The Lady of Rage

Robin Yvette Allen (born February 6, 1968), The Lady of Rage has been described as "one of the most skillful female MCs" with a "mastery of flow" and "hard-core lyrics".

Dr. Dre discovered the Lady of Rage after hearing the vocals she recorded for the L.A. Posse's album, They Come in All Colors (1991). She later appeared on several tracks on Dr. Dre's 1992 album The Chronic, and on Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle in 1993.

On July 26, 1994, the Lady of Rage released the hit single "Afro Puffs" (from the soundtrack to Above the Rim) which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart. She also made an appearance on Tha Dogg Pound's album Dogg Food on the track "Do What I Feel". Though she had made more than a dozen appearances on soundtracks as well as albums from her Death Row Records cohorts, the Lady of Rage didn't release her debut album until 1997. Her debut solo album, Necessary Roughness, was released in June 1997 and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard R&B Album chart and 32 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. Her solo album was originally called Eargasm, but it was continually pushed back - the album was meant to have been the next album on Death Row Records after The Chronic, and then after Doggystyle, before finally being released in 1997.

After the release of her album and a guest-appearance with Gang Starr alongside Kurupt ("You Know My Steez (Three Men and a Lady Remix)") in 1998, The Lady of Rage then went on to be featured in the sitcom The Steve Harvey Show on The WB as Coretta Cox, a recurring role she played from 1997 to 2000. She also had a role in Next Friday as Baby D, the sister of Day Day's ex-girlfriend. She also made appearances on Bigg Snoop Dogg Presents… Welcome to tha Chuuch: Da Album (2005) and Cali Iz Active (2006) in the song "Keep it Gangsta". In 2008, she performed with MC Lyte, Yo-Yo, and Salt-N-Pepa at the BET Hip Hop Awards. In the summer of 2010 she joined Snoop Dogg during his headlining set at the Rock the Bells festival concert series, along with Warren G, RBX, and Tha Dogg Pound for a performance of the Doggystyle album in its entirety.

In 2011, Rage was part of the group N'Matez, along with Daz Dillinger, Kurupt, and RBX. They released the track "Trajical".

Rage signed on to play herself in Dogg Pound 4 Life, a biographical film focusing on the rise of the 1990s rap group, Tha Dogg Pound and was pictured in an Instagram post with Daz Dillinger.

Rage also made an appearance on MC Eiht's 2017 album Which Way Iz West on the track "Heart Cold".

In May 2024, Tha Dogg Pound released their 9th studio album W.A.W.G. (We All We Got) with Rage appearing on track 9 "Who Da Hardest?" along with Snoop Dogg and RBX.

Discography Studio albums Necessary Roughness (1997)

Mixtapes VA to LA'' (2006)

Singles "Afro Puffs" (1994)

Filmography

Film + List of film credits Year Title Role Notes 1998 Ride Peaches 2000 Next Friday Baby D' 2001 Thug Life Ami 2005 Confessions of a Thug Seventy-Five 2011 The Cookout 2 Litter Control Officer Watkins TV movie 2018 Thriller Emma Page 2021 Judas and the Black Messiah Lady Panther 2024 Miss Cleo: Her Rise and Fall Youree "Miss Cleo" Harris TV movie

Television + List of television credits Year Title Role Notes 1994 Soul Train Herself Episode: "Tony! Toni! Toné!/Jonathan Butler/The Lady of Rage" 1997–2001 The Steve Harvey Show Coretta "The Ox" Cox Recurring cast: season 2–4, guest: season 5 1999 Kenan & Kel Yovanda Episode: "Three Girls, a Guy and a Cineplex" 2015 On Ten Phyliss Episode: "Pilot" 2016 Celebrity Family Feud Herself Episode: "Snoop Dogg vs. Sugar Ray Leonard/Laila Ali vs. George Hamilton" Unsung Herself Episode: "Kurupt" 2017 Who Killed Tupac? Herself Episode: "East Coast Vs. West Coast" & "Devil in a Red Suit" 2024 The Equalizer Bianca Silva Episode: "The Fight For Life"

Documentary + List of documentary film credits Year Title Role 2000 Straight from the Streets Herself 2010 My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop Herself Mics on Fire Herself