This resulted in radio stations getting phone calls requesting “The Show Stoppa” by Salt & Pepper. However, they changed their name because in “The Show Stoppa” they rap the lines “Right now I’m gonna show you how it’s supposed to be ‘Cause we, the Salt and Pepa MCs”. The duos’ original name was Super Nature. The duo recorded their first single “The Show Stoppa”, which was a minor R&B hit in ’85. In 1985, James and Denton were working as customer service representatives at Sears. Both James and Denton attended nursing school at Queensborough Community College in Queens. While she was a child she was sexually molested. She moved to join her family in Queens, New York, in 1970, at the age of six. Sandra Jacqueline Denton was born in 1964 in Kingston, Jamaica. Pepa: “So having him in charge in the beginning and molding us, and shaping us and helping us to believe is what got us really going early on.Cheryl Renee James was born in 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. He believed that all things were possible and his energy was very contagious.” He wrote a lot and he just had a good ear.” Hurby understood issues when it came to females. And he was right because the legacy of Salt-N-Pepa is amazing. But he knew at the end of the day it was Salt and I who would make that dream come true. Fresh think they are?!!! But that was what started us out because after that people recognized us.” Who do these girls battling Slick Rick and Doug E. It was very ballsy for two women that nobody knew to do something like that. That was the best way for us as female rappers to get noticed, which was crazy for us to do because Doug and Slick Rick were the biggest thing ever and ‘The Show’ was the biggest song ever. And it was all about battling and who was the best. Back then, that’s how you got your foot in the door in hip-hop. The catalyst for was Roxanne Shante’s answer to UTFO’s ‘Roxanne, Roxanne.’ She really inspired us to do that song. It was later we found out that we were both huge hip-hop fans. ’ So yes, our initial attraction was laughter. She actually got up on the wall and demonstrated how the man was humping! And I was like, ‘I love this girl. And the thing that really made me fall in love with Pep was when our computers were down at one point and we were all in the break room, Pep got in front of everybody and told this story about how she saw this bum humping a pole. So did Hurby (Salt N Pepa’s longtime producer Hurby “Luv Bug” Azor) and Kid n’ Play. There was a point where we were working at Sears Roebuck and we were telephone solicitors. Laughter was contagious when we were together. It was that sense of humor that we both had. But I later found out that she was paying attention to me like, ‘Who is she?’ We just connected and started talking.” I used to watch her and ask myself, ‘Why isn’t she joining the party?’ She would just be in her little corner. But I used to see Salt in the lunchroom and she would be so quiet. I remember playing spades in the lunchroom and guess what? We are playing spades right now. Even back then, I was very outspoken and boisterous. But before we go into that it’s important to understand how Salt and I first met.” Fresh’s and Slick Rick’s ‘The Show.’ We were originally called Super Nature. Salt: “Our first record The ‘Showstoppers’ was recorded back in 1986 and was the answer record to Doug E.
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