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

Shante’s 1985 R&B hit “Roxanne’s Revenge,” an answer record to UTFO ... Shante also paid her respects to Biz Markie, the ...

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 ...

Roxanne Shanté is widely thought to be one of the first female rappers with a solo hit — 1984’s “Roxanne’s Revenge” — and will soon be the first solo female rapper to receive a ...

“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 ...

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 Shanté (M), winner of the 2025 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, and Harvey Mason jr., CEO, the Recording Academy pose onstage at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony and ...

Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté is set to become the first solo female MC to receive the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Recording Academy recently revealed that the rapper ...

Saturday night, meantime, was a great showcase for Roxanne Perez. If it wasn't made abundantly clear by her record-breaking performance inside the Women's Royal Rumble, the two-time NXT Women's ...