She is known for collaborations with several No Limit Records artists, including Master P and Silkk the Shocker on the seminal albums, Ice Cream Man, Ghetto D and Charge It 2 Da Game.

She graduated from Redeemer High School and briefly attended Delgado Community College before she decided to pursue a career in music.

[5] Mia X's rap career began in the late '80s and early '90s before she graduated from high school, when she performed in a "mobile entertainment service" called New York Inc. with Mannie Fresh, who would later rise to stardom as the production genius behind Cash Money Records.

[6] Joseph later filed a $10 million lawsuit against Master P and No Limit Records, asserting that the label "persuaded Mia X to break her contract."

In 1997, she released her first single from her upcoming second album titled "The Party Don't Stop" featuring Master P and Foxy Brown.

Beginning in 1999, Mia X went on hiatus from recording following the deaths of fourteen family members, including both her parents, in an eighteen-month span, in addition to the dissolution of the No Limit roster due to Master P pursuing non-musical interests.

[12] In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Mia X recorded "My FEMA People" in response to the ensuing disastrous conditions in New Orleans.

[13] Mia X appeared on C-Murder's 2008 release Screamin' 4 Vengeance, on tracks titled "Mihita" and "Posted on tha Block".