Playboy.com: "Girlfight" being your first single, we have to ask about your sparring career. Have you been in any memorable girl fights?
Brooke Valentine: Yes, but not by choice. Stuff like that happens and you can't do anything about that. When a girl steps to you, what are you going to do?
PB: Are you usually the winner?
BV: I always feel like somebody has to lose, and it's not going to be me. I may be taking something out on you that you don't even understand. You're going to be like "Why did you mess with this girl?"
PB: On another song on Chain Letter, "I Want You Dead," you rattle off methods of revenge, including cutting a hole in a condom. Have you ever done that to a former boyfriend?
BV: Many of the things discussed in that song are very evil. If I haven't done it, I've definitely thought about it. I say thought about it, but almost doing it is just as bad as doing it; if you had the opportunity, you would have done it. If I'm thinking about stabbing you, isn't that enough?
PB: Were you musically inclined at an early age?
BV: I sang at church but I sang more in school. I didn't come from a musical family and never studied it, so I did things my own way. I was going through my own thing listening to the radio. I also had mature tastes. I would hear one of those old love songs and go crazy.
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