Our glacial process to a complete audio record of the Roxanne wars (topical, we know) continues. Dammit, we’re so close we can smell the end, with only 3 records now eluding us. We might have mp3’s of them, but it doesn’t count until we have the vinyl gathering dust in our racks reserved for 80’s [...]

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Since we last yelled at you about Roxanne battle records, some more have come to light. Yup, at least 23 years since anyone last cared, we’re still digging them up. Our man Werner (whose excellent blog just upped a dope interview with Cozmo D from Newcleus) is an aficionado of the Roxanne wars with a [...]

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Fresh out the box is Sparkle Motion’s ‘Flight School Vol. 1′ mix CD, except it’s a zshare link, get it HERE. Fat Lace famalam DJ Yoda is one half of Sparkle and Toby Tobes from Spinemagazine is t’other. Shout out to dem man dem. Also shout out to Spine for hosting Dan Greenpeace’s new Radio [...]

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And it don’t stop! It’s been more than a minute since we last beat you over the head with the minor instalments of a beef that started over a song about an imaginary character called Roxanne, with one of the major protagonists – Roxanne Shante – not even being called Roxanne in real life. That’s [...]

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We could have gone on with this. We could have spent a small fortune tracking down records like The Korner Boys’ ‘Sage of Roxanne’, G-Mann’s ‘Roxanne is my girl’, Overnite Bandits’ ‘Roxanne’s Baby’ and East Coast Crew’s ‘No More Roxanne’. We could even have included the largely unrelated ‘The Roxanne Plague’ by bass maestro Maggotron. [...]

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A triple threat of so-called Roxanne family members are the subject of today’s post. According to these records, Roxanne has a sister, a brother or brothers, and parents. Straight nuclear to the death! D.W. and the Party Crew had a few joints on Party Crew records, including the pretty expensive ‘Freaky Lover’ cut. Roxy here [...]

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“You’re wacker than wack, you stole your name from a hat…”
Yep, The Invasions are calling out MC Trilby. Or Kangol. One of the two. One of the finest minor Roxanne releases, this cash-in was produced by Clark Jay, who produced most of Specific’s output, including timeless classics for Divine Sounds like ‘What People Do For [...]

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“Her chest is very hairy, her face is very scary…”
Ralph Rolle has been around for a minute. It’s a long way from being a bit-part player in the Roxanne wars to playing drums on D’Angelo’s ‘Higher’ (from ‘Brown Sugar’). Along the way he had a track on ‘Beat Street Volume 2′ and worked on a [...]

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There’s more than one MC who claimed to be ‘Roxanne’s Man’. This time it’s the wackly named Ricardo’s turn. “I’m Ricardo, the finest baby maker / I’ve got more rhymes than McDonald’s got potatoes” he says, giving you some idea of the level of lyrical ability here. That said, there’s a nice beat, some sloppy [...]

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