Adversaries: Roxanne Shanté

Womanica

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History, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Roxanne Shanté (1969-present) ignited The Roxanne Wars, a series of hip hop rivalries during the mid 1980s, that created the most answered records in history. It was also one of the first “rap beefs” in history.

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0:23.4	Listen to I Choose Me with Jenny Garth on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
0:28.8	podcasts. Hello from Wonder Media Network I'm Jenny Kaplan and this is Womannica.
0:42.0	This month we're talking about adversaries women who fought for their place in history.
0:46.2	Whether they fought to get to the top of their sport against how society perceived them
0:50.5	or fought with each other to be champions.
0:53.2	We're talking about women who broke barriers and sometimes did seemingly impossible or
0:57.4	unspeakable things to carve out their place in history.
1:02.3	This episode of Womannica is brought to you by the all new Toyota Camry.
1:07.0	In 1984, a Brooklyn-based rap group called UTFO released their first hit single, Roxanne, Roxanne.
1:17.0	So when I'm at her, I'm wasting no time, but stuck up Roxanne.
1:20.0	The lyrics were about a woman by the name of Roxanne who refused the advances from the men in the group.
1:28.0	Over in another borough, a 14-year-old Queen's native recorded her own rhymes over the song's beat.
1:35.1	With that, she created an answer-back hip-hop record igniting one of the first
1:39.2	rap beefs in history. Let's talk about Roxanne Chante.
1:45.0	Roxanne Chante was born Loleida Chante Gooden in 1969 in Queens, New York.
1:51.0	As a young girl, Chante would watch Nipsy Russell and make up rhymes on
1:54.8	Hollywood squares. She would practice and write her own rhymes and compete with other
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