Hip-Hop icon Roxanne Shanté reveals she lived with Rick James for six months at age 16 and now fights to protect young women ...

Roxanne Shanté talks her historic Hip-Hop career, from being the first battle rapper on record to surviving the industry’s wildest moments—including six months living with Rick James.

At 14, Lolita Shanté Gooden, better known as Roxanne Shante, was a fierce, freestyling rap prodigy. "It started with what I call the Nipsey Russell syndrome," Shante says, referring to the ...

For Entry 003 of his Mic Drops & Elbow Drops column, Carl Lamarre breaks down why women in hip-hop and wrestling are ...

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.

Battle rap prodigy Roxanne Shanté, born Lolita Shanté Gooden and then 14 years old, was carrying clothes to do laundry when a man yelled out the window to her — it was Marley Marl, a producer.

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 ...

Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté is set to become the first solo female MC to receive the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Recording Academy recently revealed that the rapper ...

Roxanne Shante gets her flowers and makes history at the same time. Rapper Roxanne Shante will be the first female solo rapper to receive the Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement award. The ...

In an era when the field was predominantly male in the ’70s and ’80s, these fearless wordsmiths, including MC Lyte, Roxanne Shante, Salt-N-Pepa and Queen Latifah emerged to transform it.

It’s pioneer Roxanne Shanté primping with her girls in a ladies’ room in Manhattan’s Latin Quarter, then the nerve center of the hip-hop’s club scene, minding her business when “The ...