![]() How many of the original “Push It” video eight-ball jackets, originally designed by your friend Christopher Martin (Play of Kid ’n Play), do you each own? There was a long period after Salt-N-Pepa’s biggest hits and before Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, when the route for women in hip-hop was limited. PEPA We get to take ’em back to college, when it all started and we making $200 per show. We had struggles in our relationships and picked the wrong men over and over. ![]() What ended up being important was a story of two women in a male-dominated industry who were friends first, who became business partners, who faced a lot of struggles to be heard, to be taken seriously - from the record company to our producer Hurby. SALT Legal restrictions, infringing on other people’s rights that people had to sign off on, budget restrictions. What I found frustrating - I’m just keeping it real - it was quite a few restrictions when you’re making a movie that I was not ready for. How much writing did you both do for the script, and did you work separately or together? “Pep called and was like, ‘Girl, we have to do our movie before someone else does.’” Latifah, an old friend, attended meetings where they picked the director (Mario Van Peebles) and screenwriter (Abdul Williams of “The Bobby Brown Story”). “It was something me and Pep had been shopping around,” Salt said. ![]() The film - which they executive produced along with Queen Latifah and others - begins and ends on a note of unity, showing their 2005 reunion for a VH1 event. The group’s longtime D.J., Spinderella, is a character in the film, too, but the biopic doesn’t cover her unsuccessful lawsuit against the duo, which was filed in 2019. It was just the beginning: James became Salt and Denton became Pepa the group changed its name and scored 10 hits on the Hot 100, including the ’80s dance classic “Push It” and the ’90s sex anthem “Shoop,” becoming one of the few superstar female acts of hip-hop’s male-dominated golden era.įixtures on the I Love the ’90s tour circuit in recent years, the two tell their story in a new Lifetime biopic, “Salt-N-Pepa,” out Saturday, that captures both the rush of touring the world and the conflicts that broke them up in 2002. While selling warranties on washing machines from a Sears call center in Queens, the friends Cheryl James and Sandra Denton came together as a hip-hop duo called Super Nature with the staccato 1985 track “The Show Stoppa (Is Stupid Fresh).” When they first heard it on the radio, they danced together on top of a car. ![]()
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