Two women who say they are LisaRaye McCoy’s half sisters are publicly disputing Da Brat’s place in their family, claiming the rapper is not their father’s daughter and never has been.
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The sisters made the claim in an exclusive interview with Geneva’s Closett, a life, astrology and real talk show streaming on Patreon. In a clip shared to the show’s Instagram, they said LisaRaye has been calling Da Brat her sister for far too long, and they are done staying quiet about it.
“The fact that she claims Da Brat as her sister has been going on for much too long, like three decades now,” one of the sisters said. “We’ve sat in the back silent through it all. But the real feeling is that it’s very disrespectful. And degrading. It’s a betrayal.”
Their case comes down to a timeline. According to the sisters, their father was paralyzed in October 1968. Da Brat, born Shawntae Harris, was born on April 14, 1974. “Da Brat is not our father’s daughter,” they said. “It’s a medical miracle for that to happen. Do the math.”
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LisaRaye and Da Brat have spoken publicly about being sisters for years, and LisaRaye has long been identified as Da Brat’s paternal half sister through her father, David Ray McCoy, a Chicago businessman. The two have shared plenty of public moments, from their on air blowup on Fox Soul’s Cocktails With Queens in 2020 to their emotional reunion and LisaRaye’s role in Da Brat’s 2022 wedding to Jesseca “Judy” Dupart.
The sisters say they were never part of any of it. “We’ve never met her,” they said. “Don’t you think we would have met his child?” They also questioned whether Da Brat’s mother ever knew their father at all.
The deeper hurt in the interview is aimed at LisaRaye. The sisters say they have watched her publicly embrace Da Brat while never publicly claiming them. According to them, another sister confronted LisaRaye about it at a family gathering 11 years ago.
“She says, when are you going to make a public announcement that we’re your sisters?” they recalled. “And she said she had to be strategic.”
They say nothing changed after that conversation. “Went on to L.A. and it was all about her,” they said. “We were princesses, too. We were princesses before her.”
The sisters say they have been questioned about their own place in the family for years, and they have reached their limit. “We get challenged on this. At some point you get tired,” they said. “And that stage is now.”
The sisters did not share documentation of their father’s medical history or any DNA results, and their claims have not been independently verified. Neither LisaRaye nor Da Brat has publicly responded.
