Rouge (rapper)
Deko Barbara-Jessica Wedi (born 13 September 1992), professionally known as Rouge (/ruˈʒ/), is a South African rapper of Congolese heritage, born in Pretoria.[1] Her debut album The New Era Sessions, accompanied by a short film, received a South African Film and Television Award for Best Micro Budget Film.
Quotes
- “There’s nothing wrong with working with the new wave, it doesn’t lower your standard — in terms of where you are with your popularity and celebrity status. If anything, it grows and (expands) our hip-hop industry.”
- “That’s something so creative that doesn’t really happen anymore in the hip-hop space — they took the time to craft it and make it something interesting and creative and that’s why I know they’re going to be here [in the limelight] for a very long time,”
- “Hip-hop suffered so much because it came with this ego, as egotistical as our genre is... it got to the point where the music wasn’t interesting anymore. The sounds were exactly the same. That’s the beauty of collaboration, it gives songs a new life, a new feel and because the mainstreams (established artists) weren’t trying to work with new artists, it became stagnant.”
- “They are the ones who constantly introduce us to new people, to new rappers, to new vocalists,”
- South African rapper Rouge on the power of collaboration;By Lusanda Luthuli,Retrieved on 18 Feb 2021
- “I need a rematch, I can’t live with this”
- “Thanks! It’s been all work already! We’ve just had shows, appearances, we’re working on music- I release my single Party a few weeks ago too. And now things are picking up, Cassper himself has already given me some of his personal endorsements, and so have other rappers in the industry. I am starting to see my name growing”
- “I want to be known and heard. Party was actually the second or third song I’ve ever recorded so I’d like to spend more time in the studio working on material. There is an album in the works which should be dropping, hopefully, around September”
