“Yo yo Redman! What the fuck, man? Get the fuck off that punk shit! Get with that tough shit! You understand how we do..” -Hurricane G on Redman’s “Tonight’s Da Night time”
For a lot of Hip-Hop followers, the above intro was the primary time they heard Gloria “Hurricane G” Rodriguez on wax. Although it was three a long time in the past, that unforgettable voice making that arduous demand will without end be part of the Def Squad legacy and Hip-Hop historical past.
On this date in 2022, Hurricane G handed away in a hospice after an extended battle with lung most cancers. She was 52 years outdated.
G’s 1997 debut album All Lady, together with its lead single “Any individual Else” (which samples The Jones Ladies’ 1979 hit “You Gonna Make Me Love Any individual Else”) reached the highest 10 of the Scorching Rap Singles chart. The album additionally featured an look by fellow Hit Squad alums Das EFX. The Brooklyn native additionally labored with artists reminiscent of Diddy, Smif-N-Wessun, Thirstin Howl III, Tony Tocuh and the daddy of her daughter, EPMD’s Erick Sermon.
Sermon shared his reminiscences on the time of her passing on social media, saying, “My coronary heart is hardened in the present day. One among my good mates…. my oldest daughter’s mom handed away in the present day #HURRICANEGLORIA was additionally a legend in her personal proper within the Hiphop neighborhood,” Sermon wrote on Instagram. “One of many first puertorican feminine rappers She rapped with me. @redmangilla she paved the best way.”
