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Title: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Can I Live on September 11, 2008, 04:59:37 AM

The Lady Of Rage - Necessary Roughness (1997)

Is this album worth checkin?

Favorite cuts for those of you who heard it?
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Post by: UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over on September 11, 2008, 05:51:37 AM
This CD is definately worth checking, no question. The title "Necessary Roughness" fits the album perfectly cause thats how it sounds. More east coastish but still has something west coast about it. My favorite tracks:
Microphone Pon Cok
Breakdown
Rough Rugged & Raw
Big Bad Lady
Sho Shot
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Booz on September 11, 2008, 06:05:05 AM
This CD is definately worth checking, no question. The title "Necessary Roughness" fits the album perfectly cause thats how it sounds. More east coastish but still has something west coast about it. My favorite tracks:
Microphone Pon Cok
Rough Rugged & Raw
Big Bad Lady
It's worth checking. Those are the tracks that I remember.
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Soopafly DPGC on September 11, 2008, 06:05:35 AM
The tracks listed above are the best ones on the CD.  Listen to it with an open mind, if you are expecting songs that sound like "Afro Puffs" on it, you'll be dissapointed.  As said above, the album has an eastcoast sound to it.  
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Okka on September 11, 2008, 06:17:56 AM
It's worth checking out, but it ain't that great though. "Sho Shot", "Breakdown", "Get Wit Da Wickedness (Remix)" and "Rough, Rugged & Raw" are really great.
Even though there's a lot of great producers on this (DJ Premier, Daz, Easy Mo Bee, "Sean Barney" Thomas), it was not what i expected.
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: kuruptDPG on September 11, 2008, 06:30:08 AM
dope album, go get it homie.

i have been listening to get with the wickedness at the moment, the way the trak starts off is amazing, i play it for 5 secs then rewind it again and do the same thing over and over again lol thats how gd the start of the song is. daz is sick for this beat.
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Black Excellence on September 11, 2008, 07:07:59 AM
this album is hot and underrated.
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: LilIain on September 11, 2008, 10:10:32 AM
wtf u have not heard this by now?

see what we all have to deal with on the internet, people that live on the net and downloiad songs and not actually live life and BUY music and KNOW your music too.

GO BUY THIS CLASSIC FAGGOT.
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Dogg Ly Dogg on September 11, 2008, 10:57:35 AM
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Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?

DEFINITELY
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Post by: D-Stress on September 11, 2008, 01:07:22 PM
This CD is definately worth checking, no question. The title "Necessary Roughness" fits the album perfectly cause thats how it sounds. More east coastish but still has something west coast about it. My favorite tracks:
Microphone Pon Cok
Rough Rugged & Raw
Big Bad Lady
It's worth checking. Those are the tracks that I remember.
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Zeus on September 11, 2008, 01:35:05 PM
very good album, slept on like on cuz it flopped on the charts

best cuts


Big Bad Lady
Sho Shot
Get with that wickedness
Rough Rugged and Raw
Confessions
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: UCC on September 11, 2008, 04:53:52 PM
Dope album, it's not like a typical classic early DR album, because there are no huge Dre beats on there and there are some filler beats and tracks, but Rage shows why she's one of the dopest lyricists/flowers on the West on the vocal side and the tracks with Primo are very dope, and the remix to Get Wit Da Wickedness has a crazy first verse

I'd like to see her do a whole album with Premier myself
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: simon on September 11, 2008, 05:08:43 PM
The track with 2pac on the hook is dope
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Can I Live on September 11, 2008, 05:10:08 PM
Dope album, it's not like a typical classic early DR album, because there are no huge Dre beats on there and there are some filler beats and tracks, but Rage shows why she's one of the dopest lyricists/flowers on the West on the vocal side and the tracks with Primo are very dope, and the remix to Get Wit Da Wickedness has a crazy first verse

I'd like to see her do a whole album with Premier myself

U do know that she's from VA though right? Not the westcoast :laugh:

But maybe you meant that you consideder her Westcoast.
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Post by: The "Untouchable" DJR on September 11, 2008, 05:35:49 PM
It's worth checking out, but it ain't that great though. "Sho Shot", "Breakdown", "Get Wit Da Wickedness (Remix)" and "Rough, Rugged & Raw" are really great.
Even though there's a lot of great producers on this (DJ Premier, Daz, Easy Mo Bee, "Sean Barney" Thomas), it was not what i expected.

