Roxanne Shanté

Biography

Roxanne Shanté is an American rapper born Lolita Shanté Gooden on March 8, 1969, in Queens, New York. She gained fame in 1984 through the Roxanne Wars, collaborating with Marley Marl on the hit track "Roxanne's Revenge," which made her one of the first female MCs to achieve widespread popularity. Her life was dramatized in the 2017 film Roxanne Roxanne.