Roxanne Shante

thumb Lolita Shanté Gooden (born March 8, 1969), better known by her stage name Roxanne Shanté, is an American rapper. Quotes I feel like it was right on time. It happened at a time when I could truly appreciate it. I don't think I would have appreciated or understood the magnitude or the importance of it if I was younger or even if it would have happened to me at any other time in my life when there was so much going on. It fell into place after I had already gotten married and I had already gotten stable with where I was working. I'm already on a radio show, I’m loving life, and life is loving me. The thing that I would do differently is I would have had an attorney. I would have had someone go over my contracts. I would have had someone tell me what were good deals and what were bad deals. I would have had someone else do management so that this way, I would understand that record companies and management and attorneys all need to be separate. They can’t be best friends. I would have definitely done that differently. As far as changing anything performance-wise or being Roxanne Shanté, I wouldn't have changed a thing because I enjoy being me. I think that's what people see when I go on stage. When they see me in the crowd, they see that I enjoy being there. If you were going to use the metrics or if you were going to use an example, then I would say I would be a prime example of what Paid In Full can do to someone's life. After Paid In Full, not only did I receive a Grammy and an NAACP award, but I've also become one of the most sought-after keynote speakers. There's been so many accolades, and it has opened up so many doors. Personally, the financial benefit of it is it allows me the financial freedom to be able to do things in my career that I wouldn't normally do because I need to work. It allowed me to say no to some things that I would have said yes to just because they were going to pay me and because I knew that I needed to be there. Now it's a fact of me being able to pick and choose where I perform, who I perform for, what I want to do, and when I want to do it. Roxanne Shanté wishes the world had shown D’Angelo the same love before he passed: “It might’ve made a difference” External links Category:Rappers from the United States Category:Living people Category:1969 births Category:Women from the United States Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:People from Queens, New York