After a one week hiatus Miss Rap Supreme was back in full effect on Monday with more drama as usual. With beef heating up between former friends Byata and Chiba, the house seems to be dived into two (with Byata winning the majority).

When the house was split into two groups to create a music video, despite a general consensus among the girls that Bree’s team (consisting of Bree, Ms. Cherry, and Chiba) did a better job; they lost, and Bree was sent home packing.

Deciding that ‘one, two, one, two’ was a phrase better suited for a mic check than combination punches, Bree has temporarily threw in the towel on her boxing career to pursue her dreams in music. This week HipHopDX sat down with the L.A native to talk about her west coast style, beef within the house, and more accusations of foul play from the producers and judges on the show.

HipHopDX: You started out as a boxer, what made u wanna pick up a mic?
Bree: I actually did music before I did boxing. Boxing came to me as I got a lil' older; I’ve been doing music since I was 10 or 11 years old, but I’ve always been very into my health and very into athletics, so boxing is something I picked up about five years ago. I haven’t actually quit boxing; I set it aside because it was taking too much away from my music. I still train, I still work out. But for now my focus is on music

DX: You grew up in L.A. which is definitely a musical melting pot. How has living in L.A. shaped your sound?
B: You know what I realized? I used to think I had a very versatile sound; kinda east, kinda west, kinda south. But going to the [Miss Rap Supreme] house and being with people from all over the country made me realize I have a west coast sound; I am a west coast artist. I think where you come from takes a big toll on your sound. I grew up on 'Pac and N.W.A. And that shaped my style

DX: Who are some of your musical influences or favorite artists?
B: Everyone that knows me knows I love Tupac. Hands down. I love Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, Kanye [West], Nas. Everybody that speaks the truth is who I like. I like people that come with real music.

DX: I read on MySpace that you’re also a spoken word poet. Lyrically speaking, do you feel poetry differs much from rapping?
B: No I don’t. I think that true Hip Hop is poetry. It’s all in the way you carry it. Spoken word is an amazing way to get your word out without having a beat behind you. People pay more attention to the words when there’s no beat.

DX: On Miss Rap Supreme, when teams were chosen for the video challenge, both Ms Cherry and Chiba had a very negative attitude towards being the group. How confident were you with having the two of them as team members?
B: Oh I was very confident. To be honest, I’m confident with whoever I work with because I’m confident within myself. And because I’m confident in me then I can be confident with everybody else; it doesn’t matter who I’m with. I know they are both very strong artists. So I knew, “We can make this hot.”

DX: When Byata’s team won the challenge, Nicky2States said she genuinely thought your group did a better job. Do you agree?
B: I completely agree. We did do a better job, and that’s just the honest truth. Everybody knows it…Well, I don’t wanna speak for everybody but you can watch for yourself; we truly did do a better job. And to be honest [the judges] only picked my team to lose because they already knew who they wanted to eliminate next. Me. So they had to pick us to lose. I’m not the drama-queen in the house, so they had to get rid of the un-drama queen so they can have a good show.

DX: That seems to be something a lot of the cast-offs I’ve spoken to have to say: “Yeah, it’s a competition but at the end of the day, it’s the producers who say who needs to go”…or even the whole controversy with Khia [click to read] only being on the show for publicity….
B: Right. Well, it is true. You can clearly see that because it’s clear who really has talent. Twist [click to read] was eliminated and look how talented she is. On this last episode they were showing who I really was and they weren’t making me seem weak in any way, and I still got eliminating. And the thing is, if you’re not the one they’re gonna pick [to win], they aren’t gonna make you look like the star of the show. That’s for any reality show.

DX: Do you feel like you were fairly portrayed on the show?
B: Yes and no. As I said, this show has been bittersweet. The bitter part is because I am much more talented than they portrayed me to be. I am much more of a Hip Hop artist. I am much more of a person. Yes, I stay out of drama and I’m a peace-maker, but a lot of times they made me appear weak with their editing and cutting and pasting. And that’s not me at all. I’m not weak whatsoever. But the sweet part is the exposure. Everywhere I go people know who I am. Continued on page 2 »