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- (man): Vh1 hip hop honors
jumps off tonight

in manhattan. Rumour has it
salt-n-pepa will take the stage

for the first time in years

after a really ugly breakup.
How's that gonna go?

- ? push it ?

- how you feeling, sandy?
You nervous?

Excited? Pissed off?

- Yes.

??

- yo, there you are!
How you doin', sandy?

I'm rob from vh1.
Pleasure to meet you.

- Hi. Nice to meet you.

- pepa! Can I have
your autograph?

Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you!

- we are beyond thrilled
to have you guys here.

It's gonna be epic. You ready
to have some fun tonight?

- Yeah.
- Hey, cheryl's not with you?

- No. Why would she be?

(soul music playing over radio)
- (man): Hey.

All you've gotta do is
get through this one show.

Everything's gonna be fine.

- Me and sandy haven't
talked to each other

in over four years,
much less performed with .

But go ahead.

Tell me how it won't
be that bad.

- (emcee): ...Queen latifah!
- It wasn't until

our next honourees burst onto
the scene that female rappers

were finally able to shatter
hip hop's glass ceiling.

The duo of cheryl "salt" james
and sandy "pepa" denton

started rocking the mic in 1985

and never looked back.
They've sold

over 15 million
albums worldwide,

making them one
of the best selling

hip hop acts of all time,
male or female!

I want you all
to put your hands together

and make some noise
for my girls...

The first ladies of hip hop...

The one and only salt-n-pepa!

??

("the show" by doug e. Fresh
& the get fresh crew)

- ? everybody!
Throw one hand up in the air ?

? like this, y'all! Throw it up,
y'all! Uh! Yeah! Yeah! ?

? yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ?

- hey.
- What's up?

? excuse me, doug e. Fresh ?
- ? yes? ?

- ? have you ever seen a show
when fellow on the mic ?

? with one million rhymes
and don't come out right ?

? they bite, that's not polite ?
- the chain! I dig it.

- Hey!
- Hey.

- Hey.
- Hey. What's up?

Why you wasn't in class?
- ? cheerio, scream bravo ?

? also if you didn't know
this is called the show ?

- ooh, I like them sneakers!
- Thanks.

- Hey, yo, what's up? Who tryin'
to get a boston ran on 'em?

- Hey. Get you a partner.
We'll take your money!

- A'ight. Set it
on you real quick.

Hey light skin,

you know how to play spades?
- Yeah, I play.

- You good?
- I'm from brooklyn.

- Excuse me. I'm sandy.

- Cheryl.
- You tryin' to be my partner?

- Nah, that's ok.
- All right. Yo, kim,

come over here
so we can beat they ass.

I'm gonna let you deal
but don't cheat.

- She knows you too well.
- Yo, you deal

like my grandma. Come on.
- So...

We're looking
for a.M. Employees.

Here, just give us
your information

and if you wanna fill this out
and return it to me

tomorrow morning.
- Ok. Thanks.

- Hey! What you doin'
over there?

- Oh, I work part time for sears

on queens boulevard
and they're hiring.

- Ok. Well, I need a job.

What's up? What you gotta do?
- Talk on the phone, basically.

If someone buys
a fridge or a washing machine,

we try and sell them a warranty.

It's minimum wage
but if you hustle, you can get

about five bucks an hour.
It's pretty easy work.

Plus I get a bonus
for every application

that I hand out
that gets turned in.

- Yeah, well, let me get one!
(cheryl laughs)

yo, let me get two more.

Some bums over here.

You a bum,

and you a bum.
(chuckles)

hey. You gonna put
a good word in for me?

- Yeah, I got you.

- ? oh-oh, oh-oh ?

- where's those applications?

- Peep this.
(cheryl chuckles)

- I know this. This is
doug e. Fresh and slick rick.

- Mm-hmm. And I told you
when we saw them at the roxy,

they were gonna be big. They got
the hottest song out right now.

This...

This is our ticket out.

