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Roxanne Roxanne by UTFO
My 7th grade boyfriend listened to “Roxanne Roxanne” constantly (and also — I just remembered this — RUN DMC’s “King of Rock” record). Everyone loved “Roxanne Roxanne,” the rap song that spawned answer tracks like “Roxanne’s Revenge” and “The Real Roxanne.” There was some other about-Roxanne-song in which the scorned rapper calls Roxanne the kind of girl who has dirt between her toes. That’s the one thing I remember about it because I was the kind of girl who had dirt between her toes.
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