Fresh, Azor called the duo Supernature and their recording “The Showstopper. Encouraging James and Denton to record a number to “answer ” a big hit rap single at the time, “The Show ” by Doug E. Azor, a student at New York City ’s Center forthe Media Arts, needed to make a record to fulfill a class assignment. Not long afterwards the two took jobs as telephone customer-service representatives for Sears Roebuck, where fellow employee Azor asked for help on his midterm project. In 1985 the duo attended Queensborough Community College, where one was in nursing, the other in liberal arts. Although neither member of the group has a musical background, they are both natural performers who came together by chance. Denton ’s father died in 1983, leaving Sandy and her eight siblings in the care of her mother, a nurse. James ’s mother is a bank manager her father is a transit worker. Salt-N-Pepa are middle-class young women from Queens, New York, who grew up in an urban environment. melodies with teasing, street-savvy raps about maturity, independence from men and sexual responsibility. Thigpen in Time nailed down Salt-N-Pepa ’s subject matter, reporting that they “punctuate soul-tinged R.-and-B. Recorded first song, “The Showstopper, ” as a college project for lyricist and then-coworker Herby Azor signed with Next Plateau Records recorded “Push It, ” which went gold, 1988.Īddresses: Record company -Next Plateau Records, 1650 Broadway, Suite 1103, New York, NY 10019.ĭucer -Herby “Hurby Love Bug ” Azor -and borrowed “samples ” from the music of Otis Redding, the Kinks, and Devo, to name a few, combine with a strong beat to create a mightily popular sound that earned rave reviews like this from New Statesman contributor Simon Reynolds: “Wholly inconsistent styles and ambiences, plucked from random points throughout pop history, are bolted together … affording the listener plenty of jouissance, ecstatic confusion. James and Denton worked as telephone customer-service representatives for Sears Roebuck until group was formed, c. Rap performers and recording artists, 1985. Group comprised of rapper Cheryl James (Salt), daughter of a bank manager and a transit worker rapper Sandy Denton (Pepa), daughter of a nurse and DJ Dee Dee Roper (Spinderella) James and Denton were raised in Queens, NY both attended Queensborough Community College. ” Lyrics courtesy of their pro- For the Record … ”Īvoiding the old-fashioned, frivolous image of girl groups, Salt-N-Pepa call their particular brand of street poetry “pop-rap.
” The single got the serious airplay necessary to open the way for other female rappers like Finesse, who told Billboard, “In a way it ’s good that they came first because they had to go through a lot of interviews and speculation while people just pushed them off. Regarded as something of a phenomenon in the record industry, Salt-N-Pepa put women in the forefront of male-dominated rap music with the critically and financially successful “Push It. Salt, also known as Cheryl James, and Pepa -nee Sandy Denton -are members of the first female rap group to cross over to the Billboard Pop Chart with the gold single “Push It, ” from their first album, Hot, Cool & Vicious, which went platinum in 1988.
Rap is for everyone, ” Salt-N-Pepatold David Denicolo in Glamour. We ’re not just out to please our own crowd. “We don ’t do hard-core rap music, because not everyone understands that.
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