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 ...

The year is 1984, and the ends of your fat laces are freshly tucked inside your suede Pumas. You’ve just finished asking your father to buy a large piece of linoleum flooring so that you can practice ...

The year was 1984. The location was the Queensbridge Houses, a public housing project in New York City. Battle rap prodigy Roxanne Shanté, born Lolita Shanté Gooden and then 14 years old, was carrying ...

Rapper Roxanne Shanté has a theory about why women in hip-hop now wield not only massive popularity, but respect. “(The music industry) is able to see that female rappers are worth money. They are ...

Roxanne Shanté, who made history as the first solo female MC in hip hop in the 1980s, made history again last week as the first solo female rapper to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ...

The new Netflix film chronicles the rapper's early career. Roxanne Shante Smells Her Flowers With 'Roxanne Roxanne' Biopic In the 1980s, as hip-hop was budding in the streets of New York City, a ...

It looks like there is a Roxanne Shanté biopic in the works and we are here for it. The Sundance Institute announced that a Michael Larnell film about the hip-hop legend—Roxanne Roxanne—had been ...