With heavy hearts, AllHipHop can confirm the passing of legendary rapper Kangol Kid of the seminal Hip-Hop group UTFO. The rapper, who shot to fame as a member of UTFO with the hit song “Roxanne ...

Stewart Copeland didn’t think much of “Roxanne” the first time he heard it, admitting he considered the tune a “throwaway song.” The Police drummer was recently a guest on The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, ...

Kangol Kid, a member of the Brooklyn hip-hop group UTFO whose 1984 song “Roxanne, Roxanne” sparked a legendary rap rivalry, has died at the age of 55. The emcee/producer born Shaun Fequiere’s death ...

As a member of the group UTFO, he was heard on one of the most influential and widely imitated songs of commercial hip-hop’s early years. By Jon Caramanica Kangol Kid, who as a rapper in the group ...

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, ...

Stewart Copeland didn’t think much of “Roxanne” the first time he heard it, admitting he considered the tune a “throwaway song.” The Police drummer was recently a guest on The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, ...