Post Questions For The Lady Of Rage!

[Tanjential]

1. how did she feel her debut deathrow album went?
2. when did she leave deathrow? &  why?
3. is she still kool with suge?
4. how did she get down with tha row?
5. when is she droppin some new shit?
6. does she plann to work wit dat nigga daz again?
7. does she still keep in contact with jewell or michell'e
8. does she still talk to DR.DRE?
9. what was it like working with 2pac?
10. what is her fondest memory of 2pac?
11. are there any unreleased songs still on deathrow? if so what sort of features?

wasn't there some negativity between her and pac at some point?

-T

[d-nice]

1. how did she feel her debut deathrow album went?
2. when did she leave deathrow? &  why?
3. is she still kool with suge?
4. how did she get down with tha row?
5. when is she droppin some new shit?
6. does she plann to work wit dat nigga daz again?
7. does she still keep in contact with jewell or michell'e
8. does she still talk to DR.DRE?
9. what was it like working with 2pac?
10. what is her fondest memory of 2pac?
11. are there any unreleased songs still on deathrow? if so what sort of features?

wasn't there some negativity between her and pac at some point?

-T

Yeah because Pac felt like she was not a loyal person to the label because she would not diss Lil Kim and Bad Boy. She was cool with Kim.

[davida.b.]

Could we ever expect her to work with anymore east coast artists, such as Wu-Tang, Onyx, Boot Camp Clik, Kool G Rap, D-Block, Ill Bill, Cormega, MOP, RA The Rugged Man or Papoose (be sure to list these suggestions)?

Is there any chance we might see her on Detox?


...and these are my only questions that I can think of that weren't asked yet.

[RAIDErs of the lost ark]

Two old ”Lady Of Rage” interviews you should check out;

Interview # 1;
http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=131812.0

Lady Of Rage interview in Hip Hop Connection 1994.
    While Rage rightfully claims full credit her own eyecatching hairdo, it is actually Dre 100 per cent responsible for the equally clever title to her forthcoming debut album, ‘Eargasms’.
      “When he first came up with that title I didn’t like it at all. I was like ‘Ugh, what does that mean?’,” she laughs. “But when it grew on me, after he explained how the concept fitted into the ‘Introducing The Eargasm’ and ‘Ride On The Eargasm’ tracks. It suddenly all became clear and generally the album will consist of what you’ve hears thus far – things that people can relate to. There’ll be a lotta sexual stuff because that’s a part of life I know about…. And I just look at like if more people made love while listening to music then everybody’d be a lit more relaxed. So `Eargasms` is really just a getaway. Something that’s good to the ear. When you hear it you’ll release your tensions and get it all outta your system.”
        One of the tracks that reveals a different side to Rage’s talent and personality bears the unusual title of ‘Rollin’ On The River’.
        It’s just a song I particularly like – a sexual song, but not explicit or nothing like that,” she enthuses. “It’s real discreet, real classy, and dealing with me seeing the guy from afar. I’m admiring him and thinking in my mind ‘Oh, what would I do with him?’. The ‘River’ actually signifies the bed. I think that’s a catchy title and something that people can relate to. I mean, it’s different from the Rage that everybody’s heard before. But then I am a lady and I do have the that side in me that desires a man. I’m not some rough, unaffectionate-type person.”
       One of the album’s more controversial moments will defiantly prove to be *Late In The Midnight Hour’, a song dealing openly with the ‘hush-hush’ topic of mastrubation. Rage pauses to stifle an embarrassed giggle . “Well the fact is people do it! There’s nothing wrong with it – and I fell that if somebody brings it out to the light to the light then people might deal with it more! You know, it’s like the forbidden subject, even in Hip hop which has covered all kinds of other taboos. The first coupla verses are making fun of it and are discreet towards the guys. Then  for the third verse – which isn’t even completed yet – I was gonna get into the girls and say, you know, ‘It’s alright if you do, it’s actually the safest thing right now’. So it’s like at first I’m making fun in order to break the ice, and then in the end just telling everyone, ‘If that’s what you do then that’s fine’.”


