Salt n’ Pepa Cover Jet Magazine
80’s rap duo, Salt “Chery James” and Pepa “Sandy Denton”, are featured on the upcoming March 24th edition of Jet Magazine. Both of the ladies look really beautiful and I don’t really know why but when I first saw this pic of these two sistas I almost got emotional. Salt n’ Pepa were to my generation what I can imagine Diana Ross and The Supremes were to my mother’s generation- and so to still see them on the scene today, in some capacity, feels really good. As a GAW (Grown Ass Woman) there are few women on the music scene today I can identify with and so these sistas really remind me of a great time in music that is long gone. Sistas dominated the music scene in the late 80s and 90’s and ladies like Janet, Whitney, Stephanie Mills, Toni Braxton, En Vogue and Jade made music that was not only enjoyable, but they projected an image of Black women that most of us could identify with, or at least aspire to be.
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