Their fifth and final album together, Brand New, was released in 1997 under Red Ant Records, after they were offered a $15 million dollar signing bonus. The single, “None Of Your Business,” won the trio their first Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo of Group, making them the first all-female rap group to win the coveted award. It became multi-platinum after selling over seven million copies worldwide and over five million in the U.S. The trio released a greatest hits album entitled, A Blitz of Salt-N-Pepa Hits: The Hits Remixed in the same year and their fourth album, Very Necessary, was released in 1993. The single, “Let’s Talk About Sex,” also achieved international success and sold over one million copies. Salt-N-Pepa’s third studio album, Blacks’ Magic, was released in 1990 by London Records. The album was certified gold after selling over 800,000 copies internationally. Their second album A Salt with a Deadly Pepa was released in 1988, which included the top 10 R&B hit song “Shake Your Thang,” a collaboration with go-go band E.U. The remix of the single “Push It” led the group to be the first female rap act to achieve gold and platinum status in the United States because the album it was on sold over one million copies worldwide. In 1987 DJ Hanson left and Diedra Roper, DJ Spinderella joined the group. The group changed their name to Salt-N-Pepa as they became the first all-female rap group to enter the music industry. The trio landed a recording contract with Next Plateau Records, and their first studio album, Hot, Cool & Vicious was released in December 1986. DJ Latoya Hanson joined and rounded out the trio, and the single was officially released as “The Show Stoppa (Is Stupid Fresh)” by Pop Art Records, an independent label.
Azor asked the duo, who went by the name Super Nature, to record a song for his class project, which resulted in the “The Showstoppa,” an answer record to “The Show” by rapper Doug E. They both began working at Sears merchandising, and met fellow co-worker Hurby “Luv Bug” Azor, who was studying record production. Queens native Sandra “Pepa” Denton and Brooklyn native Cheryl “Salt” James met while attending Queensborough Community College and became close friends.
The Hip Hop group, Salt-N-Pepa was formed in Queens, New York in 1985.
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