Please , please , please don ' t let it flop like Enterprise did ! Also Michelle Yeoh ! ! omg 3 <| sep |> SaltNPepa artist picimg 2 . akamaized . netiu 252 b 82 ee 9 dea 54 f 49 d 0 bf 0 b 15 a 3 bebc 1 d 9 d . png SaltNPepa is an American rnb and hiphop group , consisting of Cheryl James and Sandy Denton Salt and Pepa , respectively , and Deidre Dee Dee Roper DJ Spinderella . They debuted with The Show Stopper , a response record to Doug E . Fresh Slick Rick ' s The Show . It was an underground hit and SaltNPepa signed to Next Plateau . Their debut LP was Hot , Cool Vicious 1986 , which was produced by Salt ' s thenboyfriend , Hurby Azor , the group ' s manager , and he received songwriting credit for the album , though this was later disputed . According to AMG it also featured DJ Pamela Green , though they do not include her in their list of credits , and neither does the album sleeve . Hot , Cool Vicious received little attention until a San Francisco DJ named Cameron Paul created a remix of Push It The bside to Tramp . Mr . Paul ' s remix of Push It , rereleased as a single , quickly became a national hit and was nominated for a Grammy , pushing both the single and LP to Platinum album status . They released A Salt With a Deadly Pepa , which was only a minor hit , though it featured Shake Your Thang . Their third original LP , Blacks Magic , which received generally positive reviews and expanded SaltNPepa ' s fanbase among hip hop fans using more RB . It included Let ' s Talk About Sex , one of their biggest songs . SaltNPepa left Next Plateau and the influence of Azor released Very Necessary , a largely selfproduced album in 1993 see 1993 in music , and it performed very well on the charts , buoyed by Shoop and Whatta Man with En Vogue . In 1994 , they appeared in the motion picture Who ' s The Man ? . The less commercially successful single None of Your Business , won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 1995 . Since Very Necessary , both Salt and Pepa have focused primarily on their acting careers . They released their final album Brand New in 1997 . Despite their girl group beginnings , SaltNPepa insist that they wrote many of the lyrics on their first album , and by Blacks Magic they displayed a sex positive , and responsible , feminism , and are often seen as innovators or role models . In March 1999 , SaltNPepa embarked on their final live tour . Pepa Sandy Denton married Treach of Naughty By Nature on July 27 , 1999 . SaltNPepa ' s greatesthits album , entitled SaltNPepa The Best Of was released on January 25 , 2000 . Treach and Pepa were divorced on July 31 , 2001 . The group officially disbanded in 2002 . Upon disbanding , Salt Cheryl James claimed she had become a bornagain Christian , and would no longer be involved in hiphop . However , all that changed when Cheryl announced that she would be releasing her first solo cd Salt of the Earth which later changed to Salt Unrapped . Cheryl James and Sandy Denton appeared on VH 1 ' s Hip Hop Honors in November 2004 without Spinderella . They did not perform . In March 2005 , it was announced that Sandy Denton would join Jose Canseco , Bronson Pinchot , Omarosa ManigaultStallworth , Caprice Bourret , Janice Dickinson , and Carey Hart on the 5 th season of the VH 1 series The Surreal Life . SaltNPepa reunited on September 22 , 2005 , and gave their first performance in six years . They sang Whatta Man , along with En Vogue , as a part of VH 1 ' s Hip Hop Honors program . Read more on Last . fm . NPepa 494 , 907 listeners , 2 , 659 , 954 plays tags HipHop , rap , female vocalists , 80 s , hip hop Please downvote if incorrect ! Selfdeletes if score is 0 .