Almost Famous....Rah Digga
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oNLY liked a couple joints of her first album. If she had a better production team around here she could have went far
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My favorite female rapper of all times 
Young Zee Tf. Rah Digga
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It really was.
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Rah Digga Addresses Her Iggy Azalea Is Not Hip Hop Statement; Discusses Possibly Recording With Other Female Rappers
http://allhiphop.com/2014/11/03/rah...-hop-possibly-recording-other-female-rappers/
Earlier this year former Flipmode Squad emcee Rah Digga was not shy in sharing her feelings about Iggy Azalea. In September, Rah expressed that she did not consider Iggy Hip Hop and took issue with the Australian’s vocal style being similar to American rappers from the South.
[ALSO READ: Rah Digga Says Iggy Azalea Is Not Real & Not Hip Hop (VIDEO)]
Rah was asked about the “Fancy” performer and the culture in general during a recent interview with BET. This time the Newark, New Jersey native elaborated on her thoughts about what is “real Hip Hop.” Digga said:
In part 2 of the conversation, Rah commented on whether she would be interested in creating music with Iggy as well as Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma. Digga said:
http://allhiphop.com/2014/11/03/rah...-hop-possibly-recording-other-female-rappers/
Earlier this year former Flipmode Squad emcee Rah Digga was not shy in sharing her feelings about Iggy Azalea. In September, Rah expressed that she did not consider Iggy Hip Hop and took issue with the Australian’s vocal style being similar to American rappers from the South.
[ALSO READ: Rah Digga Says Iggy Azalea Is Not Real & Not Hip Hop (VIDEO)]
Rah was asked about the “Fancy” performer and the culture in general during a recent interview with BET. This time the Newark, New Jersey native elaborated on her thoughts about what is “real Hip Hop.” Digga said:
I don’t think that there’s one real sound that is real hip hop. I mean, that’s like a conundrum, you know. Like there’s no definite answer to what’s real hip hop. But I do feel that today, music business and hip hop culture are dramatically confused. And I say that because there are fundamentals that hip hop purists live and die by, whereas those same fundamentals don’t really apply in music business. Like music business will tell you, ‘Oh, it’s OK if you don’t write. All you gotta do is have a look and a catchy beat and a hook.’ And things like that.
But hip hop has a different set of rules. Hip hop says, ‘No, you’re supposed to write your own rhymes. You’re supposed to be authentic, you’re supposed to be original.’ Now, I wouldn’t say because you participate in the music business, you’re not hip hop. But when the music business starts anointing people with titles and giving people these hip hop accolades, you can’t be alarmed when the hip hop community has questions. … Hip hop isn’t about record sales and charting — that’s music business. Hip hop is about being the best lyricist and being true to yourself.
But hip hop has a different set of rules. Hip hop says, ‘No, you’re supposed to write your own rhymes. You’re supposed to be authentic, you’re supposed to be original.’ Now, I wouldn’t say because you participate in the music business, you’re not hip hop. But when the music business starts anointing people with titles and giving people these hip hop accolades, you can’t be alarmed when the hip hop community has questions. … Hip hop isn’t about record sales and charting — that’s music business. Hip hop is about being the best lyricist and being true to yourself.
In part 2 of the conversation, Rah commented on whether she would be interested in creating music with Iggy as well as Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma. Digga said:
I mean, I would never say ‘never.’ I think me and Remy are very similar in terms of our street cadence. As far as Nicki and Iggy… musically, it would just have to make sense. … We usually have to be friends before we do songs, like we’ve broken bread or we’ve had some kind of vibing session. I rarely do songs with people I don’t know or never met before. Remy, I know. I’ve never met Nicki or Iggy personally, so I wouldn’t just have my handlers call their handlers out-of-the-blue and say, ‘Hey, you want to do a record?’ We would have to gel organically first, and then if that opportunity presented itself… [shrugs].”
