| Salt-N-Pepa Salt-N-Pepa came onto the music scene in 1986 and went on to sell over 10 million albums worldwide. Their 1986 debut album, Hot, Cool & Vicious received some airplay on R&B stations thanks to the songs "My Mic Sound Nice" and "Tramp". But when San Francisco DJ and producer Cameron Paul created a remix of "Push It", it gave the group their first major hit single, quickly becoming a platinum Top 20 pop hit, receiving a Grammy nomination, and helping the album reach Platinum album status. Their third album, Blacks' Magic, was released in March 1990, and became a breakthrough hit. Singles.like "Do You Want Me", and "Let's Talk About Sex" helped the album became a best seller. Salt-N-Pepa's fourth album Very Necessary, released in September 1993 was their most successful album to date. Buoyed by the singles "Shoop" (their first U.S. Top Ten), "Whatta Man" (with En Vogue and also a Top Ten hit) and "None of Your Business", the album eventually went four times platinum in the U.S. The group toured and Salt went on to co-star in the motion picture Who's the Man?, and Pepa co-starred in the movie Joe's Apartment. The trio also won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1995 for "None Of Your Business", making them the first female rap Grammy winners. Cheryl James and Sandy Denton appeared on VH1's Hip Hop Honors in November 2004. Salt-n-Pepa (and Spinderella) reunited the following year for the next Hip Hop Honors program, singing Whatta Man with En Vogue—their first performance in six years. Spinderella was a radio personality on KKBT 100.3 in Los Angeles . The Backspin, a nationally-syndicated weekly radio show featuring old school hip hop. Pepa apeared on the fifth season of VH-1's The Surreal Life and placed third in The Surreal Life: Fame Games... [read more] | 
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