- Drama
- 98 min
Rotten Tomatoes68%Metacritic74IMDb6.2
Life is a battle.
The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend, as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the street.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and raw.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- resolvedopen-ended
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Cast
- Chanté AdamsRoxanne Shanté
- Mahershala AliCross
- Nia LongMs. Peggy
- Elvis NolascoRay
- Shenell EdmondsRanita
- Adam HorovitzAttorney Schwartz
- Germar Terrell GardnerAntwan
- Terrence ShinglerBig John
- Nigel A. FullertonBiz
- Kristin DodsonClassmate #1
Crew
- Michael LarnellDirector
- Michael LarnellWriter
- Federico CescaDirector of Photography
- RZAOriginal Music Composer
- Claudia CastelloEditor
- Forest WhitakerProducer
- Nina Yang BongioviProducer
- Pharrell WilliamsProducer
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