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Are Roxanne Shante and DMX related?
RAPPER DMX’s death has prompted an outpouring of grief from fellow musicians.
Roxanne Shante has joined the host of celebrities who shared their memories of the rapper.
Roxanne Shante and DMX are long-time friends[/caption]
Are Roxanne Shante and DMX related?
No, Roxanne Shante and DMX are long-time friends.
Shante said that she bonded with DMX over their childhood trauma and abuse-ridden past.
She said: “As soon as me and DMX came in contact with each other, as soon as me and Earl came in contact with each other, we already knew what was done to that spirit.
“It makes you overly aggressive. It makes you seem angry to people. It makes you seem mad at people,
“So, people try to find whatever they can in order to overcome that. Some people turn to drugs; some people turn to drinking.”
Shante said that she bonded with DMX over their childhood trauma[/caption]
Who is Roxanne Shante?
Roxanne Shante, born Lolita Shanté Gooden is a hip hop musician and rapper hailing from Queens, NYC.
She has been described by Billboard as “Rap’s First Female Star”.
She shot to fame in the wake of the ‘Roxanne Wars’ – a long-running hip-hop feud in the 1980s between Shante and The Real Roxanne.
Her most popular songs include Roxanne’s Revenge and Loosey’s Rap, but the young star retired at age 25.
She now mentors young female rappers in New York.
Roxanne paid her respects to the late DMX[/caption]
What did Roxanne Shante say in her video?
Roxanne Shante shared an almost eight-and-a-half-minute video captioned: “No One Knows. There are Happy Grown ups out here that are still Sad hurt and abused Children on the inside”
She added: “RIP DMX.”
In the video, Roxanne discussed the abuse that DMX’s mother inflicted on her son.
Roxanne started her video: “This is one of the most serious things that I’ve ever said, maybe even one of the most emotional and personal things that I’ve ever said,”
Roxanne Shante is a hip hop musician and rapper hailing from Queens, NYC[/caption]
“It has to do with DMX and what he had went through,”
“This is not what somebody told me, this is what he said to me. When he was younger, his mom had took him to a children’s home and said that they was just going to visit, and she left him there. She took him there, and she left him there.”
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She said she had experienced similar trauma to DMX’s, claiming: “I know what it’s like to run the streets, sleep on the train, sleep in the hallways, tried to sleep at friend’s houses.
“Have people say you can come stay at they house and they brothers would come try and mess with you or even they fathers and uncles and s**t.”
“When you have been a ‘check child’ — that means [foster parents] take you in they house because they only want a f***ing check — and then you go into this fucking hip hop field, and they only ***ing nice to you because you a commodity and you making them some f***ing money; it’s like this cycle never f***ing stops,” Roxanne added.
