It's amazing how the human brain works. As a kid, my friend had this on tape. He would play it over and over. Haven't heard it since...AND YET, i still remember the whole damn song. And remembering NOT to say " sh*t , goddamn" because I didn't cuss back then !!!
"I said 'no not that way, no not to-day'/he said, 'you know i'm just playin' Shante" "So tell me this/could you please sit down/ I said 'No cause, this ain't my part of town." She was SPITTING fire bars!!! OFF THE TOP OF HER HEAD! Roxanne Shante was a freakin beast!
Yeah, she was talking about how she recorded "Roxanne's Revenge". She freestyled it off the top of her head, making it up (improvisation) as she went along. No pre-written.
After 30 long years of trying to track down just the name of this version, I'd almost lost hope. Finding this was like Christmas all over again - even after finding underground music shops who heard of Shante' nobody knew anything about this version.
I also had a long journey looking for this song! I heard it on WBLS and managed to tape it at one point but as the years go by and you lose things it became a mission to find this song either on 12" or on the net. Thank you for uploading this! Shante does not hold back and to this day she is a force to be reckoned with!
When you turn 51 and this song just randomly pops into your head for absolutely no reason. I always thought they were saying "why'd ya have to make a wreck about me". I was 12 when it came out.
Omg this is my song. I remember taping this off the radio. Back in the day if the didn't have the lyrics you had to keep pressing rewind and play to write the lyrics down. This was the first song I did that with. I can remember every single word. Damn memories. You couldn't tell us nothing back then. Haha
True classic. I grew up listening to Shante'. She rocked the mic with the best of them back then. She's an original member of the Juice Crew too. the only woman to achieve that status. She out-rocked UTFO back then too. This is legendary material.
Drops the mic and mouth left wide open! 15 & fresh, Roxanne Shante don't take no mess! Better than all the rest, I must confess she is the illest, she passed the test..her rythmes are simply hands down hats off, the best..fresh too death..:) much love and respect to the real Queen B, long live Roxanne Shante!😘
How nostalgic; I remember the original roller-skates with the big red rubber piece in the front to stop! The barbecues and block parties. Kool and The Gang's Celebration, Tom Tom Club's Genius of Love, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On...... that was when music was music!
1985 i won a DJ Battle with this Joint.Love this right here. Galaxy Club Mildenhall A.F.B kid from Baltimore pushed up on me had to Represent for Brooklyn
My 13 year old was stuttering as I caught him fibbing...it reminded me of this so I had to revisit this. Still sounds as ard as the day I bought it age 11! Age 47 and my body is stiff but I can still body pop n lock
When they talk about diss records and top 10 males and females Mcees of all time, Rox should be talked about! She was no joke and the flow is gold! Peace!
When they played this and the original Rock the Bells on Majic 108 mixes in the evening, your tape off the radio cassette became the stuff, when you played it out the window in the hood! Peace!
Shanté is one of the greatest MCs of all time. Mad props, too, for posting the "Def Mix Vol. 1" cover! I had that and had to return it to the store because the hole in the center was too small for my turntable, and when I finally was able to get it off of the platter to play the other side, the second side was badly damaged anyway. Fortunately, I was able to tape it! Peace.
I was 10 when this came out and its still hard lyric wise this was a freestyle recorded...name one female rapper can fuck with her lyric wise.i will give u 100 dollars
I used to break dance to this in the 80's. Recorded to cassette tape at 45 rpm as it better to dance to. Play this video at 1.25 speed and it sounds close to the 45.
Yo i remember this frm listening to mr. Magic & Marly marl this was the jam daaammmmmm good ass memories. Now honestly thats when i fell in love with hip hop & it was my first rap that i learned by heart
been looking for this for almost 25 years!!!!! i never knew the title. Been doing searches for "Let me tell you a story yes how i got to be so fresh" LOL look that up and you'll see why i was never able to find it. this was the SH!T! still remember it word for word after almost a quarter century. This is a true classic
Loved this .... first heard when I was 14 ... I’m 49 Was on a mic tape we listened to thinking we were breakdancers... hahahha ... 1 st year at secondary school Glasgow Scotland Nike cagoule Joggers Hi tech teks with tongue flopping everywhere Linoleum Yep .. we were the bollox!!! In our own heads ... memories ❤️
In the days when you could listen to tracks like this, rave AND study for exams without breaking a sweat! Just watched 'Roxanne Roxanne'. Nice trip down memory lane.
