In this exclusive interview, Roxanne Shanté talks her first Grammy Award, why AI could never duplicate her, financial freedom ...

Roxanne Shante was DJ-ing at a party in 2016 when she noticed two women in the crowd waving their hands in the air. “I thought, I must be doing a hell of a job hosting,” Shante said. As it turns out, ...

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 ...

*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 ...

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In 1984, Lolita Shanté Gooden was just another 14-year-old living in New York’s Queensbridge projects. When she famously laid down the lyrics to “Roxanne’s Revenge”—an underground answer rap to ...

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 ...

Lolita Shanté Gooden, aka Roxanne Shanté, is a hip-hip icon, a living legend, if you will. Netflix has released Roxanne Roxanne, a biopic that chronicles Shanté’s humble beginnings in Queens, N.Y., in ...

Any real hip-hop head will recognize the name Roxanne Shanté, the rap-battle prodigy who rose to fame as an adolescent and set a precedent for future female MCs like Queen Latifah and Nicki Minaj. And ...

Roxanne Shanté will soon be the first solo female rapper to receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. According to the Grammy website, Shanté, along with Prince, Frankie Beverly and others will ...