KARDINAL OFFISHALL
MICHIE MEE
dropped a 7-minute freestyle
on Marley Marl’s 1986 hit
‘Roxanne’s Revenge’, blazing
a trail for generations of
female MCs.
The track, featuring Shante
standing up against street
harrassment, started Hip Hop’s
first beef: The Roxanne Wars.
BAD GYAL
1 of 1 handpainted Military jacket
14 year-old ROXANNE SHANTE
dropped a 7-minute freestyle
on Marley Marl’s 1986 hit
‘Roxanne’s Revenge’, blazing
a trail for generations of
female MCs.
The track, featuring Shante
standing up against street
harrassment, started Hip Hop’s
first beef: The Roxanne Wars.
QUEEN OF ROX
1 of 1 handpainted track jacket
in 1969 Black Panther deputy Chairman Fred Hampton assembled the Chicago Rainbow Coalition, an alliance of rival street gangs and other groups created to fight poverty, racism and police brutality.
Considered by the FBI to be a radical threat, Hampton was assassinated by police in his home. He was only 21.
