Roxanne Shanté talks her historic Hip-Hop career, from being the first battle rapper on record to surviving the industry’s wildest moments—including six months living with Rick James. She even weighs ...

Hip-Hop icon Roxanne Shanté reveals she lived with Rick James for six months at age 16 and now fights to protect young women from exploitation in the entertainment industry. “I was only 16 years old ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This weekend is the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, where one of hip-hop’s pioneers will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the culture. Roxanne Shanté is widely thought ...

*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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biz Markie in 1988. (Credit: David Corio/Redferns) Roxanne Shanté is listening to her Juice Crew partner Masta Ace talk about ...

Roxanne Shante gets her flowers and makes history at the same time. Rapper Roxanne Shante will be the first female solo rapper to receive the Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement award. The trailblazing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...