Salt-N-Pepa is an American ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language hip hop Hip hop is a musical genre which developed as part of hip hop culture, and is defined by key stylistic elements such as rapping, DJing, sampling, scratching and beatboxing. Hip hop began in the South Bronx of New York City in the 1970s. The term rap is often used synonymously with hip hop, but hip hop denotes the practices of an entire subculture trio Categories: Musical groups | Musical trios | Musical groups by numbers from Queens Queens is the largest in area, the second largest in population, and the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States, New York New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over global commerce, finance, media, culture, art, fashion, research, education, and entertainment. As host of the, that were formed in 1985.[1]

The group, consisting of Cheryl James ("Salt", now Cheryl Wray), Sandra Denton ("Pepa"), and Deidra "Dee Dee" Roper (Spinderella), has sold over 15 million albums and singles worldwide. Salt-N-Pepa, one of the best selling female rap acts, have six of their single releases certified either platinum or gold in the United States ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language by the RIAA The Recording Industry Association of America is a trust that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA say "create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States".[citation needed]

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History

The Showstopper

Originally calling themselves Super Nature (for just the first single), James and Denton debuted in 1985 with the single "The Showstopper", an answer record to Doug E. Fresh's hit single "The Show".[1] "The Showstopper" was produced by Hurby Azor. The song utilized a melody from the 1985 film A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a story conveyed with moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry Revenge of the Nerds Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 American comedy film satirizing social life on a college campus. The film stars Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards, with Curtis Armstrong, Ted McGinley, Julia Montgomery, Brian Tochi, Larry B. Scott, John Goodman, and Donald Gibb. The film was directed by Jeff Kanew. The finished recording garnered some airplay on a New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over global commerce, finance, media, culture, art, fashion, research, education, and entertainment. As host of the rap radio program, and the independent Pop Art Records gave it an official release. "The Showstopper" became a modest R&B hit A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings. Despite the current dominance of a few.[1]

Hot, Cool & Vicious

With this success the group's name was changed to Salt-N-Pepa (which they had called themselves in the first verse of the song) and they signed to the independent Next Plateau Records.[1] Roper then joined the group as it's DJ, replacing DJ Latoya Hanson as Spinderella,[2][3][4] and the group's first album Hot, Cool & Vicious was released afterwards in 1986. The album was produced by Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor, Salt's boyfriend at the time and also the group's manager.[1]

Hot, Cool & Vicious provided some moderate R&B hits with the singles In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear on an album. Often, these are the most popular "My Mic Sound Nice", "Tramp", and "Chick On The Side". But when San Francisco The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,977. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the DJ A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc referred to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the source and producer Cameron Paul created a remix A remix is an alternative version of a song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song to "Push It", the b-side of "Tramp", it gave the group their first major hit.[1] "Push It" (US #19, UK #2) became a platinum single in the United States, and a hit in several other countries, and was added to subsequent pressings of Hot, Cool & Vicious. It was nominated for a Grammy Award The Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry. The awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely-viewed televised ceremony, and the strength of that single thrust the album to platinum status in the US with one million sold, making Denton, James, and Roper the first female rap act (group or solo) to go gold or platinum.[citation needed] The album sold 1.3 million copies worldwide.[citation needed]

A Salt with a Deadly Pepa

Salt-N-Pepa's next album release, 1988's A Salt with a Deadly Pepa, contained the Top Ten R&B hit and moderate pop hit "Shake Your Thang", featuring the go-go Go-go is a subgenre of funk that originated in the Washington, D.C., area during the mid- to late-1970s. A handful of bands contributed to the early evolution of the genre, but singer-guitarist Chuck Brown is credited with having developed most of the hallmarks of the style band E.U. They would also receive a Grammy nomination for this single. A moderate R&B hit and minor pop hit were "Everybody Get Up" and "Twist and Shout", respectively; with the latter becoming a major hit in the UK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[note 7] is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land, where it hit #4 in the UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 (such as the BBC) or the Top 75 (such as Music Week Magazine) of,[5] as "Twist and Shout" also became a moderate hit in several other European countries. The album sold about 800,000 worldwide with roughly 600,000 of those in the US, attaining gold status.[citation needed]

Blacks' Magic

The group's third album, Blacks' Magic, was released in March 1990, and was a personal album for the trio on many fronts. Pepa would become the first group member to become pregnant. The trio's producer Azor — often late or a no show to their recording sessions as he was producing other acts — agreed to let the artists work with different producers to finish the album. James and Roper took on producing assignments themselves and the trio also hired different producers, such as Invincible's producer Dana Mozie. This was the first album to feature Roper on vocals as well as DJ'ing. The result was six singles and three hits released by Next Plateau Records: "Expression" (#26 US) was a platinum single which had already been certified gold before it even cracked the Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday. A new chart is compiled and officially, as it had been #1 on the R&B Chart for 8 weeks, and produced by Salt; "Independent"; "I Don't Know" (featuring Kid N Play); "Do You Want Me", (#21 US) certified gold; "Let's Talk About Sex" (#13 US, #2 UK), certified gold and later re-recorded as "Let's Talk About Aids"; and "You Showed Me". The album ultimately sold 1.5 million copies worldwide with a million of those sold in the US.[citation needed] A greatest hits A greatest hits album is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band. To increase the appeal of the album – especially to people who already own the previously released material – it is common to include remixes or alternate takes of popular songs or new material, with new songs often being album called A Blitz of Salt-N-Pepa Hits, featuring remixed versions of songs from the group's first three albums, was subsequently released.

