GC18YRE Salt-N-Pepa #1: Salt (Traditional Cache) in Illinois, United States created by Blue Grass Tom

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Hidden : 1/27/2008

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A nice cache in the Illinois countryside for your hunting pleasure!

"The year was 1986 and, despite its international popularity, critics were saying that rap music was a fad that would not endure into the next decade. People within the industry, while more confident of its longevity, proclaimed that rap was a genre in which women would never excel. Now, more than ten years after their debut, Cheryl James, Sandi Denton and Dee Dee Roper—collectively known as Salt-n-Pepa—are were able to enjoy the last laugh as they rode the success of their release, Brand New.

Cheryl james, a Brooklyn native, and Sandi Denton, a transplant from Kingston, Jamaica, met while studying nursing at Queens Borough Community College in the mid eighties. Both women also worked as telephone sales representatives for Sears, alongside fellow undiscovered talents Kid 'n' Play and Martin Lawrence. But it was writer/producer Hurby Azor who would launch their career by asking them to participate in a class project. Azor, a student at the Center for Media Arts was assigned the task of producing a record…a task he would complete with aplomb. Cheryl and Sandi were recruited to perform the vocals for "The Showstopper", an Azor-penned reply to doug e. fresh's "the show". The record earned azor an "A" and attracted the attention of pop art records, who released the song in 1985.

in 1986, having changed their name from Super Nature to Salt-n-Pepa, Cheryl and Sandi signed with independent Next p
Plateau records and released hot, cool & vicious—written and produced by Hurby "the Lovebug" Azor. The album produced a string of successful singles, but it was not until d.j.s across the country started flipping over the single "Tramp"—a rewrite of the 1967 Otis Redding/Carla Thomas song—that the group went supernova. "Push It", the notorious flipside that Cheryl and Sandi have since declared was just a joke, became an overnight hit with it's catchy hook and rump-shaking rhythm. 1987 also witnessed a change in the line-up with Dee Dee Roper replacing Ltoya Hanson as the women's personal lady dj, Spinderella. because azor holds the copyrights to the names "salt", "pepa" and "spinderella", Hanson continues her career under the name "The Original". Roper, still a teenager at the time, took a tutor with her on tour and observed a curfew that prevented any post-performance rabble-rousing. while she is not featured in the song, the new Spinderella made her debut in the group's second video, "Push It". In the end, "Push It" sold over a million copies, topped the r&b and rap charts and earned the women their first grammy nomination for best rap performance."

The above is taken from the official group website at: (visit link) This set of two tribute caches honors the girls. Have fun!

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