It's time for Hip Hop history class y'all. Before there was a Salt N Pepa, MC Lyte or a Queen Latifah there was Roxanne Shante, who shot to fame after she recorded an answer track to UTFO's classic rap Roxanne Roxanne. [<--please report to Youtube for further research] Roxanne Shante signed a recording contract with Warner Music when she was 14 and you know what happened next: she got stiffed on her royality checks and ripped off by lawyers, managers and label execs. Still, Rox was able to enforce a forgotten clause in her orginal contract where Warner had agreed to pay for her education for life. In 2001 Roxanne earned a Ph.D in psychology from Cornell University and forced Warner to stick to their agreement by threatning to go public with the story after they initally balked at paying her $217,000 tution.
