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 !!!
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 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.
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
"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!
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!😘
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
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.
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!
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!
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
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!
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
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 ❤️
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
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.
Came from TV Girl’s “Song about me” I love this sample
Same
WTF is TV Girl???
@@N.Gaetznicz th-cam.com/video/IynkDGS2Ez0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Ch4UI8_f9siEnwAa
@@N.Gaetznicza band for girls without a paternal figure
@@N.Gaetznicza band duh
I still love this song in 2024! 🥰
You to im jamming 1:22 to her and Sparky d all night.
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 ❤
R-O-X-A;-N-N-E !! Put some RESPECT on her name! ❤❤❤
She was only 15! Greatest Female rapper
mr.Ed, everybody was.
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
i dont care what anyone says, the 80's were the best years for hip hop! everyday we had something new.
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..
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
I came from tv girl!
How funny but when this started to play, ALL THE WORDS CAME BACK TO ME.......ALL OF THEM!!! Classic!!!
Here from TV Girl’s - Song About Me 💕💕💕🧚🏽♀️✨
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.
Still to this day an this best ...nothing more pure than the old school beefs real music real talent ...
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.
My FAVORITE Roxanne song!
A Strause nnn
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
Yessss! Remember taping songs off the radio? 😀❤❤❤👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
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 ) :
"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???
This girl is Awesome and still to this day...
netflix today
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!
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
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!😘
Sistah is a Lyrical Beast !! None of these female so called rappers today can touch her hands down !!!
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
A Hip Hop masterpiece. Shante with Marley Marl on fire here.
I'm going upstairs to play Atari!
lol... I still be saying that whenever I get pissed off!
WORD👋👋😁
@@zenzimakeba2248z 5:15 ❤
marleys cuttin devastatin on this one
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..
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?”
Out of all the Roxanne songs, this by far was the most fire beat.
This is classic timeless song ❤️
Peace Queen
@99AL FAILI WAQAIN thanks so much ❤ peace to you 🙏🏽 ❤
Imagine getting to be so fresh in just one day. Impressive.
She had a Philly connection!
Pop Art!
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.
MY ALLTYME FAV RIGHT HERE!!! 💯♥️😀😎🔥🌹🥰❤️ QUEEN MISS SHANTE 🌹💯❤️🌹
I'm only 27 and mostly listen to the old school hits. Roxanne was young challenging them older rappers 💪
no other female MC can touch 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!
ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES....SHE THE BEST!!!!!!
i remember buying this at the record store Classic!
I loved this lady lol.. I thought her lyrics were super simple and sounded impomptu but she was SOO entertaining!
This is still bangin in 2021 👍🏽
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😊
I was 12 when this came out and I remember every word!
Marley Marl was a DOPE DJ back then Salute to the Juice Crew
This was the best! 98.7 Kiss fm in the 80s
I remember this wow memories!
Off the top of the dome G.O.A.T.
You know this MAN..
Nearly 40 years later...that shit STILL hot.
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!
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
Yes coming home from school turning on my boom box listening to this!!! lol :o)
the best of them all now that's hands down peace
best song period
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!
57, gay white male and I still know every word. Like scripture to me. ❤
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
one of my favs, from back on the day
Yes very unique and she. Came at the right time in history
wow awesome been looking for this since i lost my cassette tape bk in the days cheers for the up load..
Ge-wel-dig.
My favorite one 👍🏽
Love this track, i've got it on the Electro 13 tape, i remember blasting this on my boom box :)
I GREW UP QUICK LISTENIN TO THIS G,S I STILL LOVE HER XXX
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 ❤️
Had this on one of the Electro albums. Can't believe it was so long ago.
this takes me back .... f**kin SUPERB !!!!!!!!
Love it, '85 was a wicked year!
Great track.
Roxanne 4- ever !
She's legendary ❤ timeless music 🎶 ❤
Shante' at her finest.
MUCH 💘 TO YOU QUEEN OF RAP MISS SHANTE!!!!!! SHANTE ROX ON! QUEEN OF ROX!!!! 1000%
My parents went nuts when I used to play this . I still love it but I can see why
I can't tell you how long I have been looking for this single. Every time I've found it, it's been the wrong remix. You rock!!!!!!!!!
total tune so takes me back ,,still fresh
they! made!! a!!! movie!!!!
Yo I remember bangin this on my cassette back in 1985! Shante is d shit Son!!! :-)
Sends shivers down my spine!!!!!
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
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.
Que sonzeira hein , bom para dançar um break , o vocal é muito louco , as batidas sem palavras !!!
Been looking for this version for a while! Thanks for posting
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've been waitin for this to get on here. This was the shit when I first heard it and been a shante fan every since.
This still kills.
the dopest beat Marley ever made!
Stands up to time gone by that girl was super fly
She just the best of all girls and guys rappers peace out
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
Electro 7 😎
Electro 7 was awesome - this track and itchiban scratch, classic!
@@liamcoen1619look before you leap henryyyyyyy
Queen of the Rox! Roxanne Shante'!
Legendary
Absolutely fuckin genius
The coldest🔥👍👍
my first ever hip hop record! everyone knew the lyrics!!
"When I start to Rock don't cha kno I Neva Stop 👊
Love this!