Interview # 2;
http://www.allhiphop.com/features/?ID=1161

Any man who has ever played the wall at a club can tell you there’s nothing more refreshing than an assertive woman. In the world of Rap, it’s an understatement to say it requires assertion to come of age around Suge Knight, Dr. Dre, Snoop, and Tha Dogg Pound. The Lady of Rage’s pounding lyricism on “Stranded on Death Row” only foreshadowed her praises on “Afro Puffs” two years later.

The Lady of Rage’s time came at last, in 1997, with Necessary Roughness. Though critics praised the album, the headless record company didn’t support the project – allowing the album to break a flawless label history of Gold and Platinum. In the year following, added to the murders in Rap, Rage retreated to her native, Virginia.

With acting roles in Next Friday plus other appearances, Rage stayed busy – but removed from her past. With a few guest verses, compilation work, and several AllHipHop Rumor updates, a return to Rap had been long projected. Last week, a mixtape, “VA to L.A.” was released, and AllHipHop.com quickly delivered Lady of Rage to our masses – touching on the past and the future.

AllHipHop.com: “Unfucwithable” on Doggystyle All-Stars was the last big piece of work I remember of yours. What have you been up to the last two or three years?
Lady of Rage: I’ve been up to: working on album; trying to get a deal. I’ve been working on myself – my spirit and my outlook on life.
AllHipHop.com: On your outro, you mention that industry people are not always returning your calls. How has the search for the deal been going?
Lady of Rage: With Boss Lady Entertainment [the company behind the mixtape], we really haven’t gone full steam ahead as far as actually pounding the pavement for a deal. [As far as the phone calls], I’d see certain artists or producers out and say, “Is there anything I can do for your?” and [we’d exchange numbers]. When I’d call or follow-up, it’s phony. I hate it. I hate it with a passion. I hate the runaround. After I call a person four or five times, I don’t call ‘em anymore. I hold grudges. I shouldn’t, but I take all of that stuff personally.
AllHipHop.com: Mixtapes mean different things for different artists. For you, what is the best case scenario as a result of this mixtape?
Lady of Rage: The best case scenario is that Jay-Z would hear it and want to sign me. The next best case scenario is that people will know that I’m still doin’ this, my skills haven’t dulled or anything, and I’m free agent. Whoever comes with the best offer to me will definitely not regret it.
AllHipHop.com: I think the average Hip-Hopper would see you wanting to get signed, and say “Why not Snoop? Why not Dre?” Why not?
Lady of Rage: As far as Snoop, yes – we were supposed to do business together, but things didn’t work that way. I think the distributor wasn’t sure if I was or wasn’t still signed to Death Row, and didn’t want the hassle. As far as Snoop, it’s not anything personal. As far as Dre, I would love to work with Dre – but I don’t have any contact to him. He’s a hard guy to get in touch with. I don’t think I have any burnt bridges at all. Even with Suge, I saw Suge a while ago when I was at Death Row [offices], and he knows I’m venturing on and stuff. Even if he offered me a deal, if it was right, I might go that route. I’m just trying to get the best thing. This is my second time around. My first time, I came out in the midst of turmoil as far as Suge going to jail, Dre leaving, ‘Pac getting killed – and in the midst of that, [Necessary Roughness] was released with no type of marketing or promotion.
AllHipHop.com: I’ve always been intrigued by your album. In 1997, Death Row released more albums in one year, than they have in the last seven or eight. I had heard specifically, that your project was salvaged by DJ Premier because it was old material on the cutting room floor…
Lady of Rage: That’s news to me. I didn’t know all that. I don’t know if Premier saved the project. But I know Premier, was definitely one of the artists I wanted to work with. I wasn’t allowed to work with many of the producers I wanted to. I had to work with what I had.