Very Necessary

Salt-N-Pepa's fourth studio album Very Necessary was released in October 1993 on London Records/Polygram PolyGram was the name from 1972 of the major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group.[5] The album featured songwriting and production by Salt, Pepa, Spinderella, and Azor. Buoyed by the hits "Shoop" (#4 US), co-produced by Pepa; "Whatta Man" (#3 US, #7 UK) (featuring En Vogue En Vogue is an American female R&B vocal quartet from Oakland, California assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy); and "None of Your Business", a Top 40 hit, the album eventually sold seven million worldwide with five million of those in the US (5x platinum), making them the first female rap act (solo or group) to have a multi-platinum album. The group toured and Salt went on to co-star in the film A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a story conveyed with moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry Who's the Man?. Pepa co-starred in the film Joe's Apartment. Pepa had also been romantically involved with Treach of the rap group Naughty By Nature. The rap trio also won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1995 for the single "None Of Your Business", thus making them the first female rap Grammy winners. The album is the best selling album by a female rap act.[citation needed]

Brand New

Having now broken away from Azor, Salt-N-Pepa signed with Red Ant Entertainment and undertook production duties once again. Their fifth album, Brand New (1997) released on London/Red Ant through Island Black Music Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group. The label now operates as a division of Island Def Jam Music Group in the United States and as a standalone label in the United Kingdom . Since 2007, there is also a frontline, hit stores a few months later. However, Red Ant filed for bankruptcy Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay its creditors. Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against a business or corporate debtor in an effort to recoup a portion of what they are owed or initiate a restructuring. In the majority of cases, however, bankruptcy is initiated by soon afterward, halting promotion on all its releases, including Salt-N-Pepa's album. The group toured in support of the album, but without any promotion or marketing from the now-defunct label, they only scored minor hits such as "R U Ready" and "Gitty Up". The album sold 700,000 copies worldwide with 500,000 of those in the US; being certified gold in the US.

The cover version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"

In 1998, Salt-N-Pepa recorded a version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" combining both the Marvin Gaye Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late fifties, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960 signing with the Tamla subsidiary of Motown Records/Tammi Terrell and Diana Ross Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 100 million records versions for the movie Our Friend, Martin.

Disbanding

In March 1999, Salt-N-Pepa embarked on a tour and Pepa married Treach of Naughty By Nature on July 27, 1999. Salt-N-Pepa's greatest-hits album, entitled Salt-N-Pepa: The Best Of was released in Europe Europe is one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus region (Specification of borders) and the Black Sea to the southeast. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean and on January 25, 2000. Pepa and Treach would remain married for two years and then divorce on July 31, 2001. The group officially disbanded in 2002.

Salt claimed, upon disbanding, that she had had enough of the music industry and would no longer be involved in it. However, all that seemed to change when she announced that she would be releasing her first solo album, but she subsequently did not release the product. She was featured on the remix version of the Salt City Six's "Shine", on the album Holy South: World Wide, a compilation of Chrisitian rap and Christian R&P (Rhythm & Praise) songs. The album was executive produced by ex-Three 6 Mafia member turned Christian rapper Mr. Del. Salt also revealed in later interviews that she had suffered from bulimia Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binge eating, followed by compensatory behaviors. The most common form is defensive vomiting, sometimes called purging; fasting, the use of laxatives, enemas, diuretics, and over exercising are also common many years ago.

Pepa released an autobiography entitled Let's Talk About Pep in August 2008. The book was co-written by author Karen Hunter and offers a glimpse behind the fame, family, failures, and successes of her life in one of hip-hops most successful acts. It features an introduction by Queen Latifah Dana Elaine Owens , better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, actress and singer. Queen Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award, and an epilogue by Missy Elliott Melissa Arnette Elliott . Better known by her stage name Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, is an American recording artist, producer, actress and former member of the R&B band Sista as well as the Swing Mob collective. With record sales of over seven million in the United States, she is the only female rapper to have six albums certified. To accompany the book, she also launched her own social network for her fans at http://www.LetsTalkAboutPep.com. Pepa appeared on the fifth season of VH-1's The Surreal Life The Surreal Life is a reality television series that sets a select group of past-their-prime celebrities and records them as they live together in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills for two weeks. The format of the show resembles that of The Real World and Road Rules, in that the cameras not only record the castmates' participation in group. She also starred in the reality TV series Let's Talk About Pep on the VH-1 network.

