Chanelle Scott Calica (born 1983), better known by her stage name Shystie, is an English female rapper-songwriter and actress. Her mother was born and raised in Barbados and her father born and raised in Grenada making her heritage West-Indian. She grew up in Hackney, East London. Shystie started gaining fame in 2003 with her white label response to Dizzee Rascal's "I Luv U" and a tour with Basement Jaxx, The Streets and 50 Cent which led to her being scooped up by major label Polydor. She is also the leading actress in the television series Dubplate Drama.
Twitter beef with Azealia Banks[]
In March 2013 Azealia and Shystie got into a Twitter beef, because the Control It music video. Azealia called the video for the song "bogus". She didn't want Shystie to release the video. Later the video's access on YouTube was blocked. Azealia tweeted the release date for her single Yung Rapunxel and Shystie later asked: "R U SURE? YOU GUYS ALWAYS CHANGING DATES". Later Banks made fun of Shystie having acne when she was young. After that Azealia and Shystie continued to beef. On March 16 Shystie released an Azealia Banks diss track called Doppelgänger.
Collaborations with Azealia Banks[]
- Neptune (Azealia Banks featuring Shystie)
- Control It (Shystie featuring Azealia Banks)
Reconciliation[]
On the 5th June 2024, Azealia posted Instagram stories:
"And whatever and I really gotta figure out a way how I'm gonna like make it up to Shystie. In my defence I was very fucking young and I had a lot of things going on with the label they were telling me not to release songs and then like she released the song and then I got in trouble and it was just like an immature fucking mess. Like I be listening to Neptune everyday and I'm like yo Shystie like really blessed that track like I'd be so elated to listen to that track, and yeah if I could take back what u said like and like apologize to her in person like I would love to do that cause Shystie is a very special talent she's a very very special talent. [attempts to rap Shystie's Neptune verse] Like I cant even rap like how fast she no she's so fire [another attempt] no she ate that!"
So far Azealia has followed Shystie on Instagram and twitter and Shystie is yet to respond or follow back