AllHipHop.com: How does Necessary Roughness sit with you today?
Lady of Rage: I wish it could have gotten more exposure. Those lyrics on there…I feel if that whole album was remixed, and put out right now, it’d [do well]. I feel that I’m still a dope lyricist, and as far as females are concerned, if I’m not in the Top Three, there’s something wrong, and as far as males, if I’m not in the Top Twenty, lyrically [something’s wrong]. That’s how much I believe in my music. I could be under false pretense, but I don’t think so. If everybody could’ve heard Necessary Roughness, then they’d know, “Wow, she really is a dope MC.”
AllHipHop.com: This was 1997. “Afro Puffs” was three years prior. Why was the “strike while the iron’s hot” motto not used?
Lady of Rage: When I first came to Death Row, they told me my album was going to be the next album put out after The Chronic. Then they said Snoop’s, but after Snoop’s mine. Then came Above The Rim. So, I kept getting pushed back. I don’t know if it was a male thing or not. “Afro Puffs” I believe, could’ve gone platinum as a single. Also, when I write, I don’t write like Snoop and Daz and everybody like that. I don’t feel like writing in the studio ‘cause I don’t like a lot of people around me. I like to be at home, in my room. I was slower than the rest. I really don’t know.
AllHipHop.com: The chemistry with you and Dre was so right, but so minimal. Is there unreleased material from those days?
Lady of Rage: Oh no! Like I said, when I write – I don’t do anything extra. I do what I have to do, that’s it. If I die tonight, you wouldn’t get another album from Rage.
AllHipHop.com: One of the little known moments was the b-side to “Dre Day,” called “Puffin’ on Blunts and Drankin’ Tanqueray.” This freestyle with you, Tha Dogg Pound, and Dre was classic. Tell me about that moment…
Lady of Rage: Those days were just…I don’t know if magic is the word. There was just a vibe. Dre used to make beats, and I would always walk in and say, “I don’t like that beat” – from the gate. I was always the one complainin’. But when I walked in that day, and I heard that track, I was like, “I like that!” Blunts and Tanqueray were circulating, and we just did it. I’m at a loss for words. I think I got [The Quotable] in The Source that month for that. I’ve gotten that twice. The other was, “Microphone Pon Cok.”
AllHipHop.com: A lot of artists do crazy things to get kicked off labels. It’s rumored that you did a number on Death Row’s lobby. Is there any merit to that?
Lady of Rage: [laughs] Well… I don’t know if I did a number on it. I went up there one day to pick something up. I’d been going up there all the time. Suge was locked up at the time, things were run differently. When I got to the lobby, the guy there told me I needed an appointment to go upstairs. I was like, “I need an appointment? For what?” All I got was, “Things are different now.” I was insulted by that. I’m one of the artists, one of the reasons this office is here, I feel. I didn’t sell millions of records, but I was on those things. This is mine’s like Dre’s, Snoop’s, Suge’s, whatever. I said, “Can you go get the package for me?” When he went upstairs, I picked up something and I broke some things up, and really give them a reason for not lettin’ me in here. I never went back again until I couple of months ago. I was just mad. I was pregnant, I was mad, that was slap in the face.
AllHipHop.com: What was it like on the recent visit? And why would you go back to Death Row?
Lady of Rage: I went back because my daughter’s father works up there. I didn’t go back there for business or anything. I went up there for that. Suge was in the parking lot at the time. I hadn’t seen him since he got released. We spoke to each other like, “You look nice,” and that was it. No, “What the Hell you doin’ here?” None of that. That [lobby] incident, I don’t believe Suge had anything to do with it. I told him about it. I wrote him a couple letters – told him how I was upset about different things, and I didn’t wanna be on Death Row anymore. That was it. He said that whatever I wanted to do, he was with me.   

