Rah Digga discusses her only memory with Eminem, Outsidaz.
In 2019, a documentary called “Can’t Forget New Jersey” was released which is on the detailed history of the hip-hop culture in the garden state. It included interviews with some of Hip-Hop’s biggest names like Redman, Lauryn Hill, Nate Banks, and more. Now extra footage from the film surfaces where Rah Digga talks about the time when Eminem was with the Outsidaz group.
“Eminem came around before we were all signed,” says Rah Digga. “D12’s Bizarre was actually the first Detroit homie down with the crew (Outsidaz). At that time everybody had to come to New York, it felt like if you could make it to NY, you can make it anywhere. At that time NY was the dominating force in Rap Music. If you wanted to be somebody, you had to go through Trenches in New York. So when we came out from Detroit, they used to come and stay at the Outhouse. Eminem did that a lot. There are so many old cassettes with lost Eminem verses and things like that. I wasn’t really at the Outhouse that much, I was there because they were my Rap crew but the Outhouse was really the trap, So I had to keep my distance.”
She continues, “I remember one event by Wu-Tang clan, we went as a crew and we all got on stage and this was my only memory of connecting with Eminem. He was running with the dudes but I remember this particular day, I felt I had to extra show and prove because I was a girl, and I sensed from Eminem that he had to extra show and prove because he was white. I don’t know if he remembers this, but that was something else, that struck out to me, and that’s one of my vivid memory about Eminem.”
Before joining the Outsidaz, Rah Digga was a member of the hip hop group Twice the Flavor, which led to an appearance on the Fugees’ album The Score’s single “Cowboys.” She was discovered at the Lyricist Lounge by Q-Tip, who introduced her to Busta Rhymes and invited her to join his Flipmode Squad. She’s been featured on a number of Busta Rhymes albums. Dirty Harriet, her debut solo album, was released in 2000 and included Busta Rhymes and Eve.
When Young Zee and Pace Won each recorded rhymes with Bizarre for the ‘Amityville’ single on Eminem’s big label sophomore, The Marshall Mathers LP, a split emerged between Eminem and Tha Outsidaz. Pace Won and Young Zee’s rhymes were deleted from the tune when Dr. Dre complained that Marshall had too many collaborators on the album.
Now recently Az Izz, a member of the Outsidaz group disses Eminem with his new song called “What I Can’t Say“.
Digga is most famous as a Flipmode Squad long-time member of Busta Rhymes hip hop group. In the book How to Rap she was called “one of the MCs in hip-hop, one of the most prominent MCs of all music.”