Yo I will always remember this jam by Roxanne Shante will always be one of the greatest families rapper of all times. Plus old school hip hop will never died and that's word to my family and friends that made God bless their souls that they rest in peace and I say word up doc. Cause old school hip hop will always be better than the bull shit hip hop that's out now, feel me and I say it again and again that's word up doc peace. May 29-2019.
My mom was going to slap me rapping to this song . I said let me tell you a storyest how I got be got so fresh.It happened one day you know when I was sitting upstairs listening to the radio. Man she jumped up fast and I ran.
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It's amazing how the human brain works. As a kid, my friend had this on tape. He would play it over and over. Haven't heard it since...AND YET, i still remember the whole damn song. And remembering NOT to say " sh*t , goddamn" because I didn't cuss back then !!!
I probably was that friend 😂😂I broke the tape
@@derekeverett371 😄😄😄😄😄😄
We all still know bro...amazing. Chris Manchester, UK
Me too
Me too ❤
Came from TV Girl’s “Song about me” I love this sample
Same
WTF is TV Girl???
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I still love this song in 2024! 🥰
You to im jamming 1:22 to her and Sparky d all night.
She was only 15! Greatest Female rapper
mr.Ed, everybody was.
This is what we'll be listening to in our retirement homes. fellow forty-somethings... :)
More like fellow 50 somethings.
@@MemoGrafix indeed. IF we make to retirment
I still blast this in the whip 👍🏽
Oh my goodness
I'll be chasing down the hot chocolate nurses in my wheelchair. It's time for my sponge bath!
Here from TV Girl’s - Song About Me 💕💕💕🧚🏽♀️✨
"I said 'no not that way, no not to-day'/he said, 'you know i'm just playin' Shante"
"So tell me this/could you please sit down/ I said 'No cause, this ain't my part of town."
She was SPITTING fire bars!!! OFF THE TOP OF HER HEAD! Roxanne Shante was a freakin beast!
Indeed. Creating an entire story and new style of he said she said off the top of her head.
She was!
What exactly did she say Marl asked her to come to his house and do???
Yeah, she was talking about how she recorded "Roxanne's Revenge". She freestyled it off the top of her head, making it up (improvisation) as she went along. No pre-written.
True story, can clearly hear it's freestyle, Goddam quality.. Cos he's a runaway....
Absolute truth..
After 30 long years of trying to track down just the name of this version, I'd almost lost hope. Finding this was like Christmas all over again - even after finding underground music shops who heard of Shante' nobody knew anything about this version.
+Dee Amby Glad you finally found it.
Dee Amby come to my page and watch the video
You took the words right out my mouth
I also had a long journey looking for this song! I heard it on WBLS and managed to tape it at one point but as the years go by and you lose things it became a mission to find this song either on 12" or on the net. Thank you for uploading this! Shante does not hold back and to this day she is a force to be reckoned with!
Think it was Street sounds electro 7 compilation in 85. That's how I remember it.
THIS WAS MY ROCK! MY JAM RIGHT HERE! When this joint came out, everybody was like "Why'd you have to make a record about me? The R-O-X-A-N-N-E!"
Add Seymour fr fr she was ahead of her time with the off of the head battle rhymes
How funny but when this started to play, ALL THE WORDS CAME BACK TO ME.......ALL OF THEM!!! Classic!!!
I can see why this was used as a sample on tv girls “song about me” the lyric literally goes “why’d you have to go make a song about me?”
My FAVORITE Roxanne song!
A Strause nnn
i dont care what anyone says, the 80's were the best years for hip hop! everyday we had something new.
Memories! Had this on the Electro 7 compilation from Street Sounds back in the 80s. Cassette, so I could play it on my Rasta blaster
When you turn 51 and this song just randomly pops into your head for absolutely no reason. I always thought they were saying "why'd ya have to make a wreck about me". I was 12 when it came out.
She had a Philly connection!
Pop Art!
Roxanne Shante is a hip hop legend hands down. because of HER dis record to U. T. F. O. 100 dis records was made. if u don't know lean ur history.
