The biopic Roxanne Roxanne, available March 23 on Netflix, tells the story of the young woman at the centre of it all. Shante grew up in a Queensbridge, New York City housing project.

The song, an answer to rap group U.T.F.O.’s B-side “Roxanne, Roxanne” was produced by Queens pioneer Marley Marl, and it was about as stark and fearless as early dis records ever were.

Long plays Shante’s mother Ms. Peggy Gooden and Ali plays her abusive boyfriend Cross. Roxanne was the only lady of Marley Marl’s Juice Crew and the first woman to have a rap record.

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It all dates back to one of the first female rappers, Roxanne Shanté.Her first song inspired an estimated 55 "response" tracks – and a cornerstone of hip-hop history, the Roxanne Wars.

In 1984, a 15-year-old Queens rapper named Lolita Shanté Gooden took on the rap name Roxanne Shanté and released the single "Roxanne's Revenge." The song, an answer to rap group U.T.F.O.'s B ...

Battle rap prodigy Roxanne Shanté, born Lolita Shanté Gooden and then 14 years old, was carrying clothes to do laundry when a man yelled out the window to her — it was Marley Marl, a producer.

A funny thing about Roxanne Roxanne, the new Roxanne Shanté biopic that went up on Netflix last week: The movie goes through the entire career arc that most music biopics go through, and for the ...

Roxanne's revenge was sweet indeed.Twenty-five years after the first queen of hip-hop was stiffed on her royalty checks, Dr. Roxanne Shante boasts an Ivy ...

Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté, who pushed the art form forward as a teenage battle rapper in the 1980s, is set to become the first solo female rapper to take home a Grammy for lifetime achievement.