On this day in Hip Hop history, the story of one of the culture’s most fearless pioneers hit the screen as Roxanne Roxanne, the biographical film based on the life of Roxanne Shanté, was released on ...
The world got a strange and funky gift from two icons of completely different worlds in 1988—funk lord Rick James and Roxanne Shanté, the teenage battle rapper from Queensbridge. Their collaboration ...
*Forest Whitaker is a co-producer of “Roxanne Roxanne,” a feature about the Roxanne hip hop wars of the 1980s in New York. The story centers on Lolita Shante Gooden, a 14-year old rap prodigy from ...
Roxanne Shante’s name takes hip-hop heads back to the early days of hip-hop. As one of the first female rappers to make a significant impact on the genre, her rise to fame was a revolutionary show of ...
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