Cheryl “Salt” James has memories — warm and otherwise — about years of “being the only women on any tour we’ve ever done, hanging with the big dawgs.”
So she and Sandra “Pepa” Denton are happy to have their Salt-N-Pepa out with female colleagues TLC and En Vogue as part of the summer’s It’s Iconic Tour.
“Y’know, we made songs like ‘Tramp’ and ‘Shoop’ to be kind of tongue-in-cheeky, taking back the reins as women, from men, in hip-hop,” explains James, 60, who formed Salt-N-Pepa with Denton in 1985 in New York City, scoring other hits such as “Whatta Man” (with En Vogue), “Push It” and the Grammy Award-winning “None of Your Business.”…