Platinum Productions presents Salt n Pepa’s THE LEGENDS OF HIP HOP Tour. By the late 1980s, hip-hop was on its way to becoming a male-dominated art form, which is what made the emergence of Salt n Pepa so significant. As the first all-female rap crew (even their DJs were women) of importance, the group broke down a number of doors for women in hip-hop. The duo’s hit songs include “Push It,” “Shake Your Thang.” “Shoop,” “Whatta Man” and their biggest hit to date, “Let’s Talk About Sex.” They later re-recorded the song as a safe-sex rap, “Let’s Talk About AIDS.”
Coming out of the fertile early-’80s New York rap scene, Whodini were one of the first rap groups to add a straight R&B twist to their music, thus laying the groundwork for the new jack swing movement. The group consisted of rappers Jalil Hutchins and John “Ecstasy” Fletcher, adding legendary DJ Drew “Grandmaster Dee” Carter, known for being able to scratch records with nearly every part of his body, in 1986. Whodini made its name with good-humored songs like “Magic’s Wand” (the first rap song to feature an accompanying video), “The Haunted House of Rock” (a rewrite of “Monster Mash”), and “Freaks Come Out at Night,” and their live shows were the first rap concerts to feature official dancers (U.T.F.O. members Doctor Ice and Kangol Kid).
THE LEGENDS OF HIP HOP Tour will also include: Kurtis Blow, Biz Markie & Doug E. Fresh.
Salt n Pepa’s THE LEGENDS OF HIP HOP Tour will be at the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami, Florida on Friday February 11, 2011.
