Chanel West Coast

Chelsea Chanel Dudley (born September 1, 1988), known professionally as Chanel West Coast, is an American television personality, rapper, singer, and actress. She came to prominence in pop culture for her roles in MTV's Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory and Ridiculousness.

Early life

West Coast was born in Los Angeles. While growing up, she lived part of the year in North Hollywood, on the west coast of the United States, with her mother, and split summers between Ohio (with her mother's family) and New York City with her father, a DJ in New York City. Interested in performing arts since she was a kid, she performed in choir, orchestra, wrote poetry, Hip-Hop dance team, drama and cheerleading. She inherited her father's passion for music and began rapping at 14, influenced by her west coast surroundings, love of poetry and not knowing where to begin writing melodies for the lyrics she was writing. In 2009, she recorded her first song at Marvin Gaye's house, in the same booth where the legendary "Let's Get It On" was recorded. West Coast attended Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles for two years before homeschooling so she could work and pursue music.

Television career

West Coast was introduced to television personality Rob Dyrdek through mutual friends in 2008. Shortly afterwards, Dyrdek offered West Coast a position as his receptionist while he was appearing on the MTV reality series Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory. The series was renewed for a second season by MTV. The third season of the series premiered in 2011 and the fourth season began airing later that year. In 2011, West Coast appeared as Sheila in an episode of the MTV series The Hard Times of RJ Berger, making her acting debut.