As a member of the infamous Juice Crew, Roxanne Shanté rapped alongside Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Biz Markie, Marley Marl and Kool G Rap, among other pioneering MCs.
At 14 years old, the Queens native dropped “Roxanne’s Revenge” in response to U.T.F.O.’s “Roxanne Roxanne” and was catapulted into the spotlight, becoming one of the first popular female rappers.
Now, Pharrell Williams and Forest Whitaker have teamed up with Netflix to produce a biopic about her life. Aptly titled Roxanne Roxanne, the film is expected to arrive March 23.
The film stars Detroit native Chanté Adams in the title roll, as well as Oscar-winning Hiero Imperium alum Mahershala Ali, Nia Long, Elvis Nolasco, Kevin Phillips and Shenell Edmonds.
Ahead of its release, Netflix has shared an official trailer, which gives a brief glimpse into the rough upbringing Shanté experienced.
Several notable figures from the Hip Hop community are clearly anticipating the film. Pharrell, Chuck D, Run The Jewels’ El-P and fellow Juice Crew member Masta Ace were among the many who posted about the biopic on their Twitter accounts.
Check out those posts below.
I wonder if the biopic includes the part about her lying having a phd: “New York’s Daily News published a story about the former rapper convincing her label, Warner Music Group, to pay for her education “for life.” She said she received an undergraduate degree from Marymount Manhattan College and a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell University. About a week later, Slate.com published a piece exposing Shanté’s apparent fib: She didn’t have a degree at all.” She then released a statement apologizing and admitting to lying about it.
Das raciss mayn #hatespeech
I’m a big hiphop fan, I’m not really interested in this that much, but I prob will watch, Let’s get a Bone Thug, Wu tang, Solo Eazy E, Master P, Rakim, Ruthless Documentary, Juice Crew Doc, Rap A lot Doc, don’t like Birdman but would love a Cash Money Doc.
Apple just released a Cash Money doc dude and Dx just did a review on it
That looked more like a Birdman Doc, I wanna see something that includes B.G, Juvie, Turk, Wayne, Mannie, the producers that were around etc
Bitches ain’t shit. Not interested.
Real Hip Hop shit should be a good Doc. Juice Crew ,and Cold Chillin is my shit .Roxanne Shanté the original femcee.
Somewhere out there Monique is looking stupid.
If it hadn’t been for Marley Marl, UTFO, Full Force along with Mr Magic of WBLS, plus Kane and G Rap ghostwriting her lyrics, this chick wouldn’t have a career.
This bitch lied for years about getting a masters degree at Cornell University. The truth came out a few years back and had her looking stupid AF. Lyin ass bitch, you lost all credibility with that one!
And you lie all the got damn time, so now what? That’s all your dumbass gotta say when somebody is trying to do something great? Fucking Crab.
Huh? You sound stupid as fuck. I guess you see no problem in being lied to. It’s simple minded idiots like you that voted Trump into office.
We need more rap shit. more rap biopics. keep it coming. looks great
How many of them really have enough to say that would keep us interested for 2 hours? Not many!