- Ticket out of what?
- Out of this whole

corporate worker bee mess,

and onto something that's mine.

we make an answer record
dissin' these cats.

Hey, baby.
Remember when I played you

that cut of "roxanne's revenge?"
- yeah, it was dope.

- My boy marley made that
whole thing in his apartment,

right over there
in queensbridge projects.

He found shante, dissed utfo,

now look at him. He's a dj
for mr. Magic's show,

and that record went
through the roof.

If he could do it,
we can do it.

- We? As in you and me?

Huh! No.

- Hell yeah!

Babe--
- excuse me.

- Look, I was thinking about it.
Most of these rappers out here

are just solo acts or groups.
I was thinking we could be

a boyfriend-girlfriend duo.

Like the ashford
& simpson of rap.

- Well, first of all,
I'm not no rapper.

- It doesn't matter!
You got the voice, cher.

And I could teach you
how to use it.

I can make the beats,

write the lyrics,
and you just say

exactly what I tell you to say.

Come on. We can make
this thing work.

Hey. What we got to lose?

- we gonna be late for work.

- ? have you ever been to jams
where people just stand ?

- ? they pay to come in
and they don't even dance ?

- ? that's so uncouth,
they think they cute ?

? am I lyin'? ?
- ? no, it's the truth ?

- ? right now, gonna show you
how it's supposed to be ?

uh...

(hurby sighs)
what's the matter?

Did I do it wrong?
- Oh, no, baby.

It's definitely not you.
It's me.

My voice don't
sound right at all.

- Yeah, you sound wack.
- Don't burn my work!

- I'm agreeing with you!
(hurby sighs)

- we need to add another woman.
- A what, I'm sorry?

- A female emcee!
Another female emcee.

Two chicks dissin'
doug e. Fresh?

What?! People'll go crazy!

They'll be like, who the hell
do these chicks think they are?

- And you're sure about this?

- Hey... There's only one way

to find out.

Come on!

- ? here we go! ?

- and this is our call centre.

And one final piece of advice:

When you're making your calls,

always smile
because it transmits

through your voice, you know?
And your prospects,

they can hear that.
That's cheryl.

She's one of our top employees.
You follow her lead,

you're gonna do just fine.
This is you, here.

That's right, mr. Grant.
Sears will replace and repair

any covered appliances
for no extra cost.

You changed your hair.

I figured you would,
uh, do something

a little more low key.
- Well, that ain't me.

And it's a phone job.
They don't even see my hair.

I thought you was
on a call anyway.

- I probably talk to about three
actual people per shift.

And at the times helen walks by,
I just make up a name

and pretend that I'm on a call.
- That's smart.

So tell me about the guys.

Who's single? Who ain't?

- Ok. Um... I'll introduce you
through conference.

Ok. So those are
the two chris's.

The light-skinned one,
that's kid.

And the brown-skinned one
is play.

So play is a dog
when it comes to women,

but he's still really cool.
And kid is

just a big sweetheart.
They both wanna be rappers.

(phone ringing)
hello, sears.

- What's up, cheryl?

Girl, you get
finer by the day.

Who do we have here?
- Sandy denton,

meet martin lawrence. Martin,

meet sandy.
- Nice to meet you.

- Welcome to sears, girl.
Pleasure's all mine.

- Girl, he think he gonna be
the next richard pryor.

- Hold up. Who is chocolate

with the dimples
and the thriller jacket?

- He's off-limits.
That's my love bug, hurby.

- Ok.
- He's studying
to be a music producer.

- That's smart.
Keep him close. Work together.

Stay together. Play together.
That's smart.

- It's not even like that.
I've just always been to myself.

- Oh, well I ain't to myself!

- I noticed that.

- hello, sears.
- Yo, whatever she told you

about me, don't believe it.
- She said you is

a ladies man and a nice emcee.
(kid laughs)

- I mean, she ain't never lied.
- Well, bust somethin' then.

- A'ight, give me a beat.
(beatboxing)

- yes, mr. Wagner...

Full warranty. Yes.

