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Rap icon Roxanne Shanté earns a lifetime achievement Grammy
But Shanté made waves in 1984 with “Roxanne’s Revenge,” a response to the Brooklyn rap group UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne.” Her single sparked the Roxanne Wars, an early rap beef that ...
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Roxanne Shanté: from the Queensbridge Projects to being first solo female rapper to receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
she turned heads and ignited the famed “Roxanne Wars” with “Roxanne’s Revenge,” a daring retaliation to UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne.” The tune laid the groundwork for hip-hop’s diss ...