Be sure to check her;
www.myspace.com/officialladyofrage
Robin Yvette Allen, the Lady of Rage is a rapper best known for collaborations with several Death Row Records artists, including Snoop Doggy Dogg on the seminal album Doggystyle. Chubb Rock discovered Lady of Rage when she was working and living at Chung King Studios in New York. She subsequently had an uncredited appearance as Rockin' Robin on Chubb Rock's 1991 album The One. After she appeared on They Come in All Colors (The L.A. Posse, 1991, 1991 in music), Dr. Dre heard her on the album, and Suge Knight called her and convinced her to come to Los Angeles. She then appeared on several tracks from Dr. Dre's 1992 classic The Chronic album, and on Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle in 1993. In 1994, she had a hit single with "Afro Puffs" (from the soundtrack to Above the Rim). Her debut solo album, Necessary Roughness, was released in June of 1997 (see 1997 in music). She has been a hairdresser to members of Tha Dogg Pound. After the release of her album and a guest-appearance with Gang Starr alongside Kurupt ("You Know My Steez (Three Men and a Lady Remix)") in 1998, Rage left Death Row Records and the music industry generally to focus on acting, appearing in an episode of The Kenan & Kel Show. The Lady of Rage also went on to be featured in several television sitcoms. Most notably as Coretta Cox on the WB's "Steve Harvey Show" from 1996 to 2002. She also had a small part in Next Friday as Baby D, little big sister of Day Day's ex girlfriend. In 2000, she made another rapping appearance on Snoop Dogg's "Set It Off" on his album Tha Last Meal. In the coming years, Rage would once again disappear from the public eye. Her limited recording activity consisted of 2002 with a solo track "Unfucwitable" on Snoop Dogg Presents...Doggy Style Allstars Vol. 1 and the comical "Batman & Robin", which appeared on Snoop Dogg's Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$-album. Rage truly returned in 2005 when she started her own label, Boss Lady Entertainment, and creating a mixtape called From VA to L.A. She has also made appearances on Welcome to tha Chuuch - Da Album and Cali Iz Active.



Blu Lacez posted some tracks from ‘Rage’ here;
http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=134111.125
You can order her mix-tape here;
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AE8FOO/qid=1126447152/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-6669130-2020914?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

Ask 'Rage' about these four unreleased tracks;
-‘Introducing The Eargasm’
-‘Ride On The Eargasm’
-‘Rollin’ On The River’
-‘Late In The Midnight Hour’

And the rumoured "Blunt time" track with 2 Pac and Dr.Dre that later became a RBX track.

[Big_Ron]

What do you think about the current state of the rap game?

Would the rap game be any different than it is if Pac and Biggie were still here today?

Are you still in contact with any of the Outlawz?


 

[OG Snoopaveli]

Dubcnn did it again !!

[Digital Pimpin']

Damn Nima - you'll be interviewing 2Pac next

Get her to talk on the Death Row freestyle sessions.

[Anthony495]

1) ARE YOU GOING TO BE WORKING WITH GALI GOTTI?
2) ARE YOU GOING TO BE WORKING WITH DPG RBX?
3) WERE YOU GOING TO SIGN TO AFTERMATH BACKING 1998?
4) ARE YOU GOING TO BE WORKING WITH GEORGE CLINTON OR BOOTSY COLLINS?
5) HAVE YOU GOT ANY UNRELEASED MATERIAL WITH CHARLIE WILSON?
6) HOW MY SONGS DID YOU RECORD WITH 2PAC?
7) ARE YOU GOING TO BE WORKING WITH JEWELL IN NEAR FUTURE?
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENING WITH DEATH ROW?
9) ARE YOU PLANNING ANY MORE MIXTAPES?
10) WILL YOU BE FEATURED ON DOGG CHIT?

[geezy]

thanks 4 dis.
Aske her about her relationship with dre.
Ask her about the project she's doing with snoops wife.
ask her if she's looking for a major deal.
Ask her aif she's still on with her movie carreer.
Ask her if she's willin to work with d likes of pharrel nad kanye,producers dat can put her in d limelight ,coz dats what she needs she will shine on any beat.
Ask her is she why she cant ask for deal from peeps like dre,jay z or pharrel?
thanks.i can go on and on will ve to let others ask d rest.

[Tha Psycho Hustla]

1. how did she feel her debut deathrow album went?
2. when did she leave deathrow? &  why?
3. is she still kool with suge?
4. how did she get down with tha row?
5. when is she droppin some new shit?
6. does she plann to work wit dat nigga daz again?
7. does she still keep in contact with jewell or michell'e
8. does she still talk to DR.DRE?
9. what was it like working with 2pac?
10. what is her fondest memory of 2pac?
11. are there any unreleased songs still on deathrow? if so what sort of features?

wasn't there some negativity between her and pac at some point?

-T

Yeah because Pac felt like she was not a loyal person to the label because she would not diss Lil Kim and Bad Boy. She was cool with Kim.

i read in her interview pac said to her: "rage, i dont love big girls but i like u somehow" löl...str8 up 2pac.