I signed you up.
Girl, it's so easy.

what exactly is this?

Is this like,
a project for school?

- To be honest,
I don't even really know.

He just asked me do I know any
girls that rap and I remembered

you did that beatbox,
so I just thought...

- Yeah, that's cool.
I mean, but don't get me wrong,

I'm not no rapper though.

But... The hell,
I could do it.

Oh.
- Yo. Tuck your chain, yo.

Anyway, what about going
to see them dudes strip?

Yeah!
- Oh, girl, hell no!

I already told you, I'm not down
for that nonsense. No.

- Oh, my god, come on!
It's gonna be fun!

My sister went last week.
She was like, "yo,

I could see everything!"
and when she said everything,

she's talkin' about...

Everything!
- Look, no!

I am a christian.
I was raised in the church.

I'm not tryin' to go
to hell messin' with

your heathen ass.
- You not! Just relax!

Be loose! Have fun!

(upbeat music)
- ooh...

Ha ha!
(cheering)

- girl, I cannot believe I let
you talk me into coming here!

- Yes, girl! And that's not even
the best one yet. He comin' up.

- (man): Get your dollars up!
All the way from africa,

the one and only elephant man!

- Ooh, we about
to see everything!

- no!
- Would you stop--ooh!

- He's coming for you.
- Ooh, girl, let it happen!

This skirt is short,
and this man messin' around

to get me pregnant. No, no, no.

No...

Oh, my god! Cheryl!

Everyone can see my booty!
Oh, my god!

- Get it, sandy!

look out!

do your thing, girl!

He gon' get you pregnant, girl!

- girl, I'm telling you,
crazy stuff like that

always happen to me.
- I know why:

'cause your ass is
straight buck wild.

And you wanna be a psychiatrist?

- You're damn right!
Believe it or not,

I'm actually
very good at solving

other people's problems.

And I can see into the future.
I've been able to do that

since I was young.
- You mean like psychic?

- Exactly. I just don't know
how to solve my own problems.

- Heh! I hear that.
I'm the same way.

- The door open?
- But I ain't trying
to be a psychiatrist.

So I see the hole in your floor
has gotten bigger.

- Girl, so what? That ain't
nothin' but a reverse skylight.

- So you're not
gonna address it?

- No, I'm not!
That's character. I like it.

- ? get big, come on ?

- so what you tryin' to do?

- Truthfully,
I don't have no idea.

I mean, the only reason
why I enrolled in college

was to make my parents happy.

Most days, I don't
even go to class.

- See, that would never fly
in my family.

We jamaican. I got one sister

that's a lawyer. I got another
sister that's a geologist.

If you a denton,
you gotta make it happen.

Yo, when I was 17,
my dad passed away.

- Oh, really?
Girl, I'm really sorry.

- I was messed up for a while.

I started cuttin' myself
with a razor blade. It was bad.

When he was alive,
my grades wasn't...

Up to his expectations,
you know what I'm sayin'?

I disappointed him.

And that's why I made a promise
to myself that no matter what,

I'd make something
out of myself.

Anyway, hurby know
where you went tonight?

- Girl, no! And don't you
tell him either!

- I'm not! So he must be like,

the jealous type?
(both laughing)

so what you think? Y'all gonna
get married, have kids?

- I don't know! I mean...

I'd be lying if I said I ain't
thought about it once

or twice.
- Mm-hmm.

- You know, one thing
I really love about him is

he believes
that he could do anything.

And he makes me believe
that I can too.

- I mean, it don't hurt
that he's cute.

He corny...
- (both): ...But he cute!

- Yeah, he is.
(both laughing)

oh, I know
they ain't tryin' to race.

- Sandy, no. Sandy, no.

- This car go fast. Wait.
- No...

- Oh, you embarrassed now?

( )
girl, this car go fast!

woo!

I told you I could drive! Woo!
- (cheryl laughing): Sandy...

- (hurby): Hold onto those
haitian good luck coins

'cause we gonna need 'em.

- Yo, she comin'.
She live all the way

in south jamaica so it take her
a minute to get here.

