Now Shanté’s story — with all the tragedy, joy and music that accompanied one of early rap’s most fascinating figures — is finally getting the show she deserves. “Roxanne Roxanne,” a ...

“Roxanne” is also the fourth most popular song globally on Apple Music, behind Lil Baby’s “Woah,” Travis Scott’s “Highest in the Room,” and Tones and I’s “Dance Monkey.

“Roxanne’s Revenge” received radio airplay — a remarkable feat considering the ambivalence toward rap at the time from music industry brokers and the public. Speaking to NBC News ...

for “Roxanne,” 94skrt. He’s been releasing music — and building a cult following — since 2016. Zervas released his first song, the trap-flavored “Don’t Hit My Line,” in 2016 and ...

Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté is set to become the first ... She continued, “I felt like my life was just a musical. Every block had music, everywhere you went there was a DJ,” adding ...

“The music found me,” she said. Soon enough, Shanté was battling men more than twice her age — and still winning. When she recorded the famous freestyle “Roxanne’s Revenge” with ...

Brian Rasic/Getty "Roxanne" might be a classic now, but one member of the Police didn't always think it would be a hit. In an interview with The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, Stewart Copeland revealed he ...

Drawing upon ambient, new age, dream pop, Medieval European choral music, and Hindustani singing, the album that follows feels like an emanation of that same spirit. As on her debut, Roxanne’s ...

Then, at 21, she retired, disenchanted with the music business, which had chewed her up and spat her out. Roxanne Shanté calls it life after hip-hop. At the age of 13 she was the rapper on a ...