Roxanne Shanté: Bad Sister ****
Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 8 February 1990
RECORDED BETWEEN laundry loads in 1985 when she was fourteen years old, Roxanne Shanté's first single, 'Roxanne's Revenge', was a spontaneous storm of sassy rap turmoil aimed at B boys who objectify fly girls.
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