Tarrie B, who’s the missing link between Blondie‘s shirt-lived rap career, a Madonna impersonator and Iggy Azalia, wasn’t much of a rapper. She did, on the other hand, film an amusing segment with her boss Eazy-E for the Slammin’ Rap video series, got a beat from Schoolly-D and clearly listened to some great great rap records before she abandoned rap for ‘grindcore’ band Tura Satana in 1997. Sadly, she makes no mention of the late Eric Wright in this Metal Hammer interview either, which only adds fuel to my theory that she was somehow responsible for E getting ‘the bug.’ Maybe she introduced him to some of her scumbag metal buddies who tempted Compton’s little big man to try a shot of horse with a dirty needle?
Tarrie was also far more straight-forward when dealing any issues of race than Iggy:
‘If you call me a devil…well? I’m Italian, but if you want to step and get wild? I’ll take your ass out, Mafia style!’
‘Not brown, not black, as a matter of fact/I’m white! So believe the hype!’
Murder She Wrote actually wasn’t all that bad… cool to see that old item with Eazy again :-)
“I’m half Italian if that help out any
Plus I never took slugs but I dealt out plenty”
A-Wax quotes which capture the essence of Ruthless-era Tarrie B.
As a fan of both rap and heavy metal, I can tell you that most folks in the latter community ever took Tarrie, or her bands, seriously. In the UK, she had a bit of success in the ’90s, but that’s dried up, too.
I loved the EWF sample on Swinging wit T.
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Nah it was all the high school sluts he was banging in Orange County. Allegedly.
@Dave: OC high schoolers gave Eazy AIDS?
I also find that hard to believe. He most likely caught the virus in the mid 80’s before NWA really took off.