ROXANNE SHANTE-Bite this

[@MatthewRogers-qw1iu]

It’s a crying shame as my daughter said to me, “dad l wish l was living in the 1980s 90s as the music was so good.

[@vivatron]

This was my fave track back in the day!#

[@luked1675]

Wasnt it bostin

[@willx_1]

Marley Marl is one of the greatest rap producers of all time.

[@garysimcock9816]

Absolutely %100

[@djpokkeydjpokkey109]

Facts 💯 I still play He cuts so fresh til this day

[@tonysmith5878]

LONG LIVE THE JUICE CREW ALL STARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@l34052]

roxanne would kill any of todays MC's in a battle, it would be a massacre. the girl got skills

[@edwardharris4836]

She's not Roxanne!

[@pietropes1322]

Up there with the best of all time - the drums, the mix, scratching, her voice and energy, her no fucks given - amazing.

[@Nokka10]

Roxanne Shante was the only true MC back in the day and i couldnt get enough of her..great to hear it back again

[@thump1st]

This had one of the sickest scratches. I loved this song. Use 2play it all the time when it first came out

[@jasonharris3965]

Yeah, Marley cutting on this is bananas.

[@BigHRD2]

Classic hip hop never dies.

[@garysimcock9816]

Heard this at 14. 46 this year Still gets me HYPE AS FUCK god bless hip hop. X LOVE

[@LurgsHowToGuides]

Was gutted this wasn't in the movie about her life, I think this is her best track by far

[@RocStarr913]

Likely couldn’t get the record label to give them the rights.

[@MatthewRogers-qw1iu]

You are so right as this is so smooth

[@CODEDTESTAMENT]

Shante was a dissing machine back in the day. This track went after just about everyone, people who she wasn’t even affiliated with. It was just unreal to see someone so young go after the elders with such attitude and validity.

[@ctbadcop15]

anthony rios I know when she mentioned RUN DMC I was like that’s it for her and she came back with another jam!

[@johnnightshade5779]

Love this cut still and i miss this era of hip hop. Im so glad i grew up this era.

[@clumpyify]

my favourite female rapper

[@Wasko1312]

MC Lyte

[@luked1675]

Marley marl let loose. Still luv it

[@roudyralpher9539]

First Female Rapper I heard on the Radio in the 80s...

[@DobroBad]

LEGENDARY STATUS! MAXIMUM RESPECT!

[@paulmorphy6187]

Marley Marls music had a great flavour to it

[@TheTankUK]

The one and only queen of hip hop! Anyone don’t agree BITE THIS! First record I ever bought and I had to travel on the train for the first time alone aged 9 just to get to the record store. Proud to say I still have the record in my old school collection 👍🏻

[@4grandskids457]

Bring back memories shante was the shit

[@LorenzoCanty]

I remember the mr magic 🎩 show with Marly vs red alert

[@jaquenajohnson]

I'm 13 yrs old and this is my jam! ;)

[@nathanbreakin9684]

I was 12 when this was released! Still listening in 2024...

[@michellemarshall8438]

QUEEN of rap. All bow down, especially Niki minaj and cardio b who proudly says she bites!

[@mnewtmnewt3313]

She really had it going on...and Marlly was one of my idols on the the wheels...

[@CHRISANDREOU4199]

How did she not get sighned to Def Jam? She blasts Run Beastie Cool j into next week

[@tammyjones2846]

Roxanne Shante vs. The UTFO crew were the greatest rap beefs because they were fun.

[@algernonfranklin3193]

Facts! Rest In Power Kangol Kid!!!

[@justincrowe9454]

absolutely classic stuff.....the rhymes may be simple but by God does it blow any other female rapper away.......

[@TigerLikesTail]

+Justin Crowe Nope. Have you ever heard Rapsody? Search Rapsody: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert. Angel Haze leaves This woman way back in the dirt. Search Angel Haze - Battle Cry. There are a bunch more. These are just 2 of the top.

[@justincrowe9454]

TigerLikesTail will look at that now mate...nice 1

[@kdaconquerasmooth1863]

She was about 14 or 15

[@BIGERNMcCrack]

Yeah people have prob taken it to another level but ya always gotta give props to the pioneers that laid the ground work and set the bar high.

[@LVMHO6]

"...It's Going around Like A New Disease / Bitin' My Rhymes Those Cubby Skeeze..." ! Get it , Shani !!!

[@gregmunro4654]

quality from Roxanne shante back in the day, Neva too be beaten the best mc female rapper that Eva lived!!

