{"id":15041,"date":"2010-07-29T00:22:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T22:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=15041"},"modified":"2010-07-29T00:22:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T22:22:40","slug":"rah-digga-returns-with-a-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/rah-digga-returns-with-a-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rah Digga returns with a “Classic”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Highly regarded as one of the best female emcees to ever rip a mic, Rah Digga is set to return after a DECADE with her sophomore album, Classic, on September 14th.<\/p>\n

After years of riding with Busta Rhymes and his Flipmode Squad, her debut solo album (2000\u2032s Dirty Harriet), and an unproductive stint at J Records (whom shelved her 2004 album Everything Is a Story), Digga finally decided to strike out on her own and secured herself a deal with NY-based, independent label Raw Koncept. It was this deal that also led her to the album\u2019s sole producer, hip-hop veteran Nottz (Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Kanye West).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all Nottz production and all Rah Digga rhyming,\u201d she told XXL Magazine back in March. Although it wasn\u2019t their first time working together (Nottz produced five tracks on Dirty Harriet), Digga relates, \u201cLucas [from Raw Koncept] said you need to let Nottz do the whole album. And we argued and went back and forth, you know, I just couldn\u2019t see it at the time\u2026As we started recording, by the time I got to that tenth song, it got to the point where I couldn\u2019t even hear anybody else on the album.\u201d<\/p>\n

With just those 10 tracks, Classic is a gritty display of boom bap beats mixed with Digga\u2019s rugged rhymes. While the title could be considered an audacious move after years of silence, she couldn\u2019t help but give the album a title that it deserves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI named it that because to me, it\u2019s classic hip-hop at its finest, what everybody misses and what everybody claims they wish they heard more of,\u201d she told hip-hop blog The BoomBox. \u201cIt\u2019s just straight raw rhymes, raw beats, not saturated with guest appearances\u2013it\u2019s just authentic hip-hop.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely an album that [fans] can appreciate and has that classic \u201990s hip-hop that everybody misses or you just don\u2019t really get to hear on a mainstream level\u2026If it achieves mainstream success, I\u2019m all for it. But I\u2019m not compromising my sound or my style to do it on purpose.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Album track list after the jump.<\/p>\n

Via MCP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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1. The Book of Rashia
\n2. Check Me Boo
\n3. This Ain\u2019t No Lil\u2019 Kid Rap
\n4. Straight Spittin\u2019 IV
\n5. Classic
\n6. Solidified
\n7. Feel Good
\n8. Viral
\n9. Back It Up
\n10. You Got It<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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