Afro Puffs is the first single released by The Lady of Rage in 1994 from the Death Row labeled Above the Rim: The Soundtrack.

The song was co-written with producer Delmar Arnaud, then known as Dat Nigga Daz, now known as Daz Dillinger.

The song samples “Love That Will Not Die” by Johnny “Guitar” Watson.

In an interview with Billboard, Rage broke down the making of the song:

That song almost didn’t happen. I just so happened to go to the studio that day and Dre was playing this beat. He was like, ‘You got something for that Rage? Let me hear it.’ I spit a rhyme that I had written a few days prior. I didn’t like [the song], but Dre was like, ‘Damn Rage, will you just shut the fuck up? It’s not even done yet.’ I still didn’t like it, but everybody else did. I asked Suge [Knight] to not put the song on the [‘Above the Rim’] soundtrack and he was like, ‘Alright Rage, we won’t do it.’

I was riding in the car with Suge’s wife and I told her, ‘I’m so glad they got rid of that song.’ And she said, ‘Girl, they didn’t take that song off the soundtrack.’ I had a fit! I said, ‘They’re going to ruin my career. That song can not be the one.’ My style was more east coast. I’m from Virginia and ‘Afro Puffs’ was this G-funk sound. Jimmy Iovine called me and told me to calm down because the song is such a hit. That became my claim to fame.