How Roxanne Shante paved the way for Cardi B and Nicki Minaj

New Netflix film Roxanne Roxanne dramatises the life of a rapper who influenced every female MC since the 1980s. It’s about time her story got heardOn the surface, Roxanne Shanté, whose recording career effectively ended in her mid-20s, might not seem like an obvious choice for a hip-hop biopic. The reality, however, is that, as its first female superstar, Shanté’s influence was seismic and everlasting. Without Shanté, there would be no Nicki, no Cardi, no Iggy. And so it ...

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