Rah Digga: You're Supposed to Write Your Own Rhymes in Hip Hop
http://www.bet.com/news/music/2014/10/31/rah-digga-write-your-own-lyrics-in-hip-hop.html
She shook up the underground during her reigning days with Busta Rhymes and the Flipmode Squad, first solidifying her skills as a lyrical goddess nearly 20 years ago. But if you think Rah Digga mysteriously vanished from the rap scene after the disbandment of her crew back in the late '00s, as Lauryn Hill would say: Come again!
Most recently the fire-spittin' rap queen grabbed headlines for her frenzy-stirring remarks aimed at Iggy Azalea, where she discredited the Aussie rapstress as an inauthentic emcee, but Rah's been busy with so much more.
BET.com caught up with the Imperial legend to get the scoop on her upcoming album and hip hop workshop, her take on the current state of female rap, the chances of a Flipmode reunion, and even the possibility of cutting a record with Remy Ma, Nicki Minaj and Azalea.
BET.com: Word is you're dropping an album soon.
Rah: Yes. ... Right now I would say my focus is more so on the community projects that I have going on. But being a "hip hopper" [laughs], born and raised, I don't think I'll ever stop making music. But this isn't really a 'Rah Digga trying to stage a comeback' or anything like that. This is more or less, 'Hey! I still make music,' you know. ... I have a couple of different projects that I am working on, though. One of them is a three-song Hip-House EP. Again, I don't have set dates for anything. It's just being from Jersey, I love House music.
Right. Club too?
Umm hmm. So I'm always playing around with House tracks. I have a live band EP that I'm also dropping as well. I'm working with the band that tours with me, so we're going to record an album just using all live instrumentation — not an album, that's going to be an EP as well. Probably like six, seven songs.
Do you have any idea what year you're looking at? Are you going to release these projects this year or the next?
Oh yeah, definitely! I had hoped to get everything released this year. But realistically, it'll be next year just because the holidays are coming up and I get really busy in the fall. Especially with traveling and touring. And I'm starting a workshop here in Newark. A cultural enrichment workshop, Hip Hop History 101, that's like my code name for it.
Is that what you were talking about on Twitter when you mentioned the hip hop school for homeless teens?
Yes! ... It starts the week of Nov. 11 and what we're doing is, we've targeted a bunch of at-risk youth that have graduated from high school but haven't really done anything since, kids that have dropped out of high school, and homeless youth. This is an initiative to get them off the streets. Like right now, they're really just sitting around on porches, they're lingering on corners, and they're getting into trouble. So we're calling these kids to come and we're paying them to attend these workshops.
That's great! Speaking of history, your recently released "Angela Davis" track is hot.
[Laughs.] Thank you!
What inspired you to do such a powerful and revolutionary song?
What inspired that record is because I listen to the music that's out nowadays, I work with these kids, and I think a lot of artists don't realize how much impact their music is having just as far as shaping their minds. ... I feel like if we got rappers making songs about wanting to be this drug dealer and that drug dealer, hey, here's one: I want to be Angela Davis! ... I feel like I'm going against the grain, if you will. Or, I'm being myself, really. I was just being myself. But it's such an antithesis of what the female rapper prototype is in 2014 that I'm feeling like I'm Angela Davis right now [laughs].
You had the whole controversy with Iggy Azalea and the comments you made about her not really being a hip hop artist, how do you feel about hip hop as a whole?
I don't think that there's one real sound that is real hip hop. I mean, that's like a conundrum, you know. Like there's no definite answer to what's real hip hop. But I do feel that today, music business and hip hop culture are dramatically confused. And I say that because there are fundamentals that hip hop purists live and die by, whereas those same fundamentals don't really apply in music business. Like music business will tell you, 'Oh, it's OK if you don't write. All you gotta do is have a look and a catchy beat and a hook.' And things like that.
