A 15-year-old girl named Roxanne Shante started the biggest rap beef war in history

How the best rapper of 1985 was sabotaged because she was a girl This segment originally aired Jan. 30, 2016 on VICE News Tonight on HBO.

How the best rapper of 1985 was sabotaged because she was a girl This segment originally aired Jan. 30, 2016, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.

What is the true value of a lyric in cold cash? Lyric-sharing deals aim to support songwriters

Nia Long Is Playing Roxanne Shante's Mom in a New Biopic The incredibly immortal Nia Long will play Roxanne Shante’s mom in the upcoming Roxanne Roxanne biopic, which Forest Whitaker and Pharrell are co-producing.

'No One Can Banish the Queen': A Conversation with Hip-Hop Pioneer Roxanne Shanté For the first time in its 16-year-history, tonight’s VH1 Hip Hop Honors will be devoted entirely to women in rap. Salt-N-Pepa, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, and Lil’ Kim will be honored. Roxanne Shanté, the first woman rapper to score a bonafide Read more ... hit single, will not be. In fact, as of late last week...

Kanye West on that Taylor Swift lyric: 'I will express how I feel with no censorship' The lyric was obviously intended with plenty of Kanye's self-aware audacity. But it instantly roiled the pop music and fashion worlds.

Wet’s Kelly Zutrau is ready to take over 2016 "I don't wanna be your girl no more" — the lyric, crystallized into being by Kelly Zutrau's voice, hangs in an electric thrum of sound. The song behind the lyric, "Don't Wanna Be Your Girl," is part of indie band Wet's 2013 self-titled EP; after em Read more ... erging from the depths of Soundcloud, the song made…

Weezer's 'Thank God for Girl' lyric video is ... pretty out there We could try to explain the pastry-filled video for Weezer's new single, "Thank God for Girls." But if we did, we wouldn't do it justice.

The Love Story Behind Alabama's First Legally Married Same-Sex Couple When Tori Sisson and Shanté Wolfe first met on the floor of an apartment party, they had no way of knowing they were on their way to making history — together. Shanté Wolf shares her side of the st...