[@jon68ish]

BEST FEMALE RAPPER OF HER TIME-NUFF SAID!!

[@tonysmith5878]

SHANTE WAS BATTLE READY.

[@Moshe.1972]

This takes me back this is real hip hop

[@Wally-H]

This was as tough as it got in 85. Full respect.

[@mandeemonee]

this track defined her ,, PERIOD. Run DMC,, LL Kool J,, I mean FOR REAL THESE WERE HEAVY WEIGHTS THEN,, and she took them on NOOOOOO problem,, NOOOO fear.

[@leeparham2876]

shante jammed on this one

[@dannysandy5309]

Roxanne and sparky d were legends

[@anthonyleighton4754]

one of the rawest female rap tracks ever - she definitely had a quality flow...

[@steveaston516]

no beating the best female rapper ever.

[@nickhunt2824]

Shante was the baddest...busted speakers with this joint!!!

[@jamvegan1840]

I'm 39 and this is my jam :D

[@maccagrabme]

This is the type of scratching that makes ANYONE want to get behind a turntable, simple by today's (boring) standards but absolute classic and pure rhythm.

[@mauricebarnardsr.3949]

it's the greatest rap queen from Newark, New Jersey. I used to live in the academy spires. I was a young D.J from Brownsville, Brooklyn who personally know and was raised with Roxanne , Ashaunte and five bodyguards from the spires. My mother moved to east Newark in 1983 where I lost contact with my daycare and elementary friends from academy spires. The Queen is very educated also. 2018 rap and hip hop music is still in our blood and Islamic culture. Maurice Malik Muhammad say peace family.

[@99alfailiwaqain51]

As Salaam Alaikum; Thanks for your contributions to the culture sun..

[@janiedoman1070]

Best contract.,to get her Education.,. They thought she wouldn’t go back. I’m so proud she went back and a college Degrees in mmm my

[@marcelbregman4454]

brings me back to age 14 , being 43 at the moment bite that

[@1Surinamer]

lol so as me, Glad i have experienced the 80s - best time of my life.

[@terra2805]

Marcel Bregman Exact same here. I was born 76 and used to love this era of rap. Can still recite every verse. Lol.

[@mr_diatribe2324]

44 ! past 42 the meaning of life lol hip hop forevvvvvvvvvvvvver!

[@kdaconquerasmooth1863]

I'm 50 and loved this. I bought most of her records.

[@LurgsHowToGuides]

If I was stuck on a desert island then I would hope to have this with me, as fresh today as when it was first released.

[@eclecticjon1019]

I remember when this first came out, it blew everyone away.

[@robertlassiterjr2042]

Her Marley, Biz....I still listen to all that!

[@correlationimpliescausatio862]

Just greatest rapper would be more honest. She's not just "good for a girl". She's good for anybody.

[@MrMaxxRated]

When music beef stayed on wax

[@djleen]

My favourite voice of any female rapper and many males too. Go on girl 😜

[@daysturn1971]

THIS IS RAP, KIDS!

[@smokeybrown80]

More like THIS IS RAP, NEXT GEN!

[@austinbailey5990]

Had a WBLS mix stolen from my car years ago. Had a dope ass mix of "Big Mouth" by Whoudini over this beat then this song mixed in. If you're not from NYC and I hear you playing this mix it's on sight!

[@vincentthomas9817]

A world premiere. Marley cut this up on WBLS

[@ronaldoriordan9259]

Brings back them UK B-Boy days.. So many MC's are lost in the paper chase.

[@angeladavis6343]

Ronald O'Riordan the best ever u go girl

[@vincentthomas8479]

Marley would kill this on WBLS

[@Moshe.1972]

Lol I used to rock to this word!!!!!!

[@miloalexi]

I Might only be 13 but rap music then was better then the shit it is now

[@loveaffect]

M. Alexi ooooh girl you bout to be 17 or 18 .

[@highmodulus]

She was 15 in this,

[@thegucciparischannel6559]

Real Hip-Hop :)

[@WickerMan73]

From the early 80s To this very day ive still not heard a better female rapper

[@renofederighi8774]

Bite this wow when Rap was Rap

[@mr_diatribe2324]

I'm in love with her! Since 1984 and I'm 44. When I say I am in love I mean? Well her voice! When it comes to the mic and......... Cutest rough rhymer! Perhaps the greatest spitter of lyrics ???? The delivery of Shante's rap via Kane's is brutal! South Bronx ain't shit! Queens and philly and the bronx! IS! ALL block rocking!!!!!!.................................................................................................. ;)

[@VintageFunk]

Thx 4 tha post, dis used ta be my SHIZ back in tha 80's...