+Otis Brown True! Think about that b4 saying Lyte rules
Shante got my respect. But lyte is still my queen in this game.
Yeah baby...'she got a face like a man' wahhh
This girl is Awesome and still to this day...
netflix today
I came from tv girl!
Omg this is my song. I remember taping this off the radio. Back in the day if the didn't have the lyrics you had to keep pressing rewind and play to write the lyrics down. This was the first song I did that with. I can remember every single word. Damn memories. You couldn't tell us nothing back then. Haha
Yessss! Remember taping songs off the radio? 😀❤❤❤👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Still to this day an this best ...nothing more pure than the old school beefs real music real talent ...
I'm going upstairs to play Atari!
lol... I still be saying that whenever I get pissed off!
WORD👋👋😁
@@zenzimakeba2248z 5:15 ❤
True classic. I grew up listening to Shante'. She rocked the mic with the best of them back then. She's an original member of the Juice Crew too. the only woman to achieve that status. She out-rocked UTFO back then too. This is legendary material.
A Hip Hop masterpiece. Shante with Marley Marl on fire here.
R-O-X-A;-N-N-E !! Put some RESPECT on her name! ❤❤❤
Damned ! Last time I heard this was 35 years ago. Nothing will bring me back my childhood in the 80's again. Truly truly miss it ) :
MY ALLTYME FAV RIGHT HERE!!! 💯♥️😀😎🔥🌹🥰❤️ QUEEN MISS SHANTE 🌹💯❤️🌹
no other female MC can touch Roxanne Shante
This is classic timeless song ❤️
Peace Queen
@99AL FAILI WAQAIN thanks so much ❤ peace to you 🙏🏽 ❤
Drops the mic and mouth left wide open! 15 & fresh, Roxanne Shante don't take no mess! Better than all the rest, I must confess she is the illest, she passed the test..her rythmes are simply hands down hats off, the best..fresh too death..:) much love and respect to the real Queen B, long live Roxanne Shante!😘
Imagine getting to be so fresh in just one day. Impressive.
Sistah is a Lyrical Beast !! None of these female so called rappers today can touch her hands down !!!
marleys cuttin devastatin on this one
My parents went nuts when I used to play this . I still love it but I can see why
ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES....SHE THE BEST!!!!!!
How nostalgic; I remember the original roller-skates with the big red rubber piece in the front to stop! The barbecues and block parties. Kool and The Gang's Celebration, Tom Tom Club's Genius of Love, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On...... that was when music was music!
57, gay white male and I still know every word. Like scripture to me. ❤
Mannnnn EVERYTHING about this is dope!!!!..I'm 45 and cant remember what I did last week but I can still recite every word lol..
Off the top of the dome G.O.A.T.
You know this MAN..
Marley Marl was a DOPE DJ back then Salute to the Juice Crew
1985 i won a DJ Battle with this Joint.Love this right here. Galaxy Club Mildenhall A.F.B kid from Baltimore pushed up on me had to Represent for Brooklyn
This was the best! 98.7 Kiss fm in the 80s
I was 12 when this came out and I remember every word!
My 13 year old was stuttering as I caught him fibbing...it reminded me of this so I had to revisit this. Still sounds as ard as the day I bought it age 11! Age 47 and my body is stiff but I can still body pop n lock
Out of all the Roxanne songs, this by far was the most fire beat.
When they talk about diss records and top 10 males and females Mcees of all time, Rox should be talked about! She was no joke and the flow is gold! Peace!
This is still bangin in 2021 👍🏽
i remember buying this at the record store Classic!
When they played this and the original Rock the Bells on Majic 108 mixes in the evening, your tape off the radio cassette became the stuff, when you played it out the window in the hood! Peace!
Wow she mentioned Atari lol yeah I remember that used to be the best game system back then, good song, classic, brings me back to growing up in NYC😊
Nearly 40 years later...that shit STILL hot.
I loved this lady lol.. I thought her lyrics were super simple and sounded impomptu but she was SOO entertaining!
