I mean I've heard mention according to my screenname (though I chose mine for entirely different erasons) but I've never heard of salt n pepa..?
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the year was 1986 and, despite its international popularity, critics were saying that rap music was a fad that would not endure into the next decade. people within the industry, while more confident of its longevity, proclaimed that rap was an genre in which women would never excel. now, more than ten years after their debut, cheryl james, sandi denton and dee dee roper—collectively known as salt-n-pepa—are able to enjoy the last laugh as they ride the success of their latest release brand new.\n\ncheryl james, a brooklyn native, and sandi denton, a transplant from kingston jamaica, met while studying nursing at queens borough community college in the mid eighties. both women also worked as telephone sales representatives for sears, alongside fellow undiscovered talents kid 'n' play and martin lawrence. but it was writer/producer hurby azor who would launch their career by asking them to participate in a class project. azor, a student at the center for media arts was assigned the task of producing a record…a task he would complete with aplomb. cheryl and sandi were recruited to perform the vocals for "the showstopper", an azor-penned reply to doug e. fresh's "the show". the record earned azor an "a" and attracted the attention of pop art records, who released the song in 1985.\n\nin 1986, having changed their name from super nature to salt-n-pepa, cheryl and sandi signed with independent next plateau records and released hot, cool & vicious—written and produced by hurby "the lovebug" azor. the album produced a string of successful singles, but it was not until d.j.s across the country started flipping over the single "tramp"—a rewrite of the 1967 otis redding/carla thomas song—that the group went supernova. "push it", the notorious flipside that cheryl and sandi have since declared was just a joke, became an overnight hit with it's catchy hook and rump-shaking rhythm. 1987 also witnessed a change in the line-up with dee dee roper replacing latoya hanson as the women's personal lady dj, spinderella. because azor holds the copyrights to the names "salt", "pepa" and "spinderella", hanson continues her career under the name "the original". roper, still a teenager at the time, took a tutor with her on tour and observed a curfew that prevented any post-performance rabble-rousing. while she is not featured in the song, the new spinderella made her debut in the group's second video, "push it". in the end, "push it" sold over a million copies, topped the r&b and rap charts and earned the women their first grammy nomination for best rap performance.\n\nsalt-n-pepa's second album, a salt with a deadly pepa, was put together in record time in an effort to appease fans hungry for more first-class rap and record executives desperate to capitalize on the success of s-n-p. admittedly hastily-produced, a salt with a deadly pepa did not fail to meet expectations by any means. reworks of isley brother songs like "twist and shout" and "it's your thing" (molded into the rap classic "shake your thang" by cheryl and sandi) established salt-n-pepa as one of the hottest rap acts around…male or female. doubling the success of hot, cool & vicious, this album went double platinum, setting the stage for even greater things to come.\n\nunder pressure to continue producing rapid-fire hits, and noticing that hurby had his hands full between salt-n-pepa and kid 'n' play, cheryl decided to pitch in by beginning work on a new single. this "can do" attitude laid the groundwork for the creative control that the women would eventually take. on black's magic, salt held producing credit on four songs, spinderella co-produced another and all three of the women contributed lyrics. "expession", salt's first production and the first single fr
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i haven"t heard about that
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I have not heard of any others
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Sorry ... tried a bunch but never heard of this one
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Never heard of it before...
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no i have never heard of this a day in my life
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I have never heard of it..try ask.com
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Sorry, never heard of it.
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No, sorry never heard of that site, sounds good though.
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I have absolutely never heard of it, but I am looking forward to the responses of people who have.
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Never heard of it, sorry.
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Sorry, never heard of it
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To be honest I have never heard of this company. If I were you I would do some research into it and not count on the answers here...D
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I never heard of it but ILL help ok
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I have never heard it called that.
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ive never heard of that before
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Is it so important that you really had to use a second screen name? SERIOUSLY. Direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi#History