Synopsis
Roxanne Roxanne (2017) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM. It follows Lolita Gooden, a kid from the Queensbridge projects who, in the early 1980s, became the rap name battle MCs in New York dreaded: Roxanne Shanté.
She is fourteen, feeding her mother and sisters, and she walks into street battles with no rehearsal and takes grown men apart. A diss aimed back at a hit that used her name lands as one of the genre's first answer records and turns her into a neighborhood star overnight. Chanté Adams carries the lead; Mahershala Ali plays the older man who looks like a way out and isn't, and Nia Long plays a mother worn down to the bone. Fame arrives long before she's ready for it, and the bill comes due.
Director Michael Larnell skips the glossy rise-to-the-top template and stays with a teenager holding up a family and a stage at the same time. Built from the real life of a women's hip-hop pioneer, it tells the truth even when it stings. For anyone who likes music films without the rose tint. Stream Roxanne Roxanne (2017) online on iFILM.
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