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 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, ...