Black Music Month: Old-school hip-hop’s 20 greatest songs

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No. 13 “Roxanne, Roxanne” by U.T.F.O.

A song that became the centerpiece of a feud and inadvertently sparked a fad, this playful track about a stuck up woman became an entity unto itself in the mid-80s and kicked off the “Roxanne Wars” with Roxanne Shante and the Real Roxanne.


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Todd "Stereo" Williams, entertainment writer based in New York City. He co-founded Thirty 2 Oh 1 Productions, an indie film company.
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