Despite being born and raised in Detroit, Laws became best known as a part of the burgeoning West Coast gangster rap scene in the ... and was one of the first female rappers ever signed to Def ...

After having success as a member of the Sequence, an early female rap group, she re-emerged in the 1990s as a practitioner of sultry, laid-back R&B. By Clay Risen Angie Stone, a hip-hop pioneer in ...