Spinderella is a radio Radio is the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space. Information is carried by systematically changing some property of the radiated waves, such as personality on KKBT 100.3 in Los Angeles Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States, the largest city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of 498.3 square miles (1,290.6 km2). The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population, California California's geography ranges from the Pacific coast to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the east, to Mojave desert areas in the southeast and the Redwood–Douglas fir forests of the northwest. The center of the state is dominated by the Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. California is the most. She hosted The Backspin (with DJ Mo'Dav), a nationally-syndicated weekly radio show featuring old school Old school hip hop describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music , and the music in the period preceding it from which it was directly descended (see Roots of hip hop). Old school hip hop is said to end around 1983-1984 with the emergence of Run DMC, the first new school hip hop group hip hop music Hip hop is a musical genre which developed as part of hip hop culture, and is defined by key stylistic elements such as rapping, DJing, sampling, scratching and beatboxing. Hip hop began in the South Bronx of New York City in the 1970s. The term rap is often used synonymously with hip hop, but hip hop denotes the practices of an entire subculture. She also periodically DJs at various club events.

Reforming

Both Salt and Pepa appeared on VH-1's Hip Hop Honors in November 2004, as the trio were honorees. All three women reunited the following year for the next Hip Hop Honors program and performed "Whatta Man" with En Vogue En Vogue is an American female R&B vocal quartet from Oakland, California assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy. It was the trio's first performance in six years. Salt-N-Pepa reformed in 2007. All three women now have children. Spinderella has a daughter with former NBA The National Basketball Association, often abbreviated to the NBA, is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America which composes thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada. It is an active member of USA Basketball , which is recognized by the International player Kenny Anderson. Her daughter has appeared on MTV MTV is an American cable television network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs. Today, MTV rarely play music videos, and primarily broadcasts a variety of popular culture and reality television shows targeted at adolescents and's My Super Sweet Sixteen My Super Sweet 16 is an MTV reality series documenting the lives of teenagers, usually in the United States, Canada and UK, who usually have wealthy parents that throw huge coming of age celebrations. Parties include the quinceañera , the sweet 16, and other birthdays including a My Super Sweet 21 (which was broadcast during MTV's Spring Break in 2008. Pepa has a son and daughter, Salt has a daughter and son.

On October 14, 2007, The Salt-n-Pepa Show debuted on VH1. Pepa initially started the formation of the series as she had previously appeared on the network in The Surreal Life. The Salt-n-Pepa Show chronicled events in the lives of Salt and Pepa as they work out past issues and return to the recording studio. It also has featured Spinderella in several episodes. Later in 2008, the trio performed with MC Lyte Lana Michele Moorer , better known by her stage name MC Lyte is rap artist who has scored several Rap and R&B hits. She has released several albums since 1988, Yo-Yo Yo-Yo is a Grammy nominated American hardcore rapper and actress. Much of her music has advocated female empowerment, denouncing the frequent sexism found in rap music. Yo-Yo dubbed her rap crew the IBWC, which stood for the Intelligent Black Woman's Coalition, and Lady of Rage at the BET Hip Hop Awards The BET Hip Hop Awards are an annual awards show, hosted by BET, for hip hop performers, producers and music video directors. The awards ceremony began in 2006. The first ceremony was held on November 12, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Fox Theatre and was first aired November 15 on BET. It was hosted by comedian Katt Williams. The second ceremony.

On May 9, 2009 Salt-N-Pepa performed a concert in Honolulu Honolulu is the capital of and the most populous census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and the county are consolidated, known as the City and County of Honolulu, and the city and county is designated as the entire island. The, Hawaii The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian Island chain, which comprises hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 miles . At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight "main islands" are (from the northwest to southeast) Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and Hawaiʻi. The last is by along with SWV and Lisa Lisa. The name of the show was 'Ladies of the 80s'. They performed at the Good Vibrations festival in Australia in mid-February 2010.[6] They are due to headline the South West Four Festival, Clapham Common, London on August 29, 2010.[7]

Discography

Main article: Salt-n-Pepa discography

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 842-843. ISBN 1-84195-017-3.
  2. ^ Roberts, Michael (1999-04-01). "Seasoned Performers". Denver Westword. http://www.westword.com/1999-04-01/music/seasoned-performers/. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
  3. ^ Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1999). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Basic Civitas Books. pp. 1661. ISBN 0465000711.
  4. ^ "Da Original". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Da+Original. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
  5. ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 480. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  6. ^ "SALT-N-PEPA - Good Vibrations". http://www.goodvibrationsfestival.com.au/Sydney/Artists/SALTNPEPA. Retrieved 2010-20-01.
  7. ^ "SALT-N-PEPA - South West Four Festival August 2010". http://www.southwestfour.com/artists1.aspx. Retrieved 2010-28-05.

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