Sat 'N' Pepa: The Showstoppers
Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 5 November 1988
'To Know Us Is To Love Us' claim Salt 'n' Pepa, one of rap's most unlikely success stories, whose A Salt With A Deadly Pepa LP went platinum in America. Ian Gittins met them in New York and discovered two young women trying to cope with their growing popularity and the pressures of celebrity.
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