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How Salt-N-Pepa Went From College Students to Best-Selling Female Rap Group

When Cheryl James and Sandra Denton met as first-year students at Queensborough Community College, school was the last thing on their minds.

“We were big time screw-ups,” James told The Guardian. “We never went to class. We’d just hang around in the lunchroom playing cards, and we formed this amazing friendship. Because we were polar opposites, we fascinated each other.”

It was the strength of that yin-and-yang relationship that turned the school friends into international sensation Salt-n-Pepa — the first female rappers to be certified platinum — thanks to the fearless way they dove into topics so seldom talked about at the time.

More than three decades after they formed, their music — including hits “Push It,” “Let’s Talk About Sex,” “Whatta Man” and “Shoop” — still hold their place in history as some of the most innovative and breakthrough sounds and lyrics of their time, and remain just as relevant today than ever before.

Denton ‘auditioned’ for the group while working at Sears

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In the mid–1980s, Brooklyn–native Cheryl “Salt” James met Queens–native Jamaican rapper Sandra “Pepa” Denton, both studying nursing at Queensborough Community College. The pair became close friends and co–workers at Sears. Another co-worker Hurby Luv Bug was studying record production at the Center of Media Arts and asked Cheryl and Sandra to record for him as a class project. This resulted in the single “The Showstopper” (an answer record to Doug E. Fresh’s The Show) in late–1985 and reached No. 46 on the Billboard R&B chart. In September 1986, They signed to Next Plateau Records, recruited female high-school student-DJ named “Spinderella” and adopted the stage name Salt ‘N’ Pepa. Riding on the success of their saucy exchange, they changed their name to Salt-N-Pepa and released their 1986 album Hot Cool & Vicious, which yielded the hit song “Push It.” The group went on to become the best-selling female rap group and icons of their era. The group officially disbanded in 2002 and reunited on September 22, 2005, and gave their first performance in six years. They sang Whatta

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Salt-N-Pepa Biography

Hip-Hop Bio:

Salt (Cheryl James, 8 March 1964, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA) and Pepa (b. Sandra Denton, 9 November 1969, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies) grew up in the Queens district of New York City. They became telephone sales girls and envisioned a career in nursing until fellow colleague and part-time producer Hurby ‘Luv Bug’ Azor(also produced for/managed Kid-N-Play & Kwame) stepped in. He asked them to rap for his group the Super Lovers (credited on record as Supernature) on the answer record to Doug E. Fresh’s ‘The Show’. They started recording as Salt ‘N’ Pepa (correctly printed as Salt-N-Pepa) which was adapted from the Super Nature recording ‘Showstopper’, along with DJ Latoya Hanson in late 1985. At that time they were under Azor’s guidance, and released singles such as ‘I’ll Take Your Man’, ‘It’s My Beat’ and ‘Tramp’, the latter a clever revision of the old Otis Redding / Carla Thomas duet. They also used the female DJ Spinderella aka Dee Dee Roper (b. Deidre Roper, 3 August 1971, New York, USA), backing singers and male er