In June 2006, legendary bluesman Buddy Guy talked with assistant editor Lauren Gitlin about his daughter, Shawnna, a woman some liken to the next Foxy Brown. What follows are selections from the conversation, in which Guy remembers the first time he saw his daughter perform.

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BY BUDDY GUY, AS TOLD TO LAUREN GITLIN

Anything you do in life is a problem. You can go to school and come out as a doctor and still have...

Twenty-six-year-old Chicago MC Shawnna had a taste of the big time at age twenty, rhyming on Ludacris' 2000 hit "What's Your Fantasy," and she released her solo debut, Worth tha Weight, in 2004. But the true sign that she had arrived came recently outside her South Side of Chicago apartment. "I walked past my door, and I noticed these little girls," she says, bewildered. "They just walked this neighborhood until they spotted my car and knocked on my door. I've never been followed like that."...