But hip hop has a different set of rules. Hip hop says, 'No, you're supposed to write your own rhymes. You're supposed to be authentic, you're supposed to be original.' Now, I wouldn't say because you participate in the music business, you're not hip hop. But when the music business starts anointing people with titles and giving people these hip hop accolades, you can't be alarmed when the hip hop community has questions. ... Hip hop isn't about record sales and charting — that's music business. Hip hop is about being the best lyricist and being true to yourself.
Be sure to check out Part II of BET.com's interview with Rah Digga, as she speaks more about female rappers and a possible Flipmode reunion.
In Part I of BET.com's exclusive interview with Rah Digga, she spoke on those frenzy-stirring remarks aimed at Iggy Azalea, what she considers authentic hip hop, and the workshops and new EPs she has lined up.
Read on for Part II, where Rah, considered one of the "most skilled" by the book How to Rap, discusses her thoughts on the state of female rappers, specifically, the likelihood of a Flipmode reunion, and even the possibility of cutting a record with Remy Ma, Nicki Minaj and Azalea.
BET.com: Last we were talking about the difference between hip hop culture and the music business, are there any mainstream artists that you listen to now, who you enjoy, or would want to work with?
Rah: Hmm. Artists that are out today… I love Drake. I love ScHoolboy Q… on the female side, I'm always praising Azealia Banks. I love Azealia Banks! I love Angel Haze. I never got the opportunity to work with Nas. I would love in this lifetime to get a joint with Nas.
Is there any chance that you would ever do a record with Iggy Azalea? Or Nicki Minaj… Remy Ma?
I mean, I would never say 'never.' I think me and Remy are very similar in terms of our street cadence. As far as Nicki and Iggy… musically, it would just have to make sense. ... We usually have to be friends before we do songs, like we've broken bread or we've had some kind of vibing session. I rarely do songs with people I don't know or never met before. Remy, I know. I've never met Nicki or Iggy personally, so I wouldn't just have my handlers call their handlers out-of-the-blue and say, 'Hey, you want to do a record?' We would have to gel organically first, and then if that opportunity presented itself… [shrugs]."
Speaking of female rappers, you're one of the most respected and there are a lot of female rappers on the underground doing their thing. Nitty Scott, Rapsody, Sharaya J — who's from Jersey, I don't know if you've ever heard of her, she works with Missy...
[Nods.]
But we only see a few females at a time in the spotlight. Why do you think female rappers don't get mainstream attention like male rappers?
In the case of female MCs, the reason why you're not seeing so many of them in the mainstream is because when you're talking mainstream, you're talking music business. And those business minds are thinking to themselves, 'Is this product going to sell? Is it sexy enough to sell? Do people really want to hear what chicks are saying in rap, or do we just want to look at them?' So, I think that has a lot to do with why the music business will shun certain types of female artists. But the hip hop community, we'll love them and we'll carry the torch for them and with them.
Now, of course, you're from Newark. What's your relationship like with other veteran artists who are Jersey-based like Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill?
I have more of a solid relationship, I would say, with a lot of the newer artists just because I'm really here in the community. Lauryn is a little elusive. I mean, she's here, she's there, she's everywhere. Latifah is based out in California now. Like these are two women that I've know for over 20 years. Flavor Unit was actually one of the first hip hop crews that I was down with. And even the same can be said about the Fugees. But I just feel like now that we're older, we've just grown apart. Everybody is in their own direction. But when I'm here [in Jersey], I'm dealing with a lot of the newer, younger artists coming up.
As far as The Flipmode Squad, you guys parted ways years ago, too, on friendly terms. So is there any way that we could get another Rah Digga-Flipmode collabo? Or another Rah Digga-Busta Rhymes collab in the future?
