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Curated by Brian Turner (WFMU)

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Brian Turner
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GROUP IMAGE Heyaa

SOGGY Waiting for the War

G.O.A.T. AND YOUR MOM Quack Like a Duck

ANTISEEN Chic-a-Go Go

GENOCIDE

NINA SIMONE Feelings @ Montreaux

FAMILY at Glastornbury 1971

FREUR Doot Doot

TIGER B SMITH Tiger Rock

PAIN Pain

NOVOS BAIANOS

Collection: Roxanne Shanté - The Rap Lolita

The girl with the foul mouth hit the 1980's hip hop scene like a thunder.

Curated by Joana de Sousa

Total Runtime: 0:22:54

Roxanne Shanté (born Lolita Shanté Gooden on November 9, 1969) is an American hip-hop pioneer. Born and raised in the Queensbridge Projects of Queens, NYC, Shanté first gained attention through the Roxanne Wars and her association with the Juice Crew.

Shanté's career began at the age of fourteen when she entered the influential world of record producer Marley Marl, radio DJ Mr. Magic, and Tyrone Williams, who were talking about how UTFO had canceled its appearance at a show that it was promoting. Shanté offered to record an answer to UTFO's recent hit "Roxanne, Roxanne," which was about a woman who rejects the members of the group. The men agreed and the result was "Roxanne's Revenge," a confrontational and profane song in which Shanté assumed the role of Roxanne, dissing UTFO over a Marley Marl-produced instrumental (The official UTFO response to its own song was “The Real Roxanne,” with artists Elease Jacks and later Adelaida Martinez assuming the role of Roxanne and eventually recording under the same stage name as the song title). Shanté's version and the Real Roxanne's version sparked the Roxanne Wars and made Shanté a hip-hop star in the process. The single would go on to sell over 250,000 copies in the New York area alone. Despite the novelty of this "answer record," and despite the fact that teenaged Shante was swearing and using sexual imagery as raunchy as any male rapper, the fact that she was a talented rapper helped Gooden become more than a one-hit wonder. She was a natural at freestyling, pulling a rhyme out of nothing and making it work onstage. She has credited this skill to her childhood fascination with black comics. Of Nipsey Russell, she told The Independent Sunday, "We used to watch him and you'd come outside the next day and see if you could do the same thing. Eventually, I got so good at it I was able to pursue a career from it, making records in five or 10 minutes, just going in and doing it."

One of the founding members of the Juice Crew, most of her tracks would be produced by Marley Marl, with the exception of several songs on Shanté's last album, 1992's The Bitch Is Back.

As an MC, Shanté was renowned for her ability to freestyle entire songs. "Roxanne’s Revenge" was an example, reportedly written as it was recorded—in one take. However, the original version of the song was rerecorded after UTFO sued over the usage of its original backing track; the new version featured slightly different music with less profanity. People are most familiar with this version, which appears on the original 12-inch single released in 1984, with the original on the reverse side.

In 1988, Shanté and Rick James had a hit with "Loosey's Rap."

By the age of 25, Shanté was largely retired from the recording industry. She continued to make occasional guest appearances and live performances, as well as mentor young female hip-hop artists. She did the latter by making a cameo appearance on VH1's hip hop reality show Ms. Rap Supreme and gave rap-battle strategies to the finalists of that show. She also took part in a series of Sprite commercials during the late 1990s.

She returned to performing, and in 2008, her song "Roxanne's Revenge" was ranked number 42 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs; she re-recorded the song the following year.

Discography

Albuns
Bad Sister (1989)
The Bitch Is Back (1992)

Singles
"Roxanne’s Revenge" (1984)
"Queen of Rox (Shanté Rox On)" (1985)
"Runaway" (1985)
"Bite This" (1985)
"I'm Fly Shanté" (featuring Steady B) (1986)
"Def Fresh Crew" (1986)
"Pay Back" (1987)
"Have a Nice Day" (1987) (UK #58)
"Go On, Girl" (1988) (UK #55)
"Loosey's Rap" (with Rick James) (1988)
"Sharp as a Knife" (with Brandon Cooke) (1988) (UK #45)
"Live on Stage" (1989)
"Independent Woman" (1990)
"Go On Girl" (1990) (re-issue) (UK #74)
"Big Mama" (1992)
"Straight Razor" (1992)
"What's Going On" (with Mekon) (2000) (UK #43)
"Yes Yes, Y'all" (with Mekon) (2006)

Compilations
"Colors (soundtrack)" (1988)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxanne_Shant%C3%A9

http://www.answers.com/topic/roxanne-shant

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