Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté, who pushed the art form forward as a teenage battle rapper in the 1980s, is set to become the ...

This weekend is the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, where one of hip-hop’s pioneers will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement ...

Rapper Roxanne Shante will be the first female solo rapper to receive the Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement award.

Roxanne Shante reflects on her Hip-Hop legacy as she is set to become the first solo female rapper to receive a Lifetime ...

pioneering freestyle rapper Roxanne Shanté, gospel-music mainstay Dr. Bobby Jones, early English punk-rock firebrands the Clash, and — posthumously — Prince and Frankie Beverly.

Roxanne Shante was a rarity in the rap culture as a teenage girl who dominated rap battles from her home in New York’s famed Queensbridge Houses. From as early as the age of 14, Shante was ...

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The Recording Academy recently revealed that the rapper, who rose to popularity at the age of 14 with her hit single “Roxanne ...

“But here I am!” Shanté, 55, was 14 when she scored her breakthrough hit with 1984’s “Roxanne’s Revenge.” Having largely left her music career behind by the mid-1990s, she sounded ...