Newark,
New Jersey rapper Rah Digga has officially departed from Busta Rhymes’ Flipmode
Squad to pursue other business ventures. The
former first lady of Flipmode, Rah Digga first signed with Flipmode a decade ago
and has only released one solo album since. Her
debut album, Dirty Harriet, was released in 2000 and was followed by several
mixtape appearances, but another album never materialized. “We’ve
been together for damn near a decade and I haven’t had any success you know,
coming out with a follow up album and I just felt like it was time to move on
and make different decisions,” Rah Digga told AllHipHop.com. “We are
at this stage, Flipmode as a crew, everyone’s been pretty much focused on
their own endeavors. Busta’s doing his thing on Aftermath. I mean it was
already established before he even got down with Aftermath, it wasn’t gonna
be a Flipmode movement over there.” Although
Rah Digga’s mixtape appearances were an excellent way of keeping her name
alive in the industry, it was no match to having another solo album released.
“I
was working on my album at J Records that was supposed to be released in 2003
and then s**t went awry with them, so after that I was just pretty much keeping
my buzz going in the mixtape circuit. After awhile, I just got a little tired
of that. I felt like I was just giving away rhymes and doing whole albums and
not making a dime from it,” Rah Digga said.During
her ten years as a member of the Flipmode Squad, Rah Digga went on to tackle other
ventures including acting. In
2001, Rah Digga appeared in the horror movie Thirteen Ghosts and the MTV
musical Carmen: A Hip-Hopera. Rah
Digga has continued to showcase her talents as an actress and later this year
she will star in two films that begin filming in April and October. “I
have one [film] going straight to DVD that’s gonna film in April, between
April and May,” Rah Digga told AllHipHop.com. “I’m gonna be playing
an FBI agent. The premise of the film is it’s kind of like one of those Training
Day
flicks where you got crooked cops and it revolves around these group ofdrug dealers in anybody’s hood and in the process of them getting ran down
on, an FBI agent accidentally gets killed.” Rah
Digga also cleared up a rumor that she has joined an all female rap group being
formed by Remy Ma, Shawnna and Jacki-O. “Both
Remi and Shawnna is my peoples and we all represent the Murda Mami’s [female
coalition] together, but that doesn’t have anything to do with me leaving
the Flipmode,” Rah Digga told AllHipHop.com. “What I gather from a lot
of blogging and stuff that I read [is] people are wondering why I didn’t
join the group, being that we all represent Murda Mami’s, but that’s
not anything of interest to me. They just my peoples.” Despite
the label drama and her pursuit of acting, Rah Digga has not forgotten about rapping.During
the next few weeks, she will be holding a competition on her website, www.rahdiggamusic.com,
to find an artist to appear on her upcoming mixtape. Rah
Digga’s next album is titled Sucker Free and will be released exclusively
via iTunes this summer.