Necessary Roughness is the only studio album by American hip-hop artist the Lady of Rage.

Necessary Roughness was largely produced by Daz Dillinger, with contributions from Easy Mo Bee and DJ Premier.

Necessary Roughness was the last Death Row album to be distributed by Interscope Records.

The Los Angeles Times wrote that "Rage delivers her lyrics with gale force and knocks out her tracks with rabbit-punch viciousness.

This 1990s hip-hop album–related article is a stub.