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

Die, Rugged Man, Die (Nature Sounds, 2004)
Legends Never Die (Nature Sounds, 2013)
All My Heroes Are Dead (Nature Sounds, 2020)

Compilation albums

Legendary Classics Vol. 1 (Nature Sounds, 2009)

Unreleased albums

Night of the Bloody Apes (Jive, recorded 1992–1994)
American Lowlife (Priority, 1999)^{[citation needed]}

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"
2000 "Rap for real" (on Assassin album Touche d'Espoir)
2001 "Don't Wanna Fuck With" / "Even Dwarf Start Small"
2004 "Lessons" / "How Low"
2005 "Chains" (feat. Masta Killa & Killah Priest) / "Black And White" (feat. Timbo King)
2005 "Give it up" (on Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture feat. J-Live)
2006 "Uncommon Valor" (on Jedi Mind Tricks album Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell)
2007 "Renaissance 2.0" (on Hell Razah album Renaissance Child)
2008 "3 Kings" (on Big John album The Next Step feat. Kool G Rap)
2009 "Supah"
2009 "Posse Cut" (feat. Hell Razah, JoJo Pellegrino, Remedy & Blaq Poet)
2010 "3 Greats" (on Reef the Lost Cauze album Fight Music feat. Kool G Rap)
2010 "Nosebleed" (on Vinnie Paz album Season of the Assassin)
2010 "Mad Ammo" (on Celph Titled and Buckwild album Nineteen Ninety Now)
2010 "Return of The Renaissance" (on Hell Razah album Heaven Razah)
2011 "Body the Beat" (feat. Ruste Juxx & Rockness Monstah of Heltah Skeltah on album The Maticulous EP)
2011 "Crazy Man" (on Block McCloud Crazy Man EP feat. Celph Titled)
2011 "High Ranking" (on Timbo King album From Babylon To Timbuk2)
2011 "Animals" (on Clementino album "I.E.N.A.")
2012 "No Prints" (on Ruste Juxx and Kyo Itachi album "Hardbodie Hip Hop")
2012 "Crustified Christmas" (feat. Mac Lethal
2012 "Zig Zag Zig" (on Rampage Ep "Everyone Aint Loyal")
2012 "Coco Mango" remix with MF Doom
2012 "Open Relationship" with Psalm One
2012 "Razor Gloves" (on Vinnie Paz's album God of the Serengeti)
2013 "Thelonius King" with Blu & Tristate
2013 "The People's Champ" (feat. Rampage / prod. Apathy)

Guest appearances

"Break Walls Down" (WWF Aggression) (Chris Jericho Theme) (2000)
"Lose Your Mind" - (Space Jazz) (Michal Menert (ft. R.A. the Rugged Man) (2015)
"Sleeper Cell" (Digital Voodoo) (The R.O.C. ft. Redd, Whitney Peyton & R.A. the Rugged Man) (2017)
"Freedom Form Flowing" (Gift of Gab ft. R.A. the Rugged Man and A-F-R-O) (2018)
"Deal Went Bad" (Paki Dunn ft. R.A. the Rugged Man, D.V. Alias Khryst & PRAYAH) (2021)

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	Frank Hennenlotter (as François Pinky)
2004		A Star is Born	Jed I. Rosenberg
2009	Legendary Classics Volume 1	Posse Cut	Jed I. Rosenberg	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	Mike Quill	Brother Ali, Masta Ace
		Sam Peckinpah	Michael M. Bilandic Johnny Zito	Vinnie Paz, Sadat X
2014		Still Get Through The Day	Douglas Quill	Eamon
2014		Definition of a Rap Flow	RA The Rugged Man	Amalie Bruun
2015		Media Midgets	Douglas Quill
2015		Tom Thum	RA The Rugged Man	Tom Thum
2016		Bang Boogie	Gabe Gasparinatos
2016	N/A	Look What You Made Me Do	The Jokerr
2019	N/A	The Return	The Jokerr
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^[1]	Linn Marie Christensen Shane Alexander Caldwell	Ghostface Killah, Masta Killa, Kool G Rap, Xx3eme
		Hate Speech^[2]	Linn Marie Christensen Shane Alexander Caldwell

As featured artist
Year	Artist	Title	Director	Other featured artists
2001	Smut Peddlers	Bottom Feeders	RA 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	RA 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
2014	BIGREC	The Dumb Out	n/c
2015	Chill Rob G	Tell 'Em	Anthony DeRose
2015	Malik B. & Mr. Green (record producer)	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
2019	Snak the Ripper	Knuckle Sandwich	Stuey Kubrick
2019	Daddy-O (rapper)	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	n/c	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

References

^ R.A. the Rugged Man: Dragon Fire (Short, Action), The Circus Bazaar Company, 2022-03-15, retrieved 2022-11-12
^ Caldwell, Shane Alexander; Christensen, Linn Marie (2020-12-01), Hate Speech (Short, Musical), The Circus Bazaar Company, retrieved 2022-11-12

[1] R.A. the Rugged Man: Dragon Fire (Short, Action), The Circus Bazaar Company, 2022-03-15, retrieved 2022-11-12

[2] Caldwell, Shane Alexander; Christensen, Linn Marie (2020-12-01), Hate Speech (Short, Musical), The Circus Bazaar Company, retrieved 2022-11-12

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Discography
Studio albums	Die, Rugged Man, Die Legends Never Die All My Heroes Are Dead
Compilation albums	Legendary Classics Volume 1
Other songs	"Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story"
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