- Time is money, cher.
I rented all this equipment.

If I don't get it back by 9
a.M., they charging my double.

- I put my money up too,
not just you.

We in this together,
so relax, love bug.

- I know. I know that.

- Mm-hmm.

- (woman): Hurby!
- Oui, maman?

- go.

- Hey.

- Yo, sorry I'm late.
- All good.

- You speak creole?
- Yeah, I'm haitian.

- Jamaican.
- That's what's up. Island vibe.

- You ain't doin' no voodoo
or nothin' down here though?

- No. I only cast
my spells on the tracks.
Yo, ladies, let's get started.

- You got the lyrics I gave you?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I got everything memorized
on that page, everything.

Yo, you sure you want me to say
everything on this page?

- Yeah, why?
- 'cause we dissin'

doug e. Fresh and slick rick,

and me and cher ain't
no rappers. They gon' be like,

who is these girls dissin' us?
- That's the exact point!

A diss track is gonna
get us recognized.

Hip hop is all about attitude,
all right? We gotta go in there,

let 'em know we here
and we ain't scared.

All right? They come in with
the show? We come with

the showstopper.
All right, look.

You know marley marl
from mr. Magic's rap attack?

- Yeah, who don't know him?
- That's my man.

- That's true.
He do know him for real.

- He's so excited
about this song.

- I know. But if it
gets me out of queens,

girl, I'm gonna be
serious about it too.

- Enough talking, ladies.
Let's get started.

- uh-huh.
- ? yo, bust it sandy d ?

- ? what's up ?
- ? have you ever been to jams ?

? where people just stand
- people come in ?

? and they don't even dance ?
- whoa, whoa, whoa!

(music stops)
what the hell was that, sandra?

You were way off beat! Something
wrong with your headphones?

- Nah, they good!
I can hear. I can hear it.

- You jamaican, right?
- Yeah!

- That rhythm should've
flowed through you!

- I sounded like
I was on the beat.
- No, you wasn't.

It sounds wack.

Yo, I wrote it a certain way
with a certain cadence

so you could ride that beat.
All right? I need you to say it

exactly the way I wrote it.
Can you do that?

- A'ight.
- Let's run it again.

(click)
(hip hop track plays)

you good. We good.

- ? yo, bust it, sandy d ?
- ? yo, what's up? ?

- ? have you ever been to jams
where people just stand ?

- ? they pay to come in
and they don't even dance ?

- ? they're so uncouth,
they think they cute ?

? am I lyin'? ?

- whoa, whoa, whoa!
Earth to sandra!

What are you doin'?
- I, uh, I was tryin'

to read ahead.
I just got... My fault.

- Here, let me explain
something to you.

Every time I stop the tape,
that's wasted tape.

That's wasted time.
That's wasted money.

You understand?
Don't look ahead.

Just say the words that I wrote.
And can you please,

please stay on beat?

I mean, cheryl can do it.
Why can't you?

- I ain't cheryl.

And I already told you
that I wasn't no rapper.

We ain't even getting
paid to do this, yo.

yo, a negro take
one little music class

and he think he barry gordy.
- Excuse me, what was that?

- What?

- Hey, guys, can we
just chill out for a second?

We got a lot of work
ahead of us.

- Yeah, you better
talk to your man.

- Ugh. Hold on.

Can you please be
a little patient with her?

- I don't know
if this gonna work out.

- This is new to all of us.

- Ahem!

- See what I'm saying?

- I'm so damn sick
of not having money,

I don't even know what to do!

'cause see,
when a man got money,

he can do things
that a broke man can't do.

)
for example,

when a man got money, he could
tell his lady something like...

Shut the hell up!
(laughing)

and she'll shut up, won't she?
So, what do y'all think?

Is it good?
- Martin, you hilarious! Ha ha!

What you think? He funny, right?
- I'd keep working on it.

- Helen, helen, helen.
- 5-0, yo!

- so, is it the refrigerator
or the stove?

