“Shoop”—Salt-N-Pepa
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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The Importance of History in Hip Hop
Julianne Shoop: Do you hear a lot of salt and pepper or see a lot of them in the last 20, 25 years of rap and pop? Were they super influential or do they kind of stand alone because a lot of what they did wasn't really repeatable? "I like to belittle it by a vocal tone. ... Black's Magic is my favorite record there," Julianne says about Missy Elliott's 1993 hit None of Your Business. 'Shoop: I think that we can't overlook the way that feminism, as a brand, wasn't doing great with women of color at that time'
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