Stats: Heather has appeared in numerous XXX flicks with creative titles like “Coming on America” and “Cream On.” Now retired over ten years she has turned her attention towards a budding musical career.

This month we decided to flip things a bit and hook up a chat with the notorious Heather Hunter. Known for her X-rated exploits from back in the day Heather has put down Other People’s “Property” to pick up the mic releasing a house record and most recently hiphop collabs with Bubba Sparxx and Akinyele. Now she is readying her own debut “HH: The Unexpected” that will feature beats from highly lauded producers like DJ Premier, Scott Storch, Kid Capri and Mr. Cee among others. She is also planning to open up a bikini bar called Hunters in conjunction with Timbaland and DJ Clue. With the melding of hiphop and porn these days we figure who better to talk to than someone who has been on both sides.

Halftime (Jbutters): What exactly got you into the porn industry in the first place and after that how did you become interested in rhyming and singing?

Heather Hunter: I’ve been around since the beginning of hiphop. I grew up with a lot of friends in the hip hop industry since the Latin Quarters days. I just took a different path for a second and I figured I’d catch up with them along the way. But I got into the erotic business at the age of eighteen I went from the hiphop phase to the Hollywood industry of adult porn. I did it from the age of eighteen to twenty-one and I’ve been retired now for about ten years from that business. I didn’t expect to blow up and become an icon like they are saying but I ran with it. With me I have a lot of creative talents and sex is just not it. I think that naturally everyone knows how to have sex. I tried to master it while I was doing that profession but music has always been in my heart. My first house music record was out on Tommy Boy and then I figured I’d come back to my roots which is hiphop.

Halftime (Jbutters): I would think there would be an issue of doing mainstream work having porn on the resume. Have you come across any issues when you approached people with your projects?

HH: Even when I was in the adult industry the mainstream capitalized off of me by putting me on their shows. I’ve done a lot of TV shows and hosted BET pay per views called Luke’s Peep Show then it became the Heather Hunter Peep show. When it got to house music it wasn’t really hard. The house crowd has unconditional love when they let you in so that’s why my product with House did really well and hit on the billboard charts. When it came to hiphop and rhyming people didn’t know I knew how to flow or had lyrical talents so when it came down to being shopped having connections with all the hiphop icons helped the doors come open easier. The product I have on the album is amazing and speaks for himself. I’ve been doing this for so long, having a seventeen year career in the entertainment business, no matter what I do whether its porn, music or my club I think I put in enough time in to get that respect for the doors to open.

Halftime (Marcus): First thing I wanted to know is when you are making a movie how does it feel to be in a room full of people and actually having sexual activity?

HH: Haha!

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Posted by Halftime on Friday, November 26th, 2004 and is filed under SLICK TALKIN'.