Just... You can let me know
if you're interested or not.

- Ladies, would you
come with me, please?

I'd like to see you
in my office.

- Mm.

- Ooh! Y'all in trouble!
- Shut up.

- (man): Damn!

- I've been going over
your sales records,

and I have to say you're both

doing exceptional work.

- Um... Thanks.
- You're welcome.

- And since we like
to reward hard workers,

I'm giving you each a raise.
Two dollars an hour.

How does that sound?
- Hold up. Wait. So we gettin'

a raise?
- Yeah.

Congratulations.
You've earned it.

- (sandy): We ain't fired!
- (cheryl): We got a raise!

- Hell, no!
- Look at this!

- Can I get a loan?
- (sandy): No!

- You can afford it!
- Man, they can afford it.

- Ha!

- (sandy): I thought you said
hurby knew people.

- He do! He sent "showstopper"
to all kinds of record people.

It takes time.
- All right.

Girl, let's go out tonight.
- That'd be fresh,

but... I can't hang out tonight,
I'm supposed to be at--

- oh, let me guess,
'cause it's always hurby.

Hurby this, hurby that. Pfft.

- That's not true.

Ok. Well, so what if it is?

But what do you want from me?
That's my man.

- I ain't say nothin'.

Hold up. Hold up.
("showstopper" plays)

- that's our song!

- (both): That's us!
(both laughing)

- yo! Our song is on the radio!
Turn to mr. Magic right now!

Ah!

- (cheryl): Calm down!

- ? sandy, we'll be breakin'
hearts you know ?

? but that's true,
it's all about money though ?

- just get back
in the car, please?

People are staring at us!
- Our song is on the radio!

Come on, girl!
How many times does your song

go on the radio?
- (man): Seriously?

That's you?

- (both singing along):
? set it off, do it ?

? set it off, do it ?

? set it off ?
- (man): Keep it down!

- ? do it ?
- (man): Keep it down, you...

Turn that off!
Turn that music down!

- (sandy): Our song is
on the radio!

Y live. You're on
the air. What do you wanna hear?

- Play that "showstopper"
song again! That's my cut!

- (man): Miller's private line,
you're on the air.

- Yo, what's that song
by them salt-n-pepa girls?

I wanna hear that!
- (hurby): Listen, we gonna play

the streets, the clubs,

see if we got what it takes.

So hurry up.
- Hey, yo, I don't understand

why we performing
at a high school.

Ain't gettin' paid.
I don't understand.

- Sandra, I don't
have time to explain

every little thing to you.
Just trust me.

- You been memorizing
the lyrics I wrote?

- Yeah.
- Good.

Make sure you're on beat.
- But... Hurby,

do we gotta perform
at doug e. Fresh's

old high school?
- Yup. Goin' into the belly

of the beast,
see if we got what it takes.

- But we ain't even
ready like that yet.

- Yo, sandra, chill.
- You know, I don't know

if dissin' dougie e.
Is a good idea.

- Oh, shoot!
- You sure you're all

up for this? It's gettin'
rowdy up in there, man.
- We were born ready!

Music's all cued up.
- All right, all right.

Check this out.
The mic sounds nice

but the pa system's
all jacked up.

Sorry, man.
There's no music today.

- It's cool! It's cool!
It's cool! Rap is

all about that beat.

Come on. Let's go. Yo, mac.

Can you do your thing?
- Yeah, I got you. I got you.

Let's go, man. Let's go.
- My man.

- So what you call
yourselves anyway?

- Salt-n-pepa.
- Salt-n-pepa?

- Yeah, that's what they keep
requestin' on the radio,

'cause of that line in the song.

You're salt, you're pepa.
- (crowd): Doug e.! Doug e.!

- Yo, what's up? What's up?
What's up?

I got a treat for y'all today.

I got a treat for y'all today!

- We don't wanna hear them!
- All right, hold on!

(indistinct chatter)
- go back to queens!

- Why don't y'all chill? Chill!
(booing)

oh, y'all want doug?
Y'all want doug? Why y'all here?

