R.A. the Rugged Man discography

R.A. the Rugged Man is an American hip hop artist based in Suffolk County, Long Island. His discography consists of three commercial studio albums, two unreleased albums, one compilation album, numerous physical singles, and many guest appearances on other artists' tracks.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details
Die, Rugged Man, Die
Legends Never Die
  • Released: April 30, 2013
  • Label: Nature Sounds
  • Format: CD, LP, cassette, digital download
All My Heroes Are Dead
  • Released: April 17, 2020
  • Label: Nature Sounds
  • Format: CD, LP, cassette, digital download

Compilation albums

Title Album details
Legendary Classics Vol. 1
  • Released: October 27, 2009
  • Label: Green Streets
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download

Unreleased albums

Title Album details
Night of the Bloody Apes
  • Released: Unreleased
  • Label: Jive
  • Format: CD
American Lowlife
  • Released: Unreleased
  • Label: Priority
  • Format: CD

Singles

  • 1993 "Bloody Axe"
  • 1994 "Bloodshed Hua Hoo"
  • 1996 "50.000 Heads" (feat. Sadat X) / "Smithhaven Mall"
  • 1997 "Till My Heart Stops" (feat. Agallah) / "Flipside" (both later released on Soundbombing)
  • 1999 "Stanley Kubrick" (on Soundbombing II) / "What da Fuck"
  • 2001 "Don't Wanna Fuck With" (feat. Havoc) / "Even Dwarfs Started Small"
  • 2004 "Lessons" / "How Low"
  • 2005 "Chains" (feat. Masta Killa & Killah Priest) / "Black and White" (feat. Timbo King)
  • 2006 "Uncommon Valor" (on Jedi Mind Tricks album Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell)
  • 2007 "Renaissance 2.0" (ft. Timbo King & Tragedy Khadafi on Hell Razah album Renaissance Child)
  • 2009 "Supah"
  • 2009 "Posse Cut" (feat. Hell Razah, JoJo Pellegrino, Remedy & Blaq Poet)
  • 2010 "Mad Ammo" (on Celph Titled and Buckwild album ft. FT Nineteen Ninety Now)
  • 2011 "Body the Beat" (on Maticulous album ft. Ruste Juxx, Rock from The Maticulous EP)
  • 2011 "Crazy Man (Straitjacket Remix)" (on Block McCloud Crazy Man EP
  • 2011 "High Ranking" (on Timbo King album From Babylon ToTimbuk2)
  • 2012: "Zig Zag Zig" (on Rampage EP "Everyone Aint Loyal")
  • 2012 "Crustified Christmas" (feat. Mac Lethal)
  • 2012 "Coco Mango" remix with MF Doom
  • 2012 "Open Relationship" with Psalm One
  • 2013 "Thelonius King" with Blu & Tristate
  • 2013 "The People's Champ" (feat. Rampage / prod. Apathy)
  • 2014 "The Dumb Out" (on BIGREC album Doomsday)[1]
  • 2015 "The Greatest" (on Marcella Puppini album Everything Is Beautiful)[2]
  • 2016 "Bitch Slap" (on Reks album The Greatest X)[3]
  • 2016 "Industry Outcasts" (on Sadat X album Agua)[4]

