Roxanne Shante Smells Her Flowers With 'Roxanne Roxanne' Biopic
The new Netflix film chronicles the rapper's early career.
In the 1980s, as hip-hop was budding in the streets of New York City, a teenage girl from the Queens projects emerged as one of the genre's first female stars. At 14, Lolita Shanté Gooden, better known as Roxanne Shante, was a fierce, freestyling rap prodigy.
