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 ...

Rapsody is the third female rapper to win Best Melodic Rap Performance, following Lauryn Hill, who won the award in 1999 for ...

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 ...

In an unprecedented move that celebrates her monumental contributions to hip-hop, Roxanne Shanté has become the first solo female rapper to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious ...

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

Big Boi, Zaytoven participating in economics-focused financial literacy tour scheduled through Feb. 23 in Atlanta ...

rock producer/engineer Glyn Johns and rapper Roxanne Shante. He read an acceptance speech from the surviving members of The Clash, which concluded with their thanks to Chuck D for accepting the award ...

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Roxanne Shanté in Inglewood, Calif., in 2023.