Crustified Dibbs

Crustified Dibbs is a duo consisting of rapper R.A. the Rugged Man and producer Marc Niles. The only album thus far by the duo, Night Of The Bloody Apes, was never officially released. Nevertheless, the bootleg served as a perfect vehicle for Long Island’s Rugged Man to make a splash within the underground hip-hop scene. After a bidding war between record labels, R.A. was signed to Jive Records. The album features production from the likes of Erick Sermon, and D.I.T.C.’s Buckwild. Many rumors surrounding the shelving of this project have circulated over the years, but it’s believed to be due to lewd behavior of R.A. at the Jive offices (it’s well documented in “‘Ego Trip’s’ Book of Rap Lists,” that R.A. was accused of sexually harassing one of his female label-mates among other things) and the content of the record, which involved sex, gore, and extremely profane language, turned the label off.