Yes coming home from school turning on my boom box listening to this!!! lol :o)
I'm only 27 and mostly listen to the old school hits. Roxanne was young challenging them older rappers 💪
MUCH 💘 TO YOU QUEEN OF RAP MISS SHANTE!!!!!! SHANTE ROX ON! QUEEN OF ROX!!!! 1000%
Shanté is one of the greatest MCs of all time. Mad props, too, for posting the "Def Mix Vol. 1" cover! I had that and had to return it to the store because the hole in the center was too small for my turntable, and when I finally was able to get it off of the platter to play the other side, the second side was badly damaged anyway. Fortunately, I was able to tape it! Peace.
Roxanne 4- ever !
I was 10 when this came out and its still hard lyric wise this was a freestyle recorded...name one female rapper can fuck with her lyric wise.i will give u 100 dollars
the best of them all now that's hands down peace
Shante' at her finest.
Yo I remember bangin this on my cassette back in 1985! Shante is d shit Son!!! :-)
Yes very unique and she. Came at the right time in history
Had this on one of the Electro albums. Can't believe it was so long ago.
I time travel back to the 80s with this Big time, back to Freeport Long Island Word Up! I see Latino pony tails again lol hahahaha
wow awesome been looking for this since i lost my cassette tape bk in the days cheers for the up load..
Love this track, i've got it on the Electro 13 tape, i remember blasting this on my boom box :)
best song period
Stands up to time gone by that girl was super fly
I remember this wow memories!
bruh! she freestyln when freestyling wasn't even invented 🔥🔥🔥 & Marley Marl on the beat 🔥🔥🔥
I was just thinking that Roxanne Roxanne beat by utfo went viral before there was a viral. How many Roxanne songs came out with that beat?
one of my favs, from back on the day
Love it, '85 was a wicked year!
this takes me back .... f**kin SUPERB !!!!!!!!
I GREW UP QUICK LISTENIN TO THIS G,S I STILL LOVE HER XXX
She's legendary ❤ timeless music 🎶 ❤
I used to break dance to this in the 80's. Recorded to cassette tape at 45 rpm as it better to dance to. Play this video at 1.25 speed and it sounds close to the 45.
they! made!! a!!! movie!!!!
HISTORIC AKA HERSTORIC
My favorite one 👍🏽
Yo i remember this frm listening to mr. Magic & Marly marl this was the jam daaammmmmm good ass memories. Now honestly thats when i fell in love with hip hop & it was my first rap that i learned by heart
been looking for this for almost 25 years!!!!! i never knew the title. Been doing searches for "Let me tell you a story yes how i got to be so fresh" LOL look that up and you'll see why i was never able to find it. this was the SH!T! still remember it word for word after almost a quarter century. This is a true classic
Loved this .... first heard when I was 14 ...
I’m 49
Was on a mic tape we listened to thinking we were breakdancers... hahahha ...
1 st year at secondary school
Glasgow
Scotland
Nike cagoule
Joggers
Hi tech teks with tongue flopping everywhere
Linoleum
Yep .. we were the bollox!!!
In our own heads ...
memories ❤️
In the days when you could listen to tracks like this, rave AND study for exams without breaking a sweat! Just watched 'Roxanne Roxanne'. Nice trip down memory lane.
Only song i can rap. after over 30 decades, remember the words like yesterday. only search for it 2 days ago. what a memory . . .
Queen of the Rox! Roxanne Shante'!
"When I start to Rock don't cha kno I Neva Stop 👊
Great track.
2025 still a bangin tune
Yo I will always remember this jam by Roxanne Shante will always be one of the greatest families rapper of all times. Plus old school hip hop will never died and that's word to my family and friends that made God bless their souls that they rest in peace and I say word up doc. Cause old school hip hop will always be better than the bull shit hip hop that's out now, feel me and I say it again and again that's word up doc peace. May 29-2019.
the dopest beat Marley ever made!
Sends shivers down my spine!!!!!
total tune so takes me back ,,still fresh
Theres a film out about Roxanne Shante The Cut on Netflix
my first ever hip hop record! everyone knew the lyrics!!
This still kills.
My mom was going to slap me rapping to this song . I said let me tell you a storyest how I got be got so fresh.It happened one day you know when I was sitting upstairs listening to the radio. Man she jumped up fast and I ran.
Ge-wel-dig.
i wish someone would post the video to this. its been on youtube before. its a classic! great early hip hop video. one of the first.
I was born in 1981 I don't remember her or this song. Googling my history now
M M of course not.. You would've been like 3 years old