I definitely wouldn't rule out a Busta-Rah Digga collabo because he's still my brother at the end of the day. We're not in each other's faces like that, we're not working together like that, but we are still friends. So I wouldn't rule that out. That would probably happen before an actual Flipmode reunion or anything like that because I think that everybody just, again, everybody has grown apart. We tried it, well I ain't gonna say, 'we tried it' — we did it. It worked for a certain amount of time, and then once it didn't work anymore everybody just kind of moved on.
Ok. Well, is there anything else you want to plug that you have going on?
Well, thank you to everybody that has supported me for so long and just know that Rah Digga is still making music. Rah Digga is here for the kids. Anybody who wants to help and contribute to the workshops, it's definitely needed because I'm pushing for a nationwide hip hop curriculum, but I had to start somewhere first. So I'm starting in my hometown, and hopefully it could go citywide, then statewide, then hopefully nationwide.
And there are a lot of different community leaders doing the same thing, so I'm hoping that at some point we'll all join forces and really push this because hip hop is raising our children. So it needs to happen in schools. Like hip hop has civil rights leaders, hip hop has poets, hip hop has activists... there are so many things within hip hop that are crucial to our children's upbringing, so I would hope that this is something that the world will take seriously and really want to make it a curriculum. That's my main driving force in life right now. Music is just innate [laughs]. That's just something that's never going to go away. So, in the midst of this and that, I'm always going to drop a song here and there. And eventually, you will get a full-length album.
Ok. Alright, thank you!
You're welcome!
http://www.bet.com/news/music/2014/10/31/rah-digga-write-your-own-lyrics-in-hip-hop.html
She shook up the underground during her reigning days with Busta Rhymes and the Flipmode Squad, first solidifying her skills as a lyrical goddess nearly 20 years ago. But if you think Rah Digga mysteriously vanished from the rap scene after the disbandment of her crew back in the late '00s, as Lauryn Hill would say: Come again!
Most recently the fire-spittin' rap queen grabbed headlines for her frenzy-stirring remarks aimed at Iggy Azalea, where she discredited the Aussie rapstress as an inauthentic emcee, but Rah's been busy with so much more.
BET.com caught up with the Imperial legend to get the scoop on her upcoming album and hip hop workshop, her take on the current state of female rap, the chances of a Flipmode reunion, and even the possibility of cutting a record with Remy Ma, Nicki Minaj and Azalea.
BET.com: Word is you're dropping an album soon.
Rah: Yes. ... Right now I would say my focus is more so on the community projects that I have going on. But being a "hip hopper" [laughs], born and raised, I don't think I'll ever stop making music. But this isn't really a 'Rah Digga trying to stage a comeback' or anything like that. This is more or less, 'Hey! I still make music,' you know. ... I have a couple of different projects that I am working on, though. One of them is a three-song Hip-House EP. Again, I don't have set dates for anything. It's just being from Jersey, I love House music.
Right. Club too?
Umm hmm. So I'm always playing around with House tracks. I have a live band EP that I'm also dropping as well. I'm working with the band that tours with me, so we're going to record an album just using all live instrumentation — not an album, that's going to be an EP as well. Probably like six, seven songs.
Do you have any idea what year you're looking at? Are you going to release these projects this year or the next?
Oh yeah, definitely! I had hoped to get everything released this year. But realistically, it'll be next year just because the holidays are coming up and I get really busy in the fall. Especially with traveling and touring. And I'm starting a workshop here in Newark. A cultural enrichment workshop, Hip Hop History 101, that's like my code name for it.
Is that what you were talking about on Twitter when you mentioned the hip hop school for homeless teens?
Yes! ... It starts the week of Nov. 11 and what we're doing is, we've targeted a bunch of at-risk youth that have graduated from high school but haven't really done anything since, kids that have dropped out of high school, and homeless youth. This is an initiative to get them off the streets. Like right now, they're really just sitting around on porches, they're lingering on corners, and they're getting into trouble. So we're calling these kids to come and we're paying them to attend these workshops.
That's great! Speaking of history, your recently released "Angela Davis" track is hot.
