Born in Chicago and raised in the city’s roughest projects, rapper/songwriter Chella H, aka Jennifer LowEnd, turned the peril of a fatherless household and a mother battling drug addiction for the majority of her childhood into an escape through music. “I have a real sound. That’s the sound,” says Chella, who began songwriting with the purpose of reaching her peers’ souls at a young age rather than to fit into a specific genre. Not long after tapping into her creative rescue, her brother went to prison, again leaving her without a man in the house. Chella survived, living her life on the streets, peddling drugs and boosting stores in her teens. “I used to work regular jobs too, but I always got fired once they pulled up my background record,” she notes lightheartedly, adding “I always have been hustling and trying to stay above the water.”
By the time she was 15 and on her own, she was pregnant with a son and determined to
steer him on a different path. Though it was an odyssey that saw her lose her brother and
the father of her son in the same week, a heartbreak she had never previously experienced
but one that moved her to withstand by truly honing her skill to conceptualize, create and
connect. Circulating controversial mixtapes The Abortion (2011), The Morning After
(2012) and The Realist Bitch In It (2013), Chella’s passion and grittyyetalluring
story
began to grab Chicago, creating a vast fan base in the process. While Chella, as confident
in her curves as she is her credibility, notes that she is “real blunt,” she’s also found a
parallel of fun that creates authenticity you immediately sense in her voice.
