Background
Rah Digga was born in New Jersey and went to study electrical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology after scoring 1340 out of 1600 on her SATs.
Rah Digga was born in New Jersey and went to study electrical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology after scoring 1340 out of 1600 on her SATs.
New Jersey Institute of Technology.
She has been called "one of rap"s most prominent women MCs" by Allmusic and "one of hip-hop"s most skilled female MCs" in the book How to Rap. Rah Digga is a resident of Newark, New Jersey. She learned how to rap by studying the raps of KRS-One, Rakim, and Kool G Rap of the Juice Crew.
She worked with hip-hop group Twice the Flavor before joining the Outsidaz, leading to a feature on the track "Cowboys" from the Fugees album The Score.
She was spotted by Q-Tip at the Lyricist Lounge which led to her meeting Busta Rhymes and joining his Flipmode Squad and has appeared on several Busta Rhymes albums. Her debut solo, Dirty Harriet, was released in 2000 and featured Busta Rhymes and Eve.
She also worked with Bahamadia on the track "Be Ok" from Lyricist Lounge, Volume 1. At that time they were the two leading ladies of the Lyricist Lounge movement which also served as homebase for artists such as Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Pharaohe Monch, Common Sense, Lord Have Mercy, Foxy Brown and Shabaam Saahdeeq.
lieutenant is commonly referred to as the "Mickey Mouse Club of Boom Bap".
In 2001 she starred in the 2001 movie Thirteen Ghosts and sung Mirror Mirror on the soundtrack. Her second album Everything Is A Story was due to be released on J Records in 2004, but for unknown reasons was not released. Many songs from the album had leaked to the internet in an unofficial 23-track album of unreleased material, and in 2010 Rah Digga released her own version of the album, featuring unheard tracks from the album not present on the leaked version.
Rah Digga released a new album, Classic, on September 14, 2010.
Production was handled by Nottz, and a promo single was released entitled "This Ain"t Number Lil Kid Rap". Since then she has been releasing music independently through her Soundcloud, Bandcamp and iTunes accounts.
Black Entertainment Television Black Entertainment Television Hip Hop "Imperial" (1999) #16 Hot Rap "Break Fool" (2000) #15 Hot Rap.
Well known as a longtime member of the Flipmode Squad, a hip hop group led by Busta Rhymes, she parted ways amicably with the group in 2007.