That sums it up pretty good. Big Bad Lady was also a good track.
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: ThaRealSupreme on September 11, 2008, 05:45:09 PM
That cd is a classic...it stayed in my disc changer for a couple months when it first came out I just listened to it the other day matter of fact.
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Can I Live on September 11, 2008, 05:56:16 PM
Aight 'preciate the feedback bout to check it out. Props to all my niggaz (includin dyke TheRealSupreme)
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: ThaRealSupreme on September 11, 2008, 06:30:32 PM
Aight 'preciate the feedback bout to check it out. Props to all my niggaz (includin dyke TheRealSupreme)

That album came out in 97' and ur just now askin about it like it's new lol another lame ass late born rap fan
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Can I Live on September 11, 2008, 06:32:34 PM
Aight 'preciate the feedback bout to check it out. Props to all my niggaz (includin dyke TheRealSupreme)

That album came out in 97' and ur just now askin about it like it's new lol another lame ass late born rap fan

wow you got me there ;D
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Post by: mlk93 on September 12, 2008, 06:06:58 AM
i w'dlike to see a Rage album with Dre behind at that time
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Soopafly DPGC on September 12, 2008, 07:07:16 AM
There was supposed to be a Dre produced Rage album back in 94/95 titled "Eargasm".  I think it was supposed to come after the Doggfood album, but once 2Pac signed to the Row, it got put on the backburner forever.
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Post by: Booz on September 12, 2008, 09:32:00 AM
There was supposed to be a Dre produced Rage album back in 94/95 titled "Eargasm".  I think it was supposed to come after the Doggfood album, but once 2Pac signed to the Row, it got put on the backburner forever.
2Pac pretty much fucked up every project that was gonna get released.
Suge focused 24/7 on him, stupid mistake considering what happened.
AEOM was good album but the quality wasn't worth of 4 albums. Sure there was hit songs but c'mon, there was much of fillers.
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Post by: Zeus on September 12, 2008, 10:30:03 AM
yeah the album has only sold what 13 million copies? Yeah what a dum move
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: Soopafly DPGC on September 12, 2008, 10:41:43 AM
Well, I think it was great that Suge got Pac over to Death Row, and a smart move to release his album while he was hot and delay the other projects for a short time....the dumb move was not using the label's popularity to release some of the lesser known artist's albums after All Eyez On Me dropped.  Pac and Snoop were so hot at the time, Suge could've thrown them on one song on any artist's albums and increased their sales dramatically.  Back in 95/96, it wasn't as easy to get one song or two.  If you were a 2pac fan, and wanted one of his features off of another artist's album, you had to buy the whole album.  It's not like now where you can just go on the net and pick and choose songs off albums.

The first 5 albums released on Death Row all went platinum, so after that, I think Suge was nervous about releasing lesser known artists because he wanted to keep the streak going, which is why he kept relying on 2pac and snoop so much, as he knew they would go platinum no matter what the album sounded like because of their large fanbase.
Title: Re: Is "Necessary Roughness" by Lady Of Rage worth checkin?
Post by: UCC on September 12, 2008, 01:59:18 PM
Dope album, it's not like a typical classic early DR album, because there are no huge Dre beats on there and there are some filler beats and tracks, but Rage shows why she's one of the dopest lyricists/flowers on the West on the vocal side and the tracks with Primo are very dope, and the remix to Get Wit Da Wickedness has a crazy first verse

I'd like to see her do a whole album with Premier myself

U do know that she's from VA though right? Not the westcoast :laugh:

But maybe you meant that you consideder her Westcoast.

Yeah, that's what I meant




I also meant she's one of the dopest flow-ers, like she has a dope flow, not 'flower' like I said... because a flower is something else... with petals and shit