Newcomer Chante Adams stars in one of Sundance’s biggest hits this year, “Roxanne Roxanne,” as one of the pivotal figures of 1980s hip-hop, Roxanne Shante. “It was a little nerve-wracking because I ...

A funny thing about Roxanne Roxanne, the new Roxanne Shanté biopic that went up on Netflix last week: The movie goes through the entire career arc that most music biopics go through, and for the ...

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 ...

Over the past few years, hip hop biopics have become a go-to movie genre. The most successful so far was by far Straight Outta Compton, which chronicled the rise of NWA, but other recent films like ...

Roxanne Shante is a pioneering female rapper who rose to fame during a time when it was unheard of for women to be in the rap game. Hailing from Queensbridge, New York, she made her mark early on as a ...

We rewind the clock and uncover the source to discover that, just like your relationship, it's complicated. The rap rivalry’s origin story, however, is just as fascinating as the Twitter storms that ...

The secret to becoming a hip-hop legend, according to Roxanne Shante, is clean clothes. She’s joking. But only half. In 1984, Shante was a 14-year-old amateur rapper living in the Queensbridge housing ...

During the “Roxanne Wars” of the mid-Eighties, a battle of words spilled across nearly 50 12-inch singles, captivating the earliest generation of hip-hop fans. With the first volley emerging in late ...

Newcomer Chante Adams stars in one of Sundance’s biggest hits this year, “Roxanne Roxanne,” as one of the pivotal figures of 1980s hip-hop, Roxanne Shante. “It was a little nerve-wracking because I ...