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Greatest Hits: Released: September 12, 1995 [2] Label: Cold Chillin' Formats: CD, LP, Cassette — The Best Of Cold Chillin': Roxanne Shante: Released: October 9, 2001 [3] Label: Landspeed Records; Formats: CD, LP — "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
She returned to performing, and in 2008, her song "Roxanne's Revenge" was ranked number 42 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. [10] Shante re-recorded the song the following year. In an interview with EmEz in 2015, she said that she had just been proposed to and that she had previously been married. [ 11 ]
The most popular response to UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne” came from 14-year-old rapper Lolita Shante Gooden, who took the name Roxanne Shante when she teamed up with producer Marley Marl for ...
"Roxanne's Revenge" is the debut single by American rapper Roxanne Shante. It was produced by a then unknown Marley Marl and released in 1984 through the independent label Pop Art Records. In the song, a 14-year-old Roxanne Shante, whose real name is Lolita Shanté Gooden, responds to UTFO 's hit song " Roxanne, Roxanne ".
UTFO (an abbreviation for Untouchable Force Organization) was an American hip hop group from Brooklyn, New York City. [1]The group consisted of Kangol Kid (born Shaun Shiller Fequiere; August 10, 1966 – December 18, 2021), Educated Rapper (EMD) (born Jeffrey Campbell; July 4, 1963 – June 3, 2017), Doctor Ice (born Fred Reeves on March 2, 1966), and Mix Master Ice (born Maurice Bailey on ...
Roxanne Shanté's hit “Roxanne’s Revenge” received radio airplay — a remarkable feat considering the ambivalence toward rap from music industry brokers in 1984.
The Juice Crew was an American hip hop collective made up largely of Queensbridge, New York–based artists in the mid-to-late 1980s.Founded by radio DJ Mr. Magic, and housed by Tyrone Williams' record label Cold Chillin' Records, the Juice Crew helped introduce New School artists MC Shan, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Roxanne Shante, Masta Ace, Tragedy, Craig G and Kool G Rap.
Terence Trent D'Arby (pictured in 2003) was one of many artists to top the chart for the first time in 1988.. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1988 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American–oriented genres; the chart's name has changed over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005. [1]