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...clearly hasn't earned the big bucks yet. But she's well positioned. Imperial, a thumping single off her album, is in the Top 20 on the Billboard rap charts. Busta Rhymes calls her "unquestionably the best female MC." He's almost right. Lauryn Hill is still the best. But on Dirty Harriet, Rah Digga proves herself to be the best to come along since Hill. Rah's voice is rough and low; at times she sounds like a man. Her beats are strong too: her songs hit the listener like middleweight champs. Her lyrics can be playful or boastful...
...Digga is supposed to be part of that fantasy world. After all, she's the MC of the moment. She's a Busta Rhymes protege (he plugged her shamelessly on air at the Grammys); she has recorded cameos alongside some of the biggest acts in rap (for example, on the song Cowboys on the Fugees' 1996 album The Score); and her hard-hitting, long-awaited debut album, Dirty Harriet (Elektra), is due out April 4. From Eve to Lil' Kim, female rappers are hot right now. You can easily imagine Rah, in the near future, taking her place with...
...would do anything to see Busta Rhymes 'cause he's the dillio...
...know who Puff Daddy is," he continued, referring to the popular and controversial rap artist. "I thought Busta Rhymes had a very nice dress...
...coolest new additions to the Marley catalog is the just-released CD Chant Down Babylon (Tuff Gong/Island). The album features duets with Marley and some of today's best hip-hop performers, including Lauryn Hill and Busta Rhymes. The hip-hoppers supply new vocals, while Marley's are drawn from alternate takes in decades-old recording sessions. "We got the idea, well, from Daddy basically," says Marley's son Stephen, who served as executive producer. "It was one of his dreams to get to the urban youth of America...