NEW YORK — Nia Long plays Roxanne Shante's mother in a new docudrama on the rap pioneer's life, but when the actress and Shante sit down to chat in real life, their bond reveals itself to be ...

NEW YORK — Nia Long plays Roxanne Shante’s mother in a new docudrama on the rap pioneer’s life, but when the actress and Shante sit down to chat in real ...

Nia Long will not lose. Just a few weeks after ABC announced it was canceling Uncle Buck (after a single season) the 45-year-old beauty popped up on Roxanne Shanté’s Instagram page and revealed ...

Roxanne’s revenge was sweet indeed. Twenty-five years after the first queen of hip-hop was stiffed on her royalty checks, Dr. Roxanne Shante boasts an Ivy League Ph.D. – financed by a f… ...

When it was done, some 87 “Roxanne” tracks had been released, according to Shante. The artist — a mother of two grown children who now lives in Newark, NJ, runs an education nonprofit for ...

The dramatized story of Roxanne Shanté’s life is coming to a computer near you. Starring Nia Long, Mahershala Ali and Chante Adams, Netflix is releasing the biopic Roxanne, Roxanne in March ...

At 14, Roxanne Shanté become a revered rapper in New York and beyond. ... [Shanté's mother] had to be hard, no nonsense. One of her rules was nobody should be out past 9 p.m.

The first time you press play on Roxanne Shanté’s visionary hip-hop single “Roxanne’s Revenge,” you’re hearing it just as the artist did: with no idea about what’s coming next.

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.