Where Are They Now? 9 Of Our Favorite Female Rappers From Back In the Day

Roxanne Shante

What were you doing at the age of 14? Probably not involving yourself in a war of words on wax and blowing up because of it. But that’s what happened to Roxanne Shante, aka, Lolita Shanté Gooden. The Juice Crew member got big by doing the diss/answer record “Roxanne’s Revenge” that was aimed at the guys of the group UTFO (and their hit song, “Roxanne, Roxanne”). After that, she dropped two albums: ’89’s Bad Sister, and ’92’s The B***h is Back, jumped on a track with Rick James (“Loosey Rap”), and by 25, was ready to take a break from the game. And she sure the hell did. Once she finally came back around, she was a mentor to contestants on “Miss Rap Supreme” in 2008, and did a few guest appearances on tracks for many different folks. There was even supposed to be a biopic on her starring Keke Palmer, but because of financing issues, it was put on hold. Nowadays, you can see Shante speaking at different events looking pretty great, but we think she’d look better back in the booth!