[Laughs.] Thank you!
What inspired you to do such a powerful and revolutionary song?
What inspired that record is because I listen to the music that's out nowadays, I work with these kids, and I think a lot of artists don't realize how much impact their music is having just as far as shaping their minds. ... I feel like if we got rappers making songs about wanting to be this drug dealer and that drug dealer, hey, here's one: I want to be Angela Davis! ... I feel like I'm going against the grain, if you will. Or, I'm being myself, really. I was just being myself. But it's such an antithesis of what the female rapper prototype is in 2014 that I'm feeling like I'm Angela Davis right now [laughs].
You had the whole controversy with Iggy Azalea and the comments you made about her not really being a hip hop artist, how do you feel about hip hop as a whole?
I don't think that there's one real sound that is real hip hop. I mean, that's like a conundrum, you know. Like there's no definite answer to what's real hip hop. But I do feel that today, music business and hip hop culture are dramatically confused. And I say that because there are fundamentals that hip hop purists live and die by, whereas those same fundamentals don't really apply in music business. Like music business will tell you, 'Oh, it's OK if you don't write. All you gotta do is have a look and a catchy beat and a hook.' And things like that.
But hip hop has a different set of rules. Hip hop says, 'No, you're supposed to write your own rhymes. You're supposed to be authentic, you're supposed to be original.' Now, I wouldn't say because you participate in the music business, you're not hip hop. But when the music business starts anointing people with titles and giving people these hip hop accolades, you can't be alarmed when the hip hop community has questions. ... Hip hop isn't about record sales and charting — that's music business. Hip hop is about being the best lyricist and being true to yourself.
Be sure to check out Part II of BET.com's interview with Rah Digga, as she speaks more about female rappers and a possible Flipmode reunion.
In Part I of BET.com's exclusive interview with Rah Digga, she spoke on those frenzy-stirring remarks aimed at Iggy Azalea, what she considers authentic hip hop, and the workshops and new EPs she has lined up.
Read on for Part II, where Rah, considered one of the "most skilled" by the book How to Rap, discusses her thoughts on the state of female rappers, specifically, the likelihood of a Flipmode reunion, and even the possibility of cutting a record with Remy Ma, Nicki Minaj and Azalea.
BET.com: Last we were talking about the difference between hip hop culture and the music business, are there any mainstream artists that you listen to now, who you enjoy, or would want to work with?
Rah: Hmm. Artists that are out today… I love Drake. I love ScHoolboy Q… on the female side, I'm always praising Azealia Banks. I love Azealia Banks! I love Angel Haze. I never got the opportunity to work with Nas. I would love in this lifetime to get a joint with Nas.
Is there any chance that you would ever do a record with Iggy Azalea? Or Nicki Minaj… Remy Ma?
I mean, I would never say 'never.' I think me and Remy are very similar in terms of our street cadence. As far as Nicki and Iggy… musically, it would just have to make sense. ... We usually have to be friends before we do songs, like we've broken bread or we've had some kind of vibing session. I rarely do songs with people I don't know or never met before. Remy, I know. I've never met Nicki or Iggy personally, so I wouldn't just have my handlers call their handlers out-of-the-blue and say, 'Hey, you want to do a record?' We would have to gel organically first, and then if that opportunity presented itself… [shrugs]."
Speaking of female rappers, you're one of the most respected and there are a lot of female rappers on the underground doing their thing. Nitty Scott, Rapsody, Sharaya J — who's from Jersey, I don't know if you've ever heard of her, she works with Missy...
[Nods.]
But we only see a few females at a time in the spotlight. Why do you think female rappers don't get mainstream attention like male rappers?
In the case of female MCs, the reason why you're not seeing so many of them in the mainstream is because when you're talking mainstream, you're talking music business. And those business minds are thinking to themselves, 'Is this product going to sell? Is it sexy enough to sell? Do people really want to hear what chicks are saying in rap, or do we just want to look at them?' So, I think that has a lot to do with why the music business will shun certain types of female artists. But the hip hop community, we'll love them and we'll carry the torch for them and with them.
