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Female Rapper Roxanne Shanté Gets Stiffed on Royalties – Warner Music Pays for Her PhD
New York Daily news published an article titled Rapper behind 'Roxanne's Revenge' gets Warner Music to pay for Ph.D on August 23, 2009.
Watch Roxanne's Revenge on YouTube.
It's a great story of how persistence and determination paid off for Shanté. Despite the fact that the record company tried to stiff her out of all her royalties, they couldn't find a way to deny the clause in her contract that stated they would pay for her education for life.
The result, Shanté got a PhD in Psychology at Cornell to the price tag of $217,000 and now she's using her education and rapping/hip hop skills to help urban African-American's express their angst through non-traditional counseling methods. She helps clients to "unleash their inner MC and shout out exactly what's on their mind".
Read the entire article at NewYorkDailyNews.com.