Guest appearances

  • "Break Walls Down" (WWF Aggression) (Chris Jericho Theme) (2000)
  • "Rap for Real" (on Assassin album Touche d'Espoir) (2000)
  • "Bottom Feeders" (on Smut Peddlers album Porn Again) (2001)[5]
  • "Homecoming Queen" (on Eastern Conference All Stars II) (2001)[6]
  • "On the Block (Golden Era)" (on Soundbombing III feat. L. Dionne) (2002)[7] / Die, Rugged Man, Die
  • "Kill It" (on D&D Project II feat. Agallah, Channel Live & Craig G) (2002)[8]
  • "Brawl" (on Eastern Conference All Stars III) (2002)[9] / Die, Rugged Man, Die
  • "Betcha Life" (on High & Mighty album Highlight Zone) (2003)[10]
  • "Ring Kings" (on HoStyle album One Eyed Maniac) (2004)[11]
  • "Give it Up" (on Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture feat. J-Live) (2005)
  • "Dirty Money" (on El Axel album It Is What It Is) (2007)[12]
  • "Pignose" (on Matlock album Moonshine) (2007)[13]
  • "3 Kings" (on Big John album The Next Step feat. Kool G Rap) (2008)
  • "Nosebleed" (on Vinnie Paz album Season of the Assassin) (2010)
  • "Return of the Renaissance" (on Hell Razah album Heaven Razah) (2010)
  • "Razor Gloves" (on Vinnie Paz's album God of the Serengeti) (2012)
  • "No Prints" (on Ruste Juxx and Kyo Itachi album "Hardbodie Hip Hop") (2012)
  • "Smells Like" (on Jarren Benton album My Grandma's Basement) (2013)[14]
  • "Hold UP" (on Snowgoons album Black Snow) (2013)[15]
  • "Suffolk's Most Wanted" (on Diabolic album Fighting Words) (2014)[16]
  • "House of Games 2" (on Locksmith album A Thousand Cuts) (2014)[17]
  • "Floating Away (Remix)" - Wrekonize feat. R.A. + Jarren Benton) (2014)[18]
  • "And God Said to Cain" (on Jedi Mind Tricks album The Thief and the Fallen) (2015)[19]
  • "Tell 'Em" (on Chill Rob G album Chilled Not Frozen)[20]
  • "Lose Your Mind" - (Space Jazz) Michal Menert (2015)
  • "Dark Streets" (on Malik B. album Unpredictable)[21]
  • "Good Villains Go Last" (on Czarface album Every Hero Needs...) (2015)[22]
  • "Back on Wax" (on Wax Taylor album By Any Beats Necessary)[23] (2016)
  • "Baba Barz" (on Psycho Les album Dank God, Vol. 1) 2016[24]
  • "Modern Slave" (on Chinese Man album Shikantaza) (2017)
  • "Sleeper Cell" - (Digital Voodoo) The R.O.C. ft. Redd, Whitney Peyton (2017)
  • "Dirty Old Man" (on King Magnetic album Everything Happens 4 a Reason) (2017)[25]
  • "Freedom Form Flowing" - Gift of Gab ft. A-F-R-O (2018)
  • "Siegelsbach" (on Snowgoons album Gebrüder Grimm) (2018)[26]
  • "Do It Again" (on Whitney Peyton album Iridescent) (2018)[27]
  • "Stress" (on Daddy-O album From My Hood 2 U) (2019)[28]
  • "Air Strikes" (on Four Owls album Nocturnal Instinct) (2020)[29]
  • "Sleeping Limb" (on The KickDrums album Blurred Colors) (2020)[30]
  • "Arrest the Government" (Scrooge Owens ft. R.A., Mad Squablz, Napoleon)[31]
  • "Know the Gospel (Remix)" iNTell, LDontheCut, Nuke LeFLeur (2021)[32]
  • "Glass Idols" (on Reverie album No Chaser) 2022[33]
  • "Stereo (Remix)" (Delphi)[34]

Videos

As lead performer
Year Album Title Title Director Other featured artists
1994 Night of the Bloody Apes Blooshed Hua Hoo Frank Henenlotter
2000 Die, Rugged Man, Die I Should'a Never Frank Hennenlotter

(as François Pinky)

2004 Lessons
A Star is Born Jed I. Rosenberg
2009 Legendary Classics Volume 1 Posse Cut Hell Razah, JoJo Pellegrino, Remedy, Blaq Poet
2012 N/A Crustified Christmas n/c Mac Lethal
2013 Legends Never Die The People's Champ Brood Baby
Learn Truth Clay Patrick McBride Talib Kweli
Holla-Loo-Yuh Mike Quill Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko
The Dangerous Three Brother Ali, Masta Ace
Sam Peckinpah Michael M. Bilandic

Johnny Zito

Vinnie Paz, Sadat X
2014 Still Get Through The Day Douglas Quill Eamon
Definition of a Rap Flow RA The Rugged Man Amalie Bruun
2015 Media Midgets Douglas Quill
Tom Thum RA The Rugged Man Tom Thum
2016 Bang Boogie Gabe Gasparinatos
N/A Look What You Made Me Do The Jokerr
2019 The Return
2020 All My Heroes Are Dead Legendary Loser Jonas Govaerts
Wondering (How to Believe) Douglas Quill David Myles (musician)
All My Heroes Are Dead

