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, ... When my mom died, all of a sudden I felt like I was going to die, right?

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 .

To quote Queen Latifah’s 1989 anthem, The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop, is a book that puts “Ladies First.”The new offering from journalist Clover Hope covers the history of Hip ...

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.

Roxanne Shante gets her flowers and makes history at the ... The moment was depicted in the 2017 Biopic Roxanne, Roxanne. The mother of two appeared on CBS Mornings to discuss her monumental ...

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 is the most famous exchange of diss records, with over 50 releases by 35 different artists. The Roxanne Wars The Roxanne saga was triggered by an “answer-back” record (a song which ...

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.

MC Lyte and dream hampton talk to Vogue about “Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop,” now streaming on Netflix.

Roxanne Shante. An undeniable pioneer of hip hop, period, is Roxanne Shante. ... Known as the 'Mother of the Mic', Sharon 'Sha-Rock' Green is considered to be the first female rapper.