Salt-N-Pepa Speak on Past Success

Honestly, I remember getting hard-ons watching Salt-N-Pepa videos back when I was a young'n. lol! The first female rap group that got international recognition. They were sexy, they could rap, and had some message in their music too. Maybe the message was mostly for females like them, but they sure had message in their music. The trio was a force to recon with in the late 80s and early 90s; Salt and Pepa on the mic, and DJ Spinderella doing her thing. Their most popular hits were Whatta Man, Shoop, and Let's Talk About Sex. Their fourth album, Very Necessary (1993) is still one of the most successful rap albums by a female (or female rap group) in Hip Hop history, selling over five million copies to date. In a recent interview with Billboard, Salt 'N' Pepa spoke about their past success and impact in Hip Hop.

"We were owning it and inspiring a lot of women," Spinderella said. "A lot of our music had a message. And the thing that really motivated us during that time was how many women would come to us and say we inspired them. We were more encouraged by the fact that we were actually impacting a generation of women. We were really feeding off of that.

"Salt-N-Pepa was really raising the bar and we were the standard for women in Hip Hop. There was MC Lyte, there was YoYo and we all created this standard. The door was open and that allowed for women like Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim to walk through and then Eve and Missy. Even TLC, they had that R&B and Hip Hop flow. Today, the door is still open but the ceiling doesn't seem to be as high. But what we were doing was attacking issues as well as being cute and sexy. We were hitting issues and still seemed like the girls next door, so people responded to that. And it was global. We were that voice for the urban woman." (HipHopDX)