The single earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance and made Salt-N-Pepa the first female rap act to go platinum. The result was “The Show Stoppa”, credited to Super Nature, a response to rappers Doug E.
Cheryl James (Salt) and Sandra Denton (Pepa) met at Queensborough Community College in New York City while studying nursing and became friendly as coworkers at Sears.The groundbreaking hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa set the standard for female rappers in the ’80s and enjoyed massive crossover success the following decade.