(The Introduction)

Jonas Govaerts

The Jokerr

Enkrypt Los Angeles

Gotta Be Dope The Jokerr A.F.R.O., DJ Jazzy Jeff
All Systems Go Jonas Govaerts

Jaak De Digitale

N/A Wet Ass P-Word

(WAP Remix)

Street Heat
2021 All My Heroes Are Dead Who Do We Trust ? Immortal Technique
E.K.N.Y. (Ed Koch New York)

(B.K.N.Y. Mix)

Inspectah Deck, Timbo King
Golden Oldies Douglas Quill Slug (rapper), Eamon
First Born n/c Novel
N/A Montero (Lil Nas X Remix) Sadi Kantürk
2022 All My Heroes Are Dead Malice of Mammon David Sakolsky Chuck D
Dragon Fire[35] Linn Marie Christensen

Shane Alexander Caldwell

Ghostface Killah, Masta Killa, Kool G Rap, Xx3eme
Hate Speech[36] Linn Marie Christensen

Shane Alexander Caldwell

As featured artist
Year Artist Title Director Other featured artists
2001 Smut Peddlers Bottom Feeders The Rugged Man
2008 Hell Razah Renaissance 2.0 n/c Tragedy Khadafi, Timbo King
2010 Jedi Mind Tricks Uncommon Valor Tom Vujcic
The DRP Dem Hoes n/c Slumlord
Vinnie Paz Nosebleed Ethan Blum Amalie Bruun
Celph Titled & Buckwild Mad Ammo Jed I. Rosenberg
2011 Maticulous Body the Beat Nicholas Heller

Houston Yang

Ruste Juxx, Rock of Heltah Skeltah
Block McCloud Crazy Man

(Straightjacket Remix)

Mark Carranceja Celph Titled
Timbo King High Ranking Ethan Blum

RA The Rugged Man Jed I. Rosenberg

Ruste Juxx & Kyo Itashi No Prints Gustav
Hell Razah Return of the Renaissance Yoni Arava
2012 Psalm One Open Relationship The Rugged Man
Klee MaGoR Armz Economy Pasha Kulakov Benny Brahmz
Clementino Animals Valerio Suarez
Rampage Zig Zag Zig n/c
2013 Blu Thelonious King Nicholas Heller

Ruffmercy

Tristate
2014 Locksmith House of Games 2 Brian Storm

Locksmith

BIGREC The Dumb Out n/c
2015 Chill Rob G Tell 'Em Anthony DeRose
Malik B. & Mr. Green Dark Streets Mr. Green Amalie Bruun
2016 Marcella Puppini The Greatest Infinate Ear
Reks Bitch Slap Myster DL

Munchdawg

Sadat X Industry Outcast's Will Tell

Brian Delaney

Thirstin Howl III
Kool Savas Wahre Liebe Kool Savas

Thaizzier Mouzza

Psycho Les Ba Ba Barz Grade A
2017 Gift of Gab Freedom Form Flowing The Jokerr A.F.R.O.
2018 Snowgoons Siegelsbach SirQLate

Gigo Flow

R.O.C. Sleeper Cell [37] Redd, Whitney Peyton
2019 Snak the Ripper Knuckle Sandwich Stuey Kubrick
Daddy-O Stress Andre Cole
2020 Scrooge Napoleon Arrest the Government Mo Stafford Napoleon Da Legend, Mad Squablz
The Four Owls Air Strike The Astroknight
The Kickdrums Sleeping Limb Tillavision
2021 iNTeLL Know the Gospel MrHawkins
2022 Reverie & Louden Glass Idols Reverie
2023 Delphi Stereo (Remix) Anja Ullberg

The Jokerr Maja Kin

Reverie
Cameo only
Year Artist Title Director Other featured artists
1993 Yaggfu Front Busted Loop n/c
2004 Masta Killa Old Man RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard
2006 Sadat X Throw The Ball Peter Agoston
2007 Havoc I'm The Boss n/c
2012 Nova Rockafeller & Ruste Juxx Procastinatin Mike Quill (also editor)
As director
Year Artist Title Other featured artists
2012 Idle Warship Driving Me Insane

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