Gloria Rodríguez, better known by her stage name

Stage name

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 Hurricane G, is an American rapper

Rapping

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 of Puerto Rican

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 descent. Her 1997 single release Somebody Else charted at #10 by Billborad Magazine on Hot Rap Singles, and at #54 on their Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.

Background

She was born in Brooklyn

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, New York

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. She was the Hit Squad

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's first female member, and made guest appearances on albums by Keith Murray, Redman, Xzibit

Xzibit

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, Delinquent Habits

Delinquent Habits

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, Funkdoobiest

Funkdoobiest

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, the Cocoa Brovaz, and others. She also appeared on Puff Daddy's track "P.E. 2000". Her much-delayed debut album

Album

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, All Woman

All Woman (album)

All Woman is the first and only studio album by Hurricane G, released on September 16, 1997 through Jellybean Benitez's H.O.L.A. Recordings....

, appeared in 1997.

Hurricane G has a daughter by Erick Sermon

Erick Sermon

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 (of EPMD

EPMD

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 fame) named Lexus Sermon.

Discography

• All Woman
  All Woman (album)
  All Woman is the first and only studio album by Hurricane G, released on September 16, 1997 through Jellybean Benitez's H.O.L.A. Recordings....
  
  (1997)

Singles

• "Padre Nuestro (Our Father)" on Red Hot + Latin: Silencio = Muerte
• Somebody Else
• 2004 feature on Tony Touch
  Tony Touch
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   The Reggaetony album along with SONI
  Soni
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   Soni

Note

In her book New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (Palgrave Macmillan 2003), Raquel Z. Rivera uses the Spanish spelling Rodríguez.

External links

• [ Hurricane G at Allmusic.com]