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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rah Digga Ready To Blow Up | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...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 rap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rah Digga Ready To Blow Up | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...next to her on a gray stoop. "I definitely want to make enough money to secure my future," she says, exhaling smoke from a Marlboro Light. "Rap is just a stepping stone. I want my own label and to watch other talent pay dues and suffer headaches like I used to." She laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rah Digga Ready To Blow Up | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

CHARGED. JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN, 56, Muslim cleric and onetime Black Panther formerly known as H. Rap Brown; with murder and aggravated battery after he allegedly shot at two sheriff's deputies, one of whom died of his wounds; in Atlanta. The officers were trying to serve Al-Amin with an arrest warrant. He is being sought nationwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 27, 2000 | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...Literally everything. From disco, rock, metal, reggae, rap, blues, jazz, progressive rock, techno, progressive jazz, alternative, new age, folk and even a little bit of country and western...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: HUPD: Harvard's in-house police fight parasites and make friends. | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

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