Word up...the ORIGINAL QB's finest right here! What a wonderful success story. Keep doing your thing, sis.

"Cause i'm the super female that's called Shante

and like Hurricane Annie I'll blow you away

whenever I'm in a battle yo I dont play

so you best go about your way - and have a nice day"

props to a true queen...

From the booth to the courtroom queen.  Much respect, thank you for sharing part of your story.

I first heard "Roxannes Revenge" on a bus going to a school skiing trip in 1984 and this kid passes me this tape and says "listen to this..then pass it up to the next seat" ....i put it on and i heard roxannes revenge (the version with Mr. Magic saying "OH MY GOODNESS" at the end) and i refused to pass the tape cause i was so blown away from it... she took UTFO's beat (first time i ever ever heard a diss song that takes the beat right from under their feet and rocks it harder) and flipped the hell out of it.

I still have that radio tape. i refused to let it go. it's great to see yer still alive and well...and successful in your own right. You still have the illest and most distinct  female voice in hip hop. Nuff respect.

Roxanne, that was a real pleasure to read a voice from the hip hop community that actually has something interesting to say.

I have to be honest when i saw the 'Dr' in front of your name i shrugged and tutted. I just thought here goes another idiot MC ego claiming themselves as the Prophet of some kind of lost knowledge. After im done laughing at those morons, it occurs to me that they perpetuate their own stupidity and ignorance onto others. The depressing thing is that it detracts attention to the studious and educational establishments that are worth paying attention to. Ah well its entertainment in one way or another. 

Yeah well anyway, i was really taken in by your story and really respect that you have passed through so much at such a young age and to go onto achieve a successful course of study in Psychology and Criminology. I would love to pick your brain on sociological opinion. Crime and deviance and its psychological, economic and political influences. As well as ethnicity and cultural response.

Perhaps if you feel moved to , you could write some opinion and debate in your blogs. I do not have good net access at the moment but will endeavour to read through your site and bulletins when i can.

Ok just to wish you and yours my warmest and say adios............MRGO   

Hello, I always loved your work. My friend has you on videotape during the Peace Weekend here in Philly. Drop me a message so we can get a copy to you.

Thanks

Earl

roxanne you are one of the first that kept hip hop alive.

I would like to congragulate ( if I spelled that correct )

you on your continued success.

speaking of success I'm also trying to get into tha-industry

myself,  but like its said if your not in the right place at the right time or know somebody that know's somebody your chances are slim.

                                                  BOGARDTHAINDUSTRY

P.S.  one day I will prove all them AnR's that they where wrong about me.

I remember being 8 or 9.  I just came from Puerto Rico. My mother and I were sitting at a KFC (when we used the whole name)....in Spanish Harlem...I think 106th and 2nd or 3rd ave.

This guy walks in blasting his boombox......playing Roxanne Roxanne I wanna be your man. Kept it blasting too.  Damn I miss the old days..

Anyway my mother was annoyed by the sound that was coming out of the speakers.

Me, I was amazed by everything....the beat, lyrics, and the fact that this guy walked in a restaurant blasting his box and nobody said anything....

Mom wanted to leave but I begged her not to. I wanted to hear it all.

The guy looks around and I guess sees that people are annoyed so he turns it off.  I  jump out of my seat like "NO!!!!!  please turn it back on, and can you please play that Roxanne song again.

He looks at me and smiles and says OK shorty......

I ask him to turn it up and he blasts it even louder then before (man I wish I could find one of those old school  boxes now).....

KFC clears out.  Mom says we have to go. I say i'll be out in a minute.

My mother must of seen something in my face because she went outside and waited about 20 minutes for me....

While inside listening...the man is telling me this is Rap music and its going to take over the world.....

At the age of 8 I believed everything he said.  Who would of thought that he was right.  I have been hooked on Rap and living Hip Hop ever since.

Thank you Roxanne for making my life what it is today.

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