June 5th. For some it’s just another day. For local rappers Tiffany Foxx, Brook HollaDay and Scar Ladon (better known as DT), June 5th is good day and a time to celebrate.
It’s the day, two years ago, that the head-turning trio formed their rap group and named it for that day.
Some good and bad things have happened along the way.
But the trio still has something to celebrate and will do so with a Pre-birthday Celebration and Countdown at 10 p.m. Thursday, June 4 at Lure Nightclub, 1204 Washington Blvd.
As for the bad and ugly, the tried trio is shrugging it off, staying out of the way, grinding forward, but not without giving it a piece of their minds.
Number one on their list is just how male-dominated the rap game is and how most women are not taken seriously.
“If you stand your ground and don’t (have sex) for tracks, it’s hard,” said Scar Ladon.
Tiffany Foxx said, “Females rappers are just a glorified piece of eye candy until you show your talent – you can shake your butt, but what are you saying?”
Like many women in many fields, they say they are often propositioned to not only pay to play, but to lay to play.
In fact, some rumors have spread of them doing just that, but the trio say they don’t get down like that and wish people would concentrate on their music instead of their personal lives.
“I wish everybody would stop worrying about who we sleeping with and criticize the music if they want to criticize something,” Brooke HollaDay said.
Tiffany Foxx chimed in: “(Forget) politics – if I like you, I like you for you. If I don’t like you, I don’t like you and your influence isn’t going to make me like you.”
Scar Ladon added, “Don’t judge me because I spent time in London or stand by a rich man; it doesn’t mean that I’m a whore.”
It’s tough in a rap game where men don’t generally ride around listening to female rappers, though women buy most of the music. Tiffany Foxx notes that many women aren’t in barbershops buying bootlegs – that they actually go to the store to buy music.
“It would seem they would want to hear music from women,” Tiffany Foxx said.
While the trio is in studio these days, they’re still pushing a single titled “On My Worse Day,” where they proclaim that certain people couldn’t touch them on their worse day.
The single is produced by the Heartbreak Kid, younger sibling of local producer, musician and singer Bradd Young.
Famed rapper Snoop Dogg is featured on “On My Worst Day.” (Yes, one of these women was accused of sleeping with the Dogg.)
They also are working out a song with Crazy Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and are slated for a shout in The Source as new rappers on the Power 30 list. Tiffany Foxx has a role in straight to video movie aptly titled I Tried.
“We’re not just shopping and getting and nails done,” Brooke HollaDay said.
But even after a show of talent, the trio says it’s still hard for females.
“This is our passion,” Tiffany Foxx said. “We’re not baby-making machines and pretty faces – we’re better than some these (brothers) out here.”
A&R reps have questioned their marketability in the male-dominated genre, according to the trio.
For June 5th it’s simple: Street Couture. That’s their “stylo”: fashion-forward, but street.
The crew also tells the familiar scene story of getting love from everywhere, but St. Louis, but declares they are “so St. Louis.” Hate, they say, comes from males and females. Their fan base are the “ghetto girls.”
“They love to see us perform,” Brooke HollaDay said. “We speak for them.”
