What goes finest with a ‘Flamin’ Hottie?’ Just a little Salt-N-Pepa. The rap duo talks EXCLUSIVELY with HL about why seeing Megan Thee Stallion masking their hit ‘Push It’ is a ‘excellent match.’
Those that noticed Frito-Lay’s Tremendous Bowl Business may need acknowledged Megan Thee Stallion’s voice because the crimson songbird singing a rendition of Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It,” however do they know that Megan recorded a model of the 1986 hit? That reality even caught the trailblazing rappers abruptly. “I knew there was the business, however I didn’t know she really made the tune over, so folks had been sending it to me,” Cheryl “Salt” James tells HollywoodLife throughout her and Sandra “Pepa” Denton’s EXCLUSIVE interview. “And I used to be like, ‘I do know we’re in a business, ‘Push It’ is in a Frito Lay business.’”
“They had been like, ‘no, she did a tune.’ So then I listened to the tune and it was hottie and it was scorching. It was good,” provides Salt. “Trigger we’re the unique hotties!” provides Pepa with amusing. “That’s true, really,” concurs Salt.
“We're hotties,” continues Pepa. “And the entire Frito Lay and the marketing campaign, it’s extra than simply being a spicy taste. It’s what it’s representing to the followers, to embrace your hottie-ness, to be just a little edgy, and that’s what it was [like] teaming up with Megan and us. It was an ideal match with that as effectively, to get that time throughout as a result of like I stated, we're the unique hotties,” she says with amusing.
The bond between these iconic hip-hop stars first fashioned at the 2021 Glamour occasion honoring Megan because the publication’s Lady of the 12 months. “[Megan] needed Salt and Pepa to current the award to her,” Pepa tells HollywoodLife. “Salt couldn’t go for private causes. However I ended up going to the Glamour Award and actually understanding what she was about. What she speaks for, [the] issues that she stands for, is what Salt-N-Pepa represents. We’re very about empowering your self and understanding your value and go for it.”
“And hold pushing it,” provides Salt. “And hold pushing it,” says Pepa.
“Once you’re down, even when life will get arduous as a lady you need to overcome so many adversities and us elevating kids within the enterprise, however we simply saved pushing it ahead as a result of we knew that we had one thing of a ardour and a goal, which was Hip Hop and representing rocking the payments right now too,” says Salt. Pepa identified how the duo was all the time “proving ourselves and preventing for our place” in a male-dominated hip-hop panorama, and their arduous work is paying off with this new era of feminine rappers.
“I see the expansion, which is nice, however you bought to maintain passing on the torch and we obtained to make use of our platform to maintain empowering and elevate the subsequent one up, [and] simply hold going,” says Pepa. In HollywoodLife’s EXCLUSIVE video interview, Salt-N-Pepa talk about how Nicki Minaj “actually kicked off” the latest explosion of female-driven hip-hop, whereas giving like to originators like Roxane Shante, Sparky D, MC Lyte, and extra.