Robin Yvette Allen (born February 6, 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
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| 1998
| Ride
| Peaches
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| 2000
| Next Friday
| Baby D'
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| 2001
| Thug Life
| Ami
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| 2005
| Confessions of a Thug
| Seventy-Five
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| 2011
| The Cookout 2
| Litter Control Officer Watkins
| TV movie
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| 2018
| Thriller
| Emma Page
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| 2021
| Judas and the Black Messiah
| Lady Panther
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| 2024
| Miss Cleo: Her Rise and Fall
| Youree "Miss Cleo" Harris
| TV movie
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Television
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| 1994
| Soul Train
| Herself
| Episode: "Tony! Toni! Toné!/Jonathan Butler/The Lady of Rage"
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| 1997–2001
| The Steve Harvey Show
| Coretta "The Ox" Cox
| Recurring cast: season 2–4, guest: season 5
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| 1999
| Kenan & Kel
| Yovanda
| Episode: "Three Girls, a Guy and a Cineplex"
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| 2015
| On Ten
| Phyliss
| Episode: "Pilot"
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|rowspan="2"| 2016
| Celebrity Family Feud
| Herself
| Episode: "Snoop Dogg vs. Sugar Ray Leonard/Laila Ali vs. George Hamilton"
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| Unsung
| Herself
| Episode: "Kurupt"
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| 2017
| Who Killed Tupac?
| Herself
| Episode: "East Coast Vs. West Coast" & "Devil in a Red Suit"
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| 2024
| The Equalizer
| Bianca Silva
| Episode: "The Fight For Life"
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Documentary
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| 2000
| Straight from the Streets
| Herself
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|rowspan="2"| 2010
| My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop
| Herself
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| Mics on Fire
| Herself
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