Roxanne Shante has made history as the first solo female MC to be honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She received the honor last night (2/2) at the 2025 Grammy Awards Ceremony. Female MC's won big last night as Doechii and Rapsody took home Best Rap Album and Best Melodic Rap Performance Grammy's respectively.

Roxanne Shante took the world of Hip-Hop by storm with 1984's "Roxanne's Revenge", an answer to UTFO's gargantuan hit, "Roxanne,Roxanne". That answer was responsible for the infamous "Roxanne Wars", which garnered dozens of response records, and is recognized as Hip-Hop's first diss record.

Shante has been bestowed with several honors in recent years. In addition to being honored as one of 2024's Top Women In Media with the Cynopsis Award, she has also been inducted into Washington D.C.'s National Hip-Hop Museum, as well as the Berklee College Hip-Hop Hall of Fame. Last year Shante joined Grandmaster Caz and Kool Moe as a recipient of the Hip Hop Grandmaster Award, which issues a financial stipend to Hip-Hop artists whose financial compensation failed to match their cultural impact.

Congrats Roxanne Shante!