On this day in 1992, pioneering MC Roxanne Shanté released her sophomore album The Bitch Is Back, a fearless and unapologetic project that cemented her place as one of hip-hop’s most influential ...

Learn about Roxanne Shanté, and the jam at The Atrium that was packed with rap legends. In 1984, a 14-year-old girl named Roxanne Shanté burst onto the Hip-Hop landscape and changed the way that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few artists can say they have stayed true to themselves in an industry that often demands reinvention, compromise and sacrifice. But Roxanne Shanté, the battle rap phenom who carved out her place in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roxanne Shante’s entry into the world of hip-hop was shaped by circumstances that were far different from the typical artist’s story. While many musicians start their careers out of passion, Shante’s ...

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 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 ...

*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 ...