The first ladies of 1990s hip-hop, New York trio Salt, Pepa and DJ Spinderella broke down barriers with their effortlessly fresh tunes and ballsy attitude. Wu-Tang Clan’s late, great ODB shows off one of the most recognisable voices of the 1990s with this filthy and fun guttural groover. Rude and raucous, ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’ is one hell of a party tune. ‘CREAM’ – led by Method Man, Raekwon and Inspectah Deck – is a celebration of 1990s hip-hop’s most precious commodity: “dollar dollar bills, y’all”. The Roxanne track I’ve included on our Still MCR list is 1988s Go on Girl.The Wu-Tang Clan are the most innovative, cinematic and outstanding hip-hop crew of all time, and their 1993 debut, ‘Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’, is often considered the finest rap album ever released.
I say that because a record label created other acts under the name The Real Roxanne, and later The Real Real Roxanne, to try to cash in on Roxanne Shante’s success, but that’s a whole other story. There’s no denying the impact of Roxanne and her contribution to Hip Hop.Ĭheck out the Roxanne Shante Women in Hip Hop podcast episode with Jazzie Belle, for some stories straight from the realest of the Roxannes.
Her story is like all the Hip Hop pioneers at that time, she was there from early and put in work across the city in her early teens. When DJ Marley Marl spotted her and gave her The Big Beat to rhyme on, Roxanne freestyled on it fresh off the top of the head, one take, and the rest is history.
Roxanne was known as a battle rapper, going from project to project, battling. The track was in response to UTFOs Roxanne Roxanne, and so began the Roxanne Wars. Roxanne started rapping aged 14 and recorded the iconic Roxanne’s Revenge in 1984. Where’s Roxanne Shante ? What about the Roxanne Wars!!? Now, if any real Hip Hop fans are reading I know you’re thinking. In 1981, their music was witnessed by mainstream America as they became the first ever Hip Hop group to perform on television when they were brought out by Fab Five Freddy’s mate Debbie Harry on Saturday Night Live. You could only hear your favourite rhymers on cassette tape or at a jam which was promoted through flyering, radio was yet to catch on to the phenomenon.Īt 17, she earnt her spot in the Funky 4+1. She began rapping as a kid in the Bronx, at a time when the city was going through a lot of social struggles, at park jams before Hip Hop was even established. Widely accepted as the first female rapper and known as Mother of the Mic, Sha Rock sees herself as the blueprint of female MCs. As a woman of Hip Hop, Sha Rock put rap out there as something women do too.
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The Funky 4 +1, of which Sha Rock was known as Miss Plus One More, was the first Hip Hop group with a female rapper to release records commercially. As you just heard, MC Sha Rock was a member of Funky 4 +1 and a talented MC who would inspire Run DMC’s delivery and ‘echo chamber’ style.
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