Roxanne Shanté

UK Fresh '86: Fresher's Ball

Profile and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 19 July 1986

Out of the subway and into the charts, hip hop is stronger than it's ever been, with dazzling new talents like LL Cool J and ...

Roxanne Shanté: The Queen Rocks On

Interview by Lucy O'Brien, New Musical Express, 15 August 1987

B-boys beware! ROXANNE SHANTÉ has returned from bambino bearing with a hit 'Have A Nice Day'. LUCY O'BRIEN meets the Queen Bee. ...

Cold Chillin' Records: Licensed To Chill

Report and Interview by Paolo Hewitt, John McCready, New Musical Express, 12 March 1988

Cold Chillin' Records was started in 1986 by Tyrone Williams. As manager of Marley Marl — a 23 year old producer, writer, arranger, and renowned New ...

Marley Marl: In Control, Volume 1 (Cold Chillin' 925 783)

Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 11 October 1988

MARLEY MARL'S forte comes in diversifications within a safe context. Firstly, by finding infectious hooks with which to lace his jams, such as a deep, ...

Roxanne Shanté: Queen of Queens

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 22 August 1989

Having burst through from Queens to become Queen of Rap, Roxanne Shanté's now moved to New Jersey. And in the new year it's Washington — ...

Roxanne Shanté: 'I Have Never Seen A Man Talk To An Ugly Woman. Never.'

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 7 October 1989

There is nothing that ROXANNE SHANTE won't rap about and no limit to who she disses. Here she talks to PAOLO HEWITT about men, music ...

Roxanne Shanté: Bad Sister ****

Review by 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 ...

Rakim, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté, and Other Rap Pioneers Celebrate Forty Years of Hip-Hop

Retrospective by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 3 May 2017

Old-school B-boys cold-lampin' at Disco Fever, c. 1979 ...