From the start the duo set about tearing down the standards and stereotypes of how women in Hip-Hop should be, owning their sexuality and empowering themselves through it long before anyone else thought to. The single was discovered by Pop Art Records and became a hit on the R&B charts. James and Denton formed the group as a duo initially, debuting in 1985 with the single “The Showstopper” under the name Super Nature.
Arriving at a time when hip-hop was considered a fad and would be finished by the end of the 1980’s, they were a huge part of the genre’s legitimization in the public eye and would go on to have the biggest selling album by a female rap act with their fourth effort “Very Necessary” and also be the first female winners of a Grammy award in a rap category for their single “None Of Your Business”.
Salt-N-Pepa are trailblazers, pure and simple.
