Word: pepa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salt 'N' Pepa, as befits their name, serve things up with zest. In choosing to title their latest album Brand New, the distaff Dynamic Duo of rap are practicing their most characteristic double-play: making a straight-up bold declaration that is also coyly ironic...
...buying it. I grew up listening to hip-hop. In elementary school I tuned my radio to the techno-influenced chant Planet Rock and innocent party jams like Rapper's Delight. By high school and college, hip-hop was everything from the pop female braggadocio of Salt-n-Pepa to the black nationalism of Public Enemy. Today, in addition to music that ranges from alternative rock to techno, I listen to rough-edged rappers the Wu Tang Clan--and, yes, Biggie and Tupac as well...
...cool-lots of older viewers too. In the effort to achieve a kid-friendlier culture, do we want to end up with a sanitized one, free of the worst excesses of "death metal" but also purged of Tarantino? Or of sassy but not salacious rappers like Salt-N-Pepa? Or even, let it be said, deprived of the mixed bag of gifts and gas that is Oliver Stone...
Other artists who performed included Joan Jett, Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless of television's "Cagney and Lacey," and Salt of Salt N' Pepa...
...referenced in pop culture through songs such as Salt & Pepa's "Sexy Noises Turn Me On," and the Happy Mondays' "Bob's Yer Uncle" (voted by WFNX in 1991 as the "best song to have sex to"), talking dirty is a staple of sexual interaction. To those who practice it, 'netsex builds on this erotic principle by typing dirty. To those who have not tried it, it can seem alien, even perverse. As "Worm," a Leverett senior puts it, "Who wants to spank off at the rate of 9600 baud?" Nevertheless, it goes on all day, every day, in every...