Where Are They Now? 9 Of Our Favorite Female Rappers From Back In the Day

Lady of Rage

You can call her Lady of Rage, but I’ve always thought of her as Baby D. You know, Baby D from Next Friday? Anyway, Lady of Rage became a sensation in the rap game after making appearances on two classic rap albums: The Chronic, and Doggystyle. But she stepped out on her own with success when she dropped “Afro Puffs,” and released her first album, Necessary Roughness. After all that success and those high profile collaborations, she left Death Row Records in ’98, and like MC Lyte, started focusing more on TV and films as well (remember her as Coretta Cox on the “Steve Harvey Show”?). But recently, she’s been trying to get back into music and has been doing tracks with Snoop Dogg again on some of his latest albums, touring with him (which she did in 2010), and releasing the album VA to LA in 2005. Funny thing is, the last time we saw her, she was doing a cypher on the BET Hip Hop Awards last year, so could we be expecting a comeback sometime soon??? Hope so…

Any female MCs that you wish would come back to the game? Who are your favorites?

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