Rap icon Roxanne Shante received her first lifetime Achaievement award at the Grammies. She is the first female artist mc to receive 

the award. Roxanne Shante is known for being in the group UTFO, Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté, who pushed the art form forward as a teenage battle rapper in the 1980s.“I would have never thought that I was going to get a Grammy,” Shanté, 55, told NBC News this week ahead of Saturday’s ceremony, where lifetime achievement and other special awards will be presented. “My music days were over. For me to receive a lifetime award, not for my music but for the decisions that I made, is amazing,” Shanté said. “I’m here for deciding to do the right thing by everybody else, even when so many people decided to do the wrong thing by me.”

Her story goes back to hip-hop’s formative years, in the early ’80s. By age 10, she was becoming a fixture in New York City’s underground rap scene; at 13, she was an undefeated battle rapper.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ROXANNE SHANTE. THAT AWARD IS WELL DESERVED.