How we made Salt-N-Pepa's Push It
‘An aquarium told us that when they put the song on, the sharks started mating’
Cheryl James (‘Salt’)
We weren’t the first female rappers – Angie Stone’s group, the Sequence, came before us – but we were the first to go platinum around the world. Pep and I were in college together. We were big time screw-ups. We never went to class. We’d just hang around in the lunch room playing cards, and we formed this amazing friendship.
Because we were polar opposites, we fascinated each
