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Salt-N-Pepa

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Salt-N-Pepa: Femme Fatales

Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 3 January 1987

If you thought rap was misogyny central, listen up. SALT-N-PEPA are bitchin' back on behalf of the gals. Frank Owen gets an earful. ...

Salt 'n' Pepa: Cool, Hot & Vicious (Next Plateau)

Review by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 27 January 1987

I DON'T KNOW about you but I've been waiting quite a while for a girl rap group to duplicate the success of platinum playboys like ...

Salt 'N' Pepa: Hot, Cool And Vicious (Next Plateau)

Review by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 31 January 1987

THE SPICE IS RIGHT ...

Salt 'n' Pepa: Look Ma Top Of The World

Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 26 March 1988

SALT 'N' PEPA WILL DO ANYTHING TO HAVE EVERYTHING. WITH THEIR NEW SINGLE, 'PUSH IT', ACCELERATING UP THE AMERICAN CHARTS IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THEIR ...

Salt 'N' Pepa: Cookie Cruets

Profile and Interview by John McCready, New Musical Express, 2 April 1988

Rap moves fast. Blink and you'll miss a ship-full of 12-inch singles each one pointing in a dozen new directions. With almost ten years or ...

Indie Labels: Players With the Rap Attack Making the Most Impact — and It's Not Just for the Money

Report by Vernon Gibbs, Billboard, 18 June 1988

INDEPENDENT LABELS have always been critical to the exposure of new black music. In the '50s, labels like Specialty and Chess gave pioneers like Little ...

Salt 'N' Pepa: Scratching with Thatcher

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 9 July 1988

SALT 'N' PEPA and Spinderella, those crazy female purveyors of the street beat meet Mrs T for tea in Downing Street. STEVEN WELLS asked them ...

Salt 'N Pepa: Shakin' Seasons

Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 31 August 1988

It's hard being a woman rapper in a man's world, but Salt 'N Pepa have made it. Adam Sweeting found them in Oklahoma City. ...

New albums from Stetsasonic, Masters Of Ceremony, Eric B. & Rakim and Salt 'N' Pepa

Review by Randall Grass, Musician, October 1988

Stetsasonic: In Full Gear (Tommy Boy); Masters Of Ceremony: Dynamite (4th & Broadway); Eric B. & Rakim: Follow the Leader (UNI); Salt 'N' Pepa: <i>A ...

Sat 'N' Pepa: The Showstoppers

Interview by 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 ...

Salt 'N' Pepa: Short Back and Asides

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 28 April 1990

SALT 'N' PEPA are about to curl up and dye. The first of their chain of Salt 'N' Pepa beauty salons will soon open at ...

What Has Happened To Salt'n'Pepa?

Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 16 May 1990

★ ONCE THEY WERE A GIRLIE RAPPING TRIO WHO STOLE THE SHOW AT THE SMASH HITS POLL WINNERS PARTY. ★ Then they disappeared off the ...

Salt 'N' Pepa: Shakin' Sweet

Report and Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 25 August 1990

Is this the end of rap's top pumptresses SALT 'N' PEPA? Bored with making millions and being reviled by all the hard rappin' 'bitches' they ...

Salt 'N' Pepa: My Condiments To The Chef

Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 27 July 1991

The most successful female rap group ever, SALT 'N' PEPA have come a long way since the cartoon innuendo of 'Push It'. Now they're busy ...

Salt-N-Pepa: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 7 December 1991

MEN, ACCORDING to the rapteuses, Salt 'n' Pepa, are good for one thing. "And sometimes they're not even good for that," Salt observed, on stage ...

Sisters Are Rapping It For Themselves

Report and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 16 January 1992

In the misogynistic world of rap, anybody who's not one of the boys is a whore or more genially a bitch. But even the female ...

Salt 'N' Pepa

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1992

Salt is a member of New York rap act Salt 'N' Pepa, makers of hits such as 'Push It' and 'Let's Talk About Sex'. Of ...

Salt-N-Pepa: Too Live Cruet

Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 18 December 1993

From girls to women, SALT-N-PEPA have moved on from their Svengali-led days to create their own agenda of single motherhood, sex and answering back to ...

Salt-N-Pepa: Condiment-al as Anything

Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 13 December 1997

And you thought Girl Power was a new thang? Oh no, SALT-N-PEPA invented it a decade ago. The Maker catches up with the trio in ...

Salt-N-Pepa

Interview by John Lewis, Hotline, August 2010

IT'S BEEN 25 years since the rappers we know and love as Salt-N-Pepa burst into our consciousness. They are now forty-something women, living in suburban ...

I Love the '90s: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 3 October 2017

It may have been a carnival of naff nostalgia, but thousands of middle-aged ravers came to party like it was 1995. ...

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