RAH DIGGA LEAVES FLIPMODE SQUAD

After over a decade as the first lady of the Flipmode Squad, Rah Digga has decided to part ways with the Busta Rhymes led collective to purse other business ventures. She told Allhiphop.com, “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. 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.”

Digga has released one official album 2000’s Dirty Harriet and was poised to release a follow-up, Everything Is A Story, in 2004 but label politics got in the way. She remained up beat through the ups-and downs though. She said,

“I’m just constantly like a victim of politics so for me like everything just started becoming a story. Like, you know, why aren’t certain things transgressing for me? You know what, that’s another story, all right.”

While her rap career was at standstill, Digga has been trying to break in to Hollywood. In 2001 she starred in Thirteen Ghosts and the MTV musical Carmen: A Hip-Hopera, and she recently completed s straight to DVD project. Digga explained, “I have one [film] going straight to DVD that’s gonna film in April, between April and May. 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 of drug dealers in anybody’s hood and in the process of them getting ran down on, an FBI agent accidentally gets killed.”

Digga’s next album is tentatively titled Sucker Free and will be released exclusively via iTunes this summer.