She moved to Los Angeles, California with producer and Subliminal Entertainment CEO Deja the Great to begin work on the album.

Valentine enlisted a variety of producers to work on the album including Bink!, Bloodshy & Avant, Déjà "The Great", Jermaine Dupri, Brandon Howard, Lil Jon and Matt Serletic among others.

The album was preceded by the release of the lead single "Girlfight", that features Big Boi from the band Outkast, and Lil Jon.

"Girlfight" was a commercial success peaking at twenty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as making appearances on charts in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and the UK.

To pursue a solo career, she moved to Los Angeles, California with producer and Subliminal Entertainment CEO Deja the Great and signed to Virgin Records.

[4] According to Matt Cibula from PopMatters, Chain Letter is a record "full of true strangeness and cutting-edge pop music in a number of different genres".

[5][8] It features guest appearances from Lil Jon and Big Boi; lyrically it "steps into the uncharted territory of how girls physically challenge each other".

[9][5] On the record Valentine is "lamenting that she just has to put on a lot of makeup to get noticed by a neglectful guy: “I know I’m not Halle Berry / Girls from videos / I just wanna be / Someone you can hold".

[8][10] Lyrically, "I Want You Dead", is a "demented revenge fantasy", in which "Valentine details all the ways she will ruin the life of her ex-dude, including poking holes in his prophylactics, getting him fired, and selling his stuff on eBay while he is getting eaten by maggots in his coffin.

[6][10] Bonus track "Thrill of the Chase" "uses a great Hendrix riff to underscore her rant against her boyfriend for demanding that she commit to him: “I’m really feeling you but you don’t understand / I’m not sure if I can settle down with just one man.

"[5] Entertainment Weekly critic Yancey Strickler gave acclaim to the album comparing it to play like Steven Soderbergh's filmography, saying "There's a little popcorn for the cineplex and some chewier fare for the art houses.