But the film is also a triumphant look at a woman who feels a sense of satisfaction about her accomplishments. These days, she lives in New Jersey with her husband, performing live and MCing weddings and birthday parties on the weekend. She still loves and is excellent at rapping, breaking into rhyme a couple times throughout the course of lunch.
View Iframe URL. I know I could do that! I practiced the whole day, and after that I was an expert, I guess. I have Nipsey Russell syndrome: the ability of being able to rhyme about everything. No, not at all. Also, the same clothes I wear during the day, that might be the same shit I wear on stage.
I never became that entertainer. I think it was supposed to. When I first got involved in hip-hop, hip-hop had an expiration date. Hip-hop is the only genre of music that we were told you must outgrow. So now to see that switch, to see that everyone listens to hip-hop, that all the commercials are hip-hop-based, the most successful fashions are hip-hop-connected—it makes me very proud to know that I came in and stood there.
All I know is that I never received a royalty check. The positive side of it is that a majority of the artists that I knew who did receive money all started to get high. So therefore, I never used any drugs. I never did any drinking. I barely had enough to just make sure everybody was good and survived on. Dimples D. She was from my block. There were many women who did it before me.
But none of them did it the way I did it. No singing, no trying to be cute. I met Cardi in the Bronx at an event. I like the way the women in hip-hop now are definitely taking care of their business and becoming bosses. View on Instagram. I love wordplay. Remy is a phenomenal writer, too.
I hate to see my sisters fighting. It bothers me. The competitive battle rapper in me wants to see the winner win. We actually had our own private viewing because I needed to know how she was going to feel about the movie. I was walking on eggshells because I was so nervous. I wanted to make sure that my mom was okay with it. Magic were standing outside a Queensbridge building known as "The Bridge", a housing project that was the home of talented rappers like Nas and Mobb Deep.
As the movie depicts, Marl and Magic were complaining about hip hop group U. O, which had recently released a track slamming a woman who turned them down called "Roxanne, Roxanne". Shante, then known as Lolita Shante Gooden, had been rapping since age 13, winning rap battles all over NYC against men twice her age. She had the verve to walk up to Marl and Magic and propose she rhyme a U. Her song "Roxanne's Revenge" wasn't just her breakout hit, it became her identity. She changed her name to Roxanne Shante, the moniker she still goes by today.
And the song spawned an unprecedented number of responses, with Shante, four other women claiming to be the original Roxanne, and a slew of other artists recording tracks, diss tracks, responses, and songs from the point of view of nearly every member of Roxanne's family including her baby. Summed up as the Roxanne Wars , they inspired well over 50 songs in under two years.
In a March interview with Pitchfork , Shante said she never received a royalty check, something she's made her peace with, and even sees an upside of. I barely had enough to just make sure everybody was good and survived on.
Roxanne, Roxanne shows that money was only one of Shante's problems. She and Shante had a contentious relationship, especially over fears the teenager would be exploited by the people around her. It wasn't unfounded; by age 15, the film depicts, Shante was in an abusive relationship with her son's father.
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