Knowra Salt-N-Pepa Salt-N-Pepa Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip-hop group formed in 1985 by Cheryl James and Sandra Denton, later joined by Deidra Roper. The group helped bring women rappers into mainstream popular music with hits including “Push It” and “Shoop.”
Cheryl James : Cheryl James, known as Salt, is an American rapper and a founding member of Salt-N-Pepa. She co-founded the group and supplied one half of its signature vocal partnership.
Push It : “Push It” is a 1987 Salt-N-Pepa song that became an international hit after its 1988 re-release. Its syncopated beat and chant made the group’s breakthrough widely recognizable.
Hip-hop music : Hip-hop music is a genre built around rhythmic vocal delivery and musical practices including sampling, DJing, and beat production. Salt-N-Pepa developed within hip-hop while adapting its sounds for mainstream radio.
Women in hip-hop : Women in hip-hop are female artists and participants who create, perform, and shape hip-hop culture. Salt-N-Pepa became a prominent model for women pursuing rap careers.
Roxanne Shanté : Roxanne Shanté is an American rapper who emerged from Queensbridge, New York, in the mid-1980s. Her early career offers a contrasting path for women entering rap before Salt-N-Pepa’s pop breakthrough.
Sandra Denton : Sandra Denton, known as Pepa, is an American rapper and a founding member of Salt-N-Pepa. Her assertive delivery helped define the group’s early records and stage presence.
Shoop : “Shoop” is a 1993 Salt-N-Pepa song from the album Very Necessary. The flirtatious single became one of the trio’s defining hits of the 1990s.
Sampling (music) : Sampling is the use of a portion of an existing sound recording in a new musical work. Samples from funk and soul records supplied recognizable hooks for several hits.
Queen Latifah : Queen Latifah is an American rapper, singer, and actor whose career began in hip-hop in the late 1980s. Her success followed Salt-N-Pepa’s breakthrough and expanded the range of women’s voices in rap.
The Sequence : The Sequence was an American female rap group signed to Sugar Hill Records in the late 1970s. Their earlier chart success shows that women’s rap groups predated Salt-N-Pepa.
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