Talk:Roxanne Wars
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Article originally created by Eric B (Was not logged on when the post was originally made, though).
After seeing the Bridge Wars article (even fixed it up and added to it a bit), I felt the Roxanne Wars had to be included as well, because it was the biggest saga of all, and prefigured the Bridge war, and included some of its key players, such as Roxanne Shante. I have included the 12 "Roxanne" records I have personally heard (from the original "Roxanne, Roxanne" to "Roxanne, Roxanne, Pt. 2: Calling Her a Crab"). I remember much of the battle by memory, and have also researched some of the records online to find out as much as I could about them (like the exact artist names). I could not find any information on the "Little Ice" record (which I only heard a clip of once), or the name of the Doug E. Fresh produced performers of the "The Show" response "No Show". I have never heard stuff like "Roxanne's Dog", or any of the other alleged dozens of records. If any one has any information on all that other stuff, please add! These are the sites where some of the records are sold or at least mentioned, and you can even see pictures of the labels on some of them:
http://www.zeiger.franken.de/Labels/12/12_Warlock.html
http://www.hiphop-network.com/articles/mcarticles/raplist.asp
http://www.hiphopsite.com/?p=%2Fsearch%2F%3Fartistid%3D3A208576-3482-4F86-A5C2-3685C02052F5
http://members.aol.com/ProfQuater/Fun.html -includes many other silly 'rappin' records
http://www.goodmoverecords.com/en-gb/dept_58.html,
http://www.formic.de/shop/product/SIN-2007.html
http://www.cheebadesign.com/personal/mp3_09-14-04.txt this site offers upon request mp3s of "Roxanne's Parents", "Rappin Roxy", the intrumental "doctor j.r. kool - rap your own roxanne" from "the Complete Roxanne" album, and UTFO's "Roxanne's Backside, scratch it"; and they also have another one called potato chips - roxanne's real fat.mp3, which I have never heard of.
http://kyleewyote.tripod.com/raplist.html This site has a bunch of the records, including two more I am not familiar with: The East Coast Crew - The Final Word-No More Roxanne and Zelee - No More Roxanne. I have also never heard of any other Roxanne impersonator beside the two who were famous, though there are frequent mentions of all these other "Roxannes".
Great article, Eric B.! Though this isn't directly related to the "Roxanne Wars", it might also be fitting to mention that Roxanne Shante was involved in a beef with MC Lyte ("Steady F---king" is a pretty direct assault on Shante, including some scathing comments on her looks & career.)
---Buddy-Rey
What about the songs 'I don't wanna know' by Mario Winans feat. P.Diddy answered with'You should really know' by The Pirates feat. Shola Ama? Does that count as a Roxanne War style of thing? If so does anyone who knows, wanna add it on? Cheers --Djjazzyjeff69 20:12, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Correction!!!!
Adeladia Martinez and JoAnne are the same lady...it was Elise Jacks who recorded Full Force's official response to "Roxanne,Roxanne" the song of course being titled as "The Real Roxanne" and being billed as Roxanne w/UTFO...however Elise did record the response she did not become the Official Real Roxanne,Elise soon left The Full Force camp and was replaced by a young Puerto Rican lady named Adeladia JoAnne Martinez who in turn would become the official and final Real Roxanne, JoAnne's first recorded release was actually "Romeo pt 1" & "Romeo pt 2" which was released in 1985 alongside her DJ Hitman Howie Tee.
