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Roxanne Wars: The First Rap Battle Series in Hip-Hop History
In 1984, Brooklyn-based hip-hop group UTFO released a track called "Roxanne, Roxanne" — a playful song about a girl who keeps rejecting the rappers’ advances. While it began as a simple storytelling track, it unintentionally lit the fuse for what would become one of the most legendary and expansive diss battle sagas in music history: the Roxanne Wars.

The spark came from Roxanne Shanté, a 14-year-old girl from Queensbridge, who dropped a fiery response titled "Roxanne’s Revenge". Her diss track flipped the script and challenged the male-dominated hip-hop scene head-on. The response was explosive — dozens of other rappers and crews jumped in with their own versions, creating a chain reaction of lyrical warfare never seen before.

The Roxanne Wars represented:

The rise of female MCs in hip-hop

The mainstreaming of battle rap culture

A new form of musical dialogue through diss tracks

What started as a fictional rejection became a cultural moment — and the Roxanne, Roxanne phenomenon remains one of the most iconic events in early hip-hop history.

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