{"id":3992,"date":"2018-02-24T08:54:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2018-02-24T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:54:01","slug":"roxanne-shante-film-ready-for-netflix-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/headlines\/roxanne-shante-film-ready-for-netflix-release.htm","title":{"rendered":"Roxanne Shante Film Ready for Netflix Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I&#8217;ve been hearing about a film on the life of Roxanne Shante for the last decade.\u00a0 It appears it&#8217;s finally ready for release courtesy of Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the official info on the film and check out the trailer below.<\/p>\n<p><em>Life is a battle. In the early 1980s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita &#8220;Roxanne Shante&#8221; Gooden 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 streets. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Get ready for ROXANNE ROXANNE, a new Netflix Original Film from the producers of &#8220;Fruitvale Station&#8221; and &#8220;Dope&#8221;, written\/directed by Michael Larnell and starring Mahershala Ali, Nia Long and introducing Chant\u00e9 Adams. Streaming only on Netflix March 23rd.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"838\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IKA8H_LolNM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the trailer for the new Netflix film on the life of Roxanne Shante.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}