Hip-hop has lost one of its veterans. Kangol Kid of the group UTFO has passed away after battling stage four cancer. He was first diagnosed with cancer in February 2021. He was 55-years-old. In ...

“Please forgive me for not returning calls and more,” Kangol wrote. “Things have become, and are becoming a little more difficult than imagined. I’ve been admitted again for complications related to ...

Kangol Kid of the pioneering hip-hop group UTFO (Untouchable Force Organization) has reportedly passed away following a battle with colon cancer. He was 55. The MC's death was reported by Rolling ...

As a member of the Brooklyn rap group UTFO, Kangol Kid helped craft one of hip-hop’s earliest viral hits, “Roxanne, Roxanne,” a self-deprecating jam about a fictional woman — “she’s an apple, a pear, ...

Lolita Shanté Gooden, aka Roxanne Shanté, is a hip-hip icon, a living legend, if you will. Netflix has released Roxanne Roxanne, a biopic that chronicles Shanté’s humble beginnings in Queens, N.Y., in ...

The year was 1984. The location was the Queensbridge Houses, a public housing project in New York City. Battle rap prodigy Roxanne Shanté, born Lolita Shanté Gooden and then 14 years old, was carrying ...

It looks like there is a Roxanne Shanté biopic in the works and we are here for it. The Sundance Institute announced that a Michael Larnell film about the hip-hop legend—Roxanne Roxanne—had been ...

Roxanne Shanté will soon be the first solo female rapper to receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. According to the Grammy website, Shanté, along with Prince, Frankie Beverly and others will ...

Kangol Kid has passed away after a battle with stage 4 colon cancer. Veteran New York promoter Van Silk (who is undergoing treatment for the same cancer) confirmed the news to HipHopDX. “RIP KANGOL ...

Kangol Kid, the rapper and breakdancer who founded the old-school hip-hop group UTFO, has died after being diagnosed with stage four colon cancer earlier this year, HipHopDX reports. He was 55. Born ...