premier, I met him that way. With Scott Storch, Scott Storch came through. He really came to the table giving me the love & support of seeing me succeed, he`s a very close friend of mine. I consider him family. So, a lot of people that supported this album & put together this album were people that really want to see me succeed in life..."
When asked about her album & how long it took to complete here`s what she had to say...
"I`ve been working on my album itself for about a year & a half, 2 years. Mastering the craft of rapping & being good at it. I have been working on that about 6 or 7 years..."
"..."The Unexpected" as in the content of my album, I would think that would be kind of expected because I`ve never been shy of my past. I embrace the sexual industry part of me, as well as the mainstream. I've always tried to collaborate them both. "The Unexpected" part of my album is that I can actually rhyme, I`m actually a good rapper. [chuckles] People are shocked by that because when I took on the craft of learning how to rap, it was unexpected to me as well. I guess when you truly have a passion for something, you`re really gonna do your best. I found my niche musically. I used to be with Island records in `93 when I did House music and then I was signed to Tommy Boy records. Tommy Boy records basically didn`t know what kind of music to do with me & I got shelved. So it took me a second to get back into the music business because I wanted to make sure that I truly knew what kind of music I really wanted to do..."
Heather was also a graffiti artist in the early 1980`s until she got busted by the cops....LoL, now she paints on canvases & owns an art gallery where she displays her works... "My art is my first love. It`s so funny because I used to be a graffiti artist until I got busted, like any graffiti artist might. I was put into a workshop as a child, which was Keith Harings workshop - that inspired me to go & start painting on canvases. I`ve been painting for a while; fifteen or sixteen years of my life. I`ve painted a lot of private collection stuff through celebrities & close friends, a lot of people that I know...""...I have an art gallery that I`ll be opening some art for in NYC. I`ll be exhibiting my paintings as well as new artists, popular artists - anything I can contribute. Culturally art is in my blood. There's nothing I can do about it..."
Anyways the album itself isn`t anything groundbreakin`, but if you were expecting that from a rappin` porn` star then I`d have to say ya need to slam your head off ya` computer`s keyboard a few times til some logic kicks in. Standout joints include "Suk-A..." featuring Mr. 'Put It In Your Mouth' Akinyele, the DJ Premier produced "Freak Like Me", "Girl On Girl" (doesn`t take a genius to figure out what this track`s about;) & "So Serious". The album`s worth a listen so go `head & check it out...
DJ Deadeye Presents: True To The Game Pt. 4 (Da Mash Out Edition) [Hosted by M.O.P. & Termanology]
