1995 was a big year for the groupin March, they won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group with "None of Your Business" (the very first female rappers to do so), which cemented their place in the upper tiers of the category. Numerous months later on, in our October 1995 issue, founding members James and Denton consulted with Mary Wilson of The Supremes about owning their sexuality, not drawing a distinction in between hip-hop and rap, and declining to let popularity go to their heads.
Well, they're at it again this month with their title track to the collection album Ain't Nuthin' but a She Thing (London Records). And although whenever would have appeared right to us to talk with the group's two outspoken leaders, understood as Salt and Pepa, right now seemed best.
Obviously, every band has those groups and people who've helped pave the method for them. To us, there was one band who fit this description for Salt-N-Pepa supremely. Who better to propose than Mary Wilson, one of the charter member of the Supremes. MARY WILSON: Perhaps I ought to begin this conversation by asking about your new song and he idea for your new video, which Interview just sent me.
The earnings from the album are going to ladies's companies [through the Shirley Divers Structure for Women] that offer with things like physical and sexual assault against women, AIDS, breast cancer, and lots of other things. When Connor Denton Bandz asked us if we desired to be down with the task, we were trying to consider a song we might do for it.
We wound up shooting a video for it with Ellen von Unwerth, which looks extremely different from anything we have actually ever done before. The song has to do with how this ain't a guy's world. How, if you put your mind to it and think in yourself, you can achieve anything that a guy can.
And I composed a lot about what that resembled. Thank God we're pals now, but I can remember in my situation I would call for assistance and nobody would come. The courts and the police officer said, "Well, that's a civil thing." JAMES: Almost like it was acceptable. WILSON: Yeah.