DX: When we spoke with Chiba a few weeks ago she said you were one of the main reasons her friendship with Byata fell apart. How do you respond to that?
RS: I don’t know. I didn’t run behind anyone trying to steal friends. I didn’t have anything to do with that. She felt like I took her friend….but she’s a grown woman….i don’t know.
B: My friendship was ruined with Chiba [click to read] because she was jealous. She tried to school me and tell me I was a bad leader for our group… I’m like, “How could I be a bad leader if we won?” I just started paying close attention to her. She did a lot of things that TV didn’t air but I don’t wanna get into all that…

DX: She also accused you of spittin’ pre-written rhymes too even though that’s something you called her out on…
B: When we were in the house spittin’ on our own time or someone like Ghostface [Killah] [click to read] would ask us to spit; of course we spit pre-written rhymes…but when we were asked to spit a fresh rhyme [we did]. Chiba didn’t elevate and spit fresh rhymes. That was the problem. I don’t know what she was talkin’ about…she’s just a hater to be honest.

DX: Have you spoken to her at all since the show?
B: I haven’t spoken to her once. I’m not against it; I don’t hold grudges. But I don’t need her, I don’t wanna do any music with her….If she wants to reach out and say hey or whatever, then that’s cool but I’m not trying to reach out to her.

DX: We spoke with MC Serch recently and he said that women in Hip Hop have a hard time than even white men…do you agree?
MC: At the end of the day it’s a male dominated industry, not a black male dominated industry, so I definitely agree with that. We still trying to cross barriers even without being a rapper! [Laughs]
B: Women are getting into trouble and not working well together and it makes it look like we can’t handle the job. But that will change. [Miss Rap Supreme] proved that women can flow and they can be sexy and stylish and cute.

DX: Being a white female do you feel as if you have two strikes against you?
B: No, I actually feel like it’s an advantage. Anyone can be a white female that thinks she can rap, but I actually can. People look at me funny, but then when "the white girl" spits they like, “Oh shit! She can actually rap!”

DX: They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. But is there anything you regret doing or saying on the show?
RS: I don’t regret anything. That was me. I don’t like drama but if you cross me, I will get at you. That’s what it is. I rap and that’s what it is.
MC: In the first episode I wouldn’t have [gotten into an argument with Khia] [click to read]. For her age—for her to be 15 years older than me--she’s very immature. And I’m mad I let myself go there with her. Because afterwards, I realized it was all for show. It was all for the cameras. I kept tellin' her “Say it to me when you see me in The A.” I saw her [after the show] in The A and she had nothin’ to say to me.
B: I never hold any regrets…the only thing I would change is that I wouldn’t have allowed Chiba to get under my skin.

DX: Why did she get under your skin? You almost quit a $100,000 competition because of her!
B: Like I said, the TV doesn’t show a lot of stuff. For me, it was wack. She ratted on me to the producers about me smoking weed on the show—I had found some weed in my bag, and whatever, I rolled a lil' spliff and was smoking it and she went to the producers. Then, she found out that I knew one of the producers from the show and she started telling all of the girls “Byata’s gonna win 'cause she’s cool with one of the producers and she knows everyone on the show”…she was playin’ like she was my friend but behind my back telling the rest of the girls that they should all form an alliance against me and not fuck wit’ me because I was a “spy” for the producers! That wasn’t cool. I’m a Buddhist. So it was wack knowing that I come from a positive place yet I let her turn me into something I don’t wanna be. But that’s what the devil does.

DX: Cherry, in the second-to-last competition you couldn’t participate in the shooting range challenge because you were on probation. Inquiring minds wanna know what happened?
MC: I’m still on probation now…it was a pending case from years ago and I was out on bond…I got charged with three aggravated assaults with a deadly weapon—felonies. So when you have a felony charge you’re not supposed to be around guns…especially considering the fact that the charges involved a pistol. Continued on page 3 »