Highlights this week include Dionne Warwick holding court at The Apollo, indigenous Indonesian dancers  at the Asia Society ...

Roxanne Shanté is seated near the front row inside the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, where she’s minutes away from receiving a Grammy Lifetime Achie ...

Roxanne Shanté is seated near the front row inside the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, where she’s minutes away from receiving a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She’s accompanied by ...

I’m going to sit there and I’m going to think about little Roxanne Shanté who said, one day I’m going to get a Grammy. One day they’re going to know me. The world is going to know my name.

The book not only explores the careers of women in Hip-Hop, but it also takes a look at their impact on the musical genre. To quote Queen Latifah’s 1989 anthem, The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who ...

Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté, who pushed the art form forward as a teenage battle rapper in the 1980s, is set to become the first solo female rapper to take home a Grammy for lifetime achievement.

The moment was depicted in the 2017 Biopic Roxanne, Roxanne. The mother of two appeared on CBS Mornings to discuss her monumental career with Gayle King.

The Roxanne Wars fostered a new paradigm of diss records. Other multifaceted diss narratives, such as The Bridge Wars (initially between BDP and The Juice Crew), emerged, often driven by hip hop ...

The Roxanne Wars fostered a new paradigm of diss records. Other multifaceted diss narratives, such as The Bridge Wars (initially between BDP and The Juice Crew), emerged, often driven by hip hop ...

New York MC Roxanne Shanté, Berklee professor Prince Charles Alexander, and Boston hip-hop pioneer Edo G. will be inducted into the Hall Nov. 28 at a concert celebrating 50 years of hip-hop.

But I also knew about rappers like MC Lyte, Roxanne Shanté, Salt-N-Pepa, and JJ Fad because—similar to what Saweetie says in the four-part Netflix docuseries Ladies First: A Story of Women in ...

The release and success of 'Roxanne's Revenge' was largely down to Shante's visceral presence on the track; for a teenage girl, the way she confidently wrapped herself around her bars spoke to a ...