Miss Mulatto On ‘The Rap Game,’ Working With Jermaine Dupri

Miss Mulatto came out on top of the competition on Lifetime’s The Rap Game, earning the privilege of being hip-hop mogul Jermaine Dupri‘s latest protege.

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Miss Mulatto, 16, vied for the chance to launch her career with Dupri as her producer against four other young artists. That Atlanta-based teen, who started rapping after showing an early talent for writing, was unsure at first about whether or not The Rap Game was really going to be the career-launching opportunity it promised to be.

“They contacted me over the summer and we didn’t end up filming until October. … We got a call from a California number and we were like, ‘Oh, they talkin’ about a TV show, everybody’s just all talk in this business,’” Miss Mulatto told uInterview in an exclusive interview. “But it ended up going through and it ended up being a great opportunity.”

Though an obvious young talent on any stage, Miss Mulatto, who had felt like a big fish in a small pond in her hometown among the other rappers getting started, felt the competition on the show. The Rap Game proved to be a humbling experience for Miss Mulatto, showing her what there still is for her to learn.

“Working in your own city you feel like you’ve made it already, until you’re put in a situation with four other kids that are poppin’ in their city,” Miss Mulatto said. “There’s so much more than just your little area that you dominated. There’s more to experience, and then just so much to learn being around people. You think that you’re a dope writer, you think you’re a dope artist and you’re being around people that have Grammys and things for what they do, so it’s a reality check.”

Miss Mulatto also had to get used to the long hours of work she needs to put into crafting singles with Dupri, while also keeping up with her high school work online.

“JD, he has a work ethic of his own. So just keeping up with him… He has me in the studio until like five o’clock in the morning, and I have to get up and do online school the next day by certain times,” said Miss Mulatto. “So it’s all a hustle.”

Miss Mulatto dropped the Dupri-produced “No More Talking” a few weeks ago on iTunes, and a video is soon to follow. More singles are also expected in the near future from Miss Mulatto, who hopes to bring something different to the rap genre.

“There’s never been a Miss Mulatto before,” she told uInterview. “A young female going as hard as I do. And then you know I be dripping a little sauce too, so I don’t think nobody poppin’ like me.”