Nia Long Casted To Be In Roxanne Shante Biopic

Nia Long will play the role of Roxanne Shante’s mom in the upcoming Roxanne Roxanne biopic, which Forest Whitaker and Pharrell are co-producing.

Shante confirmed as much in a photo posted on Instagram with the caption: “When your sister Nia Long is playing your Mama MissPeggy in the 80's You can only feel so honored and so so blessed.” Dope producers Nina Yang Bongiovi and former VIBE editor-in-chief Mimi Valdés are also co-producing the film, Shante said in a recent Jezebel interview.

On the WWETV Official Youtube Channel and the video below you can see a rare video of Roxanne Shante, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, and Michie Mee on Queens of Rap short documentary during the late 1980's. It was a time when women were burning the path of their own which led the way for today's artists such as Nicki Minaj.

Essence reports that the biopic “will chronicle the infamous Roxanne Hip-Hop Wars that spawned as a result of the track and take viewers back to the early days of hip-hop culture in the ‘80s.”

The movie will also feature actors portraying several other hip-hop icons including Nas, Biz Markie and Kurtis Blow. Nina Yang Bongiovi, Mimi Valdés, and Erica Brady will join Forest Whitaker as co-producers, according to an earlier report from ShowBiz

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