According to a tacit rule, it is impossible for two female rappers to coexist. Because of this, some had opposed La Chat to Gangsta Boo. None of them, however, has ever stepped on the other's toes. While the latter was a member of Three 6 Mafia, the former was "only" an affiliate, though a very close one. And while Lola Mitchell sometimes used sexy postures when going solo, Chastity Daniels had never been anything else than a thug, she was unilaterally hardcore. As it happens, there never was any conflict between these two.
Quite the opposite. The two ladies, indeed, had envisaged for a long time a joint project, that eventually happened in 2014. It was titled Witch, both rappers impersonating a manipulative and maleficent enchantress, befittingly in the horrific world set two decades earlier by the Three 6 Mafia.
They developed that analogy as soon as on "Witch Brew", the first track, in a sepulchral atmosphere, and with the help of Canadian singer Fefe Dobson. And afterwards, proudly and bombastically, the two women explained how they exploited men, and bragged about their unsentimental ways to have sex: "I don't want relationships, right now I am only fucking you", did they pretend blatantly on "Sum 2 Do".
Of course, they were also obsessed with money, got high with drugs, and assaulted their peers, women who, contrary to them, had no attitude, no pride, no impulse to violence.
Produced by Drumma Boy and a couple of others, Witch is a minor album, but it is pleasant. Both sorcerers are experts in alchemy. Their two voices, one neat and the other raspy, are complementary on catchy songs like "Till the Day" and the threatening "Sweet Robbery", and on a few others featuring guests: the drug, sex and savagery fury on "On That", with Lil Wyte, and to a lesser extent "B!tchy", the single that heralded the album - though not on it -, and rallied the three great ladies of the South with the addition of Mia X.
The last track on Witch, where both women celebrate their comradery, is also a highlight. Its name is "Thelma & Louise". It refers to the movie, but also, maybe, to the album Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown had planned to make jointly before getting into their catfight. At the end of the day, the two greatest female rappers from Memphis delivered what the two New-Yorkers failed to achieve, and with panache.