Roxanne, Roxanne Page #8

Synopsis: In the early 1980s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita "Roxanne Shanté" Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in NYC.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Michael Larnell
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
75
TV-MA
Year:
2017
100 min
698 Views


And you can't even make

The people dance

Girls, you know I feel ashamed

When you're ever on-stage

Don't mention my name

Don't let them know

That you learned from me

The S-H-A and the N-T-E

I gave you a chance

Just to get it together

I am leather You're nothing but pleather

I gave you a chance to show your style

But now I am back and I will get wild

Shante

I take up for y'all

Everywhere I go

I talk about y'all girls

At every show

You don't appreciate the things

That I do for you

Well, now it's over

Your turn is through

I gave you a chance

To see if you could rhyme

But now I see you're on my yacht

You try to imitate everything I say

Well, you can't be me

'Cause this is one Shante

One Shante

And I'm that girl

Rocking and shocking around the world

I'm known everywhere that I go

They break they necks To come to my show

To see me diss dumb girls like you

I gave you a chance

But now youse through

You try it again

I'm telling you now

I'm letting you know

If you can't roll down

Don't even bother picking up a mic

'Cause you know just

Yes, what I'm like

When I get loose or I get mad

You know, yes, girls

That you are had

I took my chance

I took a rest

Just to see if y'all girls

Yes, could be friends

But now I turn on the radio

And I listen to your rhymes

Then I say:
"So?"

So what, girls, y'all try real hard

Listen to your rhyme

I say "Oh, my God"

They made girls who are such a shame

I worked so hard

To get y'all in the game of rap

And I tried very well

Now, I see I'll take you to hell

Straight through hell

Out the other side

Get on my back

I'll give you a ride

You never had a ride like this before

You never, ever pick up a mic anymore

Now I must see that I'm coming home

So, please, y'all jesters

Get off my throne

The royalty has just arrived

Back in the place

When I stepped inside

You best believe the things I say

Don't you know youse not Shante?

The S-H-A and the N-T-E

Five-foot-four or five-foot-three

I really could not tell you exact

But exactly, girls, you are wack

Shante

Well, Mother's back

Yes, the queen is home

You best believe to get off my throne

All you other MCs

I will demolish

Just for me

You can wax and polish my chin

Because I don't care

To talk back to me

You know you wouldn't dare

I gave you a chance

To see who you could be

And now I see that you can't be me

Two of y'all

Matter of fact, even four

Now I think it's gonna take much more

Of you to do what I do

And this is the reason

Why I'm telling you

When Shante's in the place

Give up the mic

'Cause to rhyme on the mic Is what I like

To do as a fact And you know that's true

That's the reason why I'm here

Telling it to you

'Cause Mother's home

That's what I say

And the reason why I say it

In a very nasty way

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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