Roxanne Shanté - Roxanne's Revenge

Roxanne Shanté’ is one of the dopest female battle rap emcees to ever represent hip hop. The only female of Marley Marl’s re-formed Juice Crew. The original Juice Crew was founded by Mr. Magic, which Marley Marl was a member.

She got here name from UTFO’s song “Roxanne, Roxanne” when Marley Marl seen her outside of the Queensbridge Projects carrying some laundry to the laundry room. He asked here if she wanted to record a record. She agreed, and Marley created an answer track to UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne” titled “Roxanne’s Revenge”.

The original issue of the 'Street Version' was a cassette tape of Roxanne Shanté rhyming over U.T.F.O.'s "Roxanne Roxanne" instrumental. Select Records threatened a copyright lawsuit.
So Marley Marley and Shanté re-recorded the song to a different beat, and censored the explicit language, and it was released on Pop Art Records.

This answer track spawned what became known as the “Roxanne Wars”, with dozens upon dozens of answer records being made by huge number of artists & groups.

Artist: Roxanne Shanté
Album: The Best Of Cold Chillin’: Roxanne Shanté
Tracks:
1. Roxanne’s Revenge [5:01]
2. Def Fresh Crew (feat. Biz Markie) [4:21]
3. Bite This [4:32]
4. Run Away [4:33]
5. The Payback [4:23]
6. Have A Nice Day (Original 12” Version) [5:10]
7. Go On Girl (Original 12” Version) [3:46]
8. Dance To This [4:36]
9. Live On Stage [7:01]
10. Knockin’ Hiney [3:40]
11. Feelin’ Kinda Horny [4:11]
12. Brothers Ain’t Shit [4:56]
13. Big Mama [5:19]
14. Yes Yes Y’all [4:31]
15. Straight Razor [4:15]
16. Deadly Rhymes (feat. Kool G. Rap) [2:59]
17. Queen Pin [4:24]
Total Time: 1:17:31
Release Date: October 9, 2002
Format: Compact Disc (CD)
Label: Cold Chillin’ Records / LandSpeed Records
Catalog #: LSR 8810 CD
Genre: Hip Hop
Sub-genre(s): Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop
Era: Various

℗ 2002 LandSpeed Records