When Watley was a toddler, her family relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, followed by Chicago, Illinois.

[1] As a teenager, Watley started dancing, performing hip hop, ballet and jazz styles.

[1][9] "You have the playboy blond, who is sexy and every man's dream, and as an African American woman I was like 'ok, where is the sex symbol that looks like me?'

In the 1990s, Watley began directing pornographic films[12] and started backup singing,[1] including for Kid Rock in 1999.

[9] She was co-featured, as Michele, in the 1997 stripper documentary The Unveiling, alongside Dixie Evans and Eldad Sahar.

[14][15][16][17] Variety described Watley as "a petite African-American single mom who does an athletic pole-climbing act".

[16] The Los Angeles Times described Watley as being "loaded with personality, and you hope that she fulfills her dream of moving into mainstream entertainment as a singer or actress".

[9] Watley was featured in the British documentary Glamour Girlz on Channel 4, which documents Black women in the adult film industry.

Watley was featured in the show alongside Charmaine Sinclair, who had relocated to Los Angeles from London to further her career, and porn legend Ron Jeremy.

[20][21] In 1999, she had one track entitled 5-10-15-20, which she wrote on the Porn to Rock compilation, which was released on Tommy Boy Records.

In an interview with the National Post, Watley said that she was pursuing a career in hip hop by using her fame as a porn star.

Then National Post music critic Finbarr O'Reilly called Watley's single on the compilation "one of the better tracks".

The New York Daily News described the single as "moaning unprintable pillow talk over a backdrop of distorted guitars and hip-hop drums".

[9][27] Watley appeared on the cover of Andrew Dice Clay's album Face Down, Ass Up in 2000.