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 Biography
| | Salt 'N Pepa, consisting of Salt (Cheryl Jones), Pepa (Sandi Denton) and DJ Spinderella (Dee Dee Roper), are the most popular femme rap group extant, repeatedly platinum in a field dominated by macho bullshit. No mean feat. But thought the group deals with what passes in the genre for a feminist angle--a basic self-determination stance--what's really kept them on the top of the heap is that they're hot babes who sing sexy songs.
Salt and Pepa met when they were nursing students at Queens college in the mid-'80s. Their first release, recorded under the name Super Nature, was "The Showstopper," written and produced by Hurby "Luvbug" Azor as a response to Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's "The Show." By the time of their first album, Hot Cool & Vicious, they'd adopted the Salt 'N Pepa moniker. The first single off the album, "Tramp" (an update of an old Otis Redding/ Clara Thomas song) was successful, but it was the disc's b-side, "Push It,"--frankly sexual and suitably hooky--that put them on the road to becoming rap superstars. Cool went platinum. In '87 "Spinderella" Roper joined the group, just in time for them to release a classic case of sophomore slump, A Salt With A Deadly Pepa--a solid effort from which none of the singles took off, leaving them to settle for mere gold. But the group rebounded with album number three, Blacks' Magic, which had three hit singles: "Expression," "Do You Want Me" and "Let's Talk About Sex."
Since then, Very Necessary ('93) and Brand New * ('97) have kept them aconsistently best-selling group, their persona solidified into strong but not threatening, sexy and fun. |
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