Rapsody is the third female rapper to win Best Melodic Rap Performance, following Lauryn Hill, who won the award in 1999 for ...

Roxanne Shante gets her flowers and makes history at the same time. Rapper Roxanne Shante will be the first female solo rapper to receive the Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement award. The ...

Roxanne Shanté is widely thought to be one of the first female rappers with a solo hit — 1984’s “Roxanne’s Revenge” — and will soon be the first solo female rapper to receive a ...

Roxanne Shante reflects on her Hip-Hop legacy as she is set to become the first solo female rapper to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Recording Academy this week. She will be ...

Police say I'zayah Pyant, 11, was last seen Tuesday night between the hours of 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. near North 38th and West ...

“But here I am!” Shanté, 55, was 14 when she scored her breakthrough hit with 1984’s “Roxanne’s Revenge.” Having largely left her music career behind by the mid-1990s, she sounded ...

pioneering freestyle rapper Roxanne Shanté, gospel-music mainstay Dr. Bobby Jones, early English punk-rock firebrands the Clash, and — posthumously — Prince and Frankie Beverly.

We all know that Prince was a musical genius, but at the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards on Saturday (Feb. 1), Jimmy Jam, formerly of The Time, told of other keys to Prince’s success – he was ...

prog blues musician Taj Mahal and rapper Roxanne Shante. Recipients of the Trustee Awards were composers Erroll Garner and Tania Leon and producer Glyn Johns, while acoustic pioneer Dr. Leo Berane ...

Lifetime achievement awards also went to The Clash, Frankie Valli, Frankie Beverly, Dr. Bobby Jones, Taj Mahal and Roxanne Shante. The trustees award recipients were Erroll Garner, Glyn Johns and ...

Why Lawd?” features guest appearances by Snoop Dogg, H.E.R., Thundercat, Earl Sweatshirt, Rae Khalil and more.