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 ...

Roxanne Shante is not only an icon of the genre’s past but a force in its present and future. Her message to the next generation of hip-hop artists is clear: success is about embracing the journey, ...

Roxanne Shanté is seated near the front row inside the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, where she’s minutes away from receiving a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She’s accompanied by her Rock ...

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. “I ...

*Nia Long plays Roxanne Shante’s mother in a new docudrama that chronicles the rap pioneer’s humble beginnings and rise to stardom. The two women didn’t know each other before the movie started, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

Well, it took ’em a minute, but the NYDN seems to be bowing before the Slate story that debunked much of their Roxanne Shante article. A correction ran in the paper today, and they’ve amended the ...