[@doggfox]

Oh man hard as hell. Easy the best track she ever did and a killa beat from the man marley marl.

[@larrybennett2521]

QUEEN SHANTE MOTER OF RAP!!!! PERIOD!!!!! TRUE LEGEND QUEEN SHANTE!!!!!!

[@TheOldschoolfool]

excellent vid buddy marley marl beats.hard as hell. so glad i was around when hip hop music like this was out

[@BrutalBassBB]

Shante rox.. Great track nice upload!!

[@LVMHO6]

Old school slang. Cubby was like nasty and skeeze is short for skeezer. Shante actually made a song about JJ Fad called " Skeezer " lmao...

[@BlueBookGuy]

Roxanne Shante Vs. Eminem ? Different generations but would love to hear and watch a 'stand off' !

[@Wally-H]

Shante would set fire to him. Look up her battle with Busy Bee on here and listen to her destroy him. A lot of people accuse Shante of being fake because some of her later stuff was ghost-written but she was in fact a great freestyle battle rapper.

[@rob191270]

My fave emcee ever. Fly Shante!!!! True legend.

[@kehindeoyegunle8920]

Definitely 1 of the best females to bless the MIC.

[@algernonfranklin3193]

She was the hardest emcee rhyming of the top of the dome. Especially at her age. Kane made sure when she developed more he had her bacc on aiding her with lyrics.

[@MrLAKERS21]

Nobody could beat this thats why she's the real queen!

[@erickonasis]

her best song easily

[@Swing93.]

Have you heard Big momma

[@barty2381]

"Queen Of Rox".

[@jesteroony]

Just been to streetsounds uk fresh 86 reunion, gutted Roxanne wasn't there...

[@AudibleThoughtsSlicerman]

FECKIN TOOOOON! memories. love it

[@talizorah7424]

Those beats are massive!!!

[@sladefx]

the one and only roxanne shante. fantastic mc. ironic how the production on this track (raw and underproduced) is what a lot of producers are trying to emulate now.

[@Jay1898]

shante is a great rapper - unlike a lot of male rappers who are mumbling fools where u cannot decipher what the hell they are mumbling on about she is clear, precise and in tune with the music. excellent scratching by marley marl. remember this early 80s era very well - was fresh and exciting unlike the crap rap out there now.

[@donaldjohnson4634]

Who you thought start calling out names first 👀 50 cent😂...I luv Shante she don't have you guessing who she is talking about....She call out names ✌️

[@patrickheidelberg8809]

No other female rapper can't Fuck with her I'll bet a million on her the sister is bad hand's down

[@patrickheidelberg8809]

Damn Right none can Fuck her period

[@RubeyTusdai]

luv her voice is so unique!

[@itsnot4girls]

marley marl the boy,shante the lass top notch

[@-Dash-]

The only female MC I have ever really liked, I played this over and over as a kid cos I loved the attitude... heavy track

[@eutue]

did yall know about the Run DMC diss on here? she pioneered diss raps. check Big Mama by her--it's brutal.

[@motokrack]

rok hard !! always loved this track , verse two could hit any chart fad

[@FILABJBOY]

The best female rapper from back in the day and probably ever since ........

[@hundredthough]

@cookie1176 you're correct. at that time they were all just starting out. roxanne was just as popular as those she names in this record. "bite this" and her records before this held the number spot on all the radio hip hop countdowns. she was a rap super star and down to battle anyone, male or female.

[@digvidguy]

This is my favorite rap song of all time!!

[@Kingkongkyne]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ezsteev63]

Damn good memories!

[@prie71]

Talkin bout how they're so devoted. Bite my rhymes,just swears she wrote it. lol

[@craiggiles8156]

Remember nicking some Lino from a flat that was due to be demolished so our crew could throw down to this. I was about 12. Good times

[@d.j.ghetoswift1206]

Had My Lasonic on blast with this one!

[@NBALiveGirl]

2018, keeping it alive

[@1kidgonebad]

Nice! Nowadays it's okay to bite. No originality. I miss these days

[@correlationimpliescausatio862]

Again, just best rapper.

[@bboysattherave]

Marley on top form, Shante on top form - top track!!

[@jasontrayner4229]

Watched her movie on Netflix. She's intriguing.

[@b.rodclark7349]

'Ain't We Funkin' Now?' by the Brothers Johnson ('78)...more to come

[@marysedge]

Fresh!

[@victorward394]

She can murder most of these so-called rappers of today... She got bars and breath control .

[@lordorrin12]

dope