Now, of course, you're from Newark. What's your relationship like with other veteran artists who are Jersey-based like Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill?
I have more of a solid relationship, I would say, with a lot of the newer artists just because I'm really here in the community. Lauryn is a little elusive. I mean, she's here, she's there, she's everywhere. Latifah is based out in California now. Like these are two women that I've know for over 20 years. Flavor Unit was actually one of the first hip hop crews that I was down with. And even the same can be said about the Fugees. But I just feel like now that we're older, we've just grown apart. Everybody is in their own direction. But when I'm here [in Jersey], I'm dealing with a lot of the newer, younger artists coming up.
As far as The Flipmode Squad, you guys parted ways years ago, too, on friendly terms. So is there any way that we could get another Rah Digga-Flipmode collabo? Or another Rah Digga-Busta Rhymes collab in the future?
I definitely wouldn't rule out a Busta-Rah Digga collabo because he's still my brother at the end of the day. We're not in each other's faces like that, we're not working together like that, but we are still friends. So I wouldn't rule that out. That would probably happen before an actual Flipmode reunion or anything like that because I think that everybody just, again, everybody has grown apart. We tried it, well I ain't gonna say, 'we tried it' — we did it. It worked for a certain amount of time, and then once it didn't work anymore everybody just kind of moved on.
Ok. Well, is there anything else you want to plug that you have going on?
Well, thank you to everybody that has supported me for so long and just know that Rah Digga is still making music. Rah Digga is here for the kids. Anybody who wants to help and contribute to the workshops, it's definitely needed because I'm pushing for a nationwide hip hop curriculum, but I had to start somewhere first. So I'm starting in my hometown, and hopefully it could go citywide, then statewide, then hopefully nationwide.
And there are a lot of different community leaders doing the same thing, so I'm hoping that at some point we'll all join forces and really push this because hip hop is raising our children. So it needs to happen in schools. Like hip hop has civil rights leaders, hip hop has poets, hip hop has activists... there are so many things within hip hop that are crucial to our children's upbringing, so I would hope that this is something that the world will take seriously and really want to make it a curriculum. That's my main driving force in life right now. Music is just innate [laughs]. That's just something that's never going to go away. So, in the midst of this and that, I'm always going to drop a song here and there. And eventually, you will get a full-length album.
Ok. Alright, thank you!
You're welcome!
I am always gonna love her for wearing lingerie in Busta's "Gimme Some More" video.
"Straight Spittin" from her first LP was my SHIT!!!!
http://www.ew.com/article/2013/12/02/hip-hop-1998-dmx-method-man-busta-rhymes
I think you may be confused...
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Flipmode was always my favorite crew in rap- I thought just about everybody on the crew could spit. If Rah and Lord Have Mercy had better production and marketing, there is no telling what we'd be calling "classic" today. I saw Rah Digga live once, and I can tell you that skills like that don't ever die.
Tight was the Shit!!!!!!
Even Baby Sham?Flipmode was always my favorite crew in rap- I thought just about everybody on the crew could spit. If Rah and Lord Have Mercy had better production and marketing, there is no telling what we'd be calling "classic" today. I saw Rah Digga live once, and I can tell you that skills like that don't ever die.
juuuuuuust about everyone....
Flipmode was always my favorite crew in rap- I thought just about everybody on the crew could spit. If Rah and Lord Have Mercy had better production and marketing, there is no telling what we'd be calling "classic" today. I saw Rah Digga live once, and I can tell you that skills like that don't ever die.
YOU AIN'T FUCKEN LYING!!!!
LORD HAVE
killed every feature he was on.
LORD HAVE
killed every feature he was on.
Im glad she never got famous. If she did, this would be a different thread.
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