- yo! They're not from the area,

from the area, but y'all need

to give these ladies a chance
and let them do their thing.

Let 'em perform!
- Hey, big man, take
those girls and step!

- Anybody acting up is gonna get
thrown out. That's what's up.

That's what's up!
- What's that?

- Don't worry about it.
- If you're ready to rock,

let me hear you say hooo!
- Go get 'em. Come on.

- (all): Hooo!
- Somebody scream!

- ? we came here from queens,
all the way to uptown ?

? just to spread the word
about this doug e. Fresh clown ?

? not only him,
but ricky d too ?

? and a big f u to the
get fresh crew! ?
- (audience): Ooh!

- ? now I go by the name of mc
cher, short, light, and fine ?

? with much savior faire
- what's up everybody,
I'm sandy d ?

? caramel, sexy
in the place to be ?
- ? now sandy, why do guys ?

- ? always play dumb,
like some cheap cologne
means they gonna get some? ?

- ? if you do give 'em some,
they don't even last long,
it's like-- ?

- ? six minutes,
six minutes, six minutes ?
- ? doug e. Fresh, you gone! ?

- oh!
- ? gone! Gone! ?

? now doug e. You can beatbox,
but that ain't no surprise ?

? your lips are so damn big you
must've got 'em super-sized ?

? now ricky he ain't picky,
he give it up for days ?

- ? and word on the street is
that he goes both ways ?

? I set it off, do it ?

? I set it off, do it ?

? I set it off, do it ?
? I set it off ?

? do it ?
(laughing)

- that was nice, girls.
Give me that little pose

one more time, please?
- That was really good.

- Excellent.
- You two are ready

for broadway.
- Good. What was that for again?

Some talent show or something?
- No!

Daddy, we're performing
at a night club!

- Not just any night club.
Hurby booked us at the inferno.

- Have you met
any other rappers yet?

Can you introduce me to run-dmc?

- Kim, our song just came out.

We don't know nobody
and don't nobody know us.

- Everybody at my school
knows who y'all are.

Now that you're famous,
it's like I'm famous too.

- hey, hey, hey!

Mr. And mrs. James!
- What do you got there, hurby?

- Check this out. I found
new stage outfits for the show.

- You want us to wear this?
- Yeah!

- Hurby, what kind of rappers
dress like this?

- Yo, we switchin' it up!
- That's ugly.

- No, it's not, sandra.
Check out this material.

This is like from overseas,
you know what I mean?

- (softly): That's your boy.
- Sandy, I can't

do this. I'm not ready.
I think I need to throw up.

- Girl, I know. I gotta pee.
Where is the bathroom back here?

Where--I gotta use
the bathroom real quick!

- Ain't no ladies room
back here, y'all.

Y'all need to get it together!
- ...You got money, you can tell

your lady something like,
shut the hell up!

- He's killin' it out there!
- We're in it together, right?

- I don't know.

- Just have fun, just have fun.
I got your back.

- A'ight, that's my time, y'all.
I'm martin lawrence.

Y'all have a good night.

damn, that felt good! Thank you.

I won't forget this.
- Remember like we said,

whoever make it first help out
the other one, right?

- Oh, you know it.
- All right, now.

- Good job, bro. All right.
Let's get you in position.
Come on. It's go time.

Show time. Let's go.
- (emcee): Next up, two girls
from brooklyn and queens making

a big splash
on the hip hop scene.

Let's welcome salt-n-pepa!

- Once again,
my friends and countrymen,

lend us your ears and eyes,

the showstopper is stupid fresh!

When will you be satisfied?

these girls gonna rap.
No, no, no!

Just stick to dancing, women!

- ? yo, bust it, sandy d
- yo, what's up? ?

- ? have you ever been to jams
where people just stand ?

? and they pay to come in
and they don't even dance ?

- ? they're souped
- they're so uncouth ?

- ? they think they cute
- am I lyin'? ?

- ? no, it's the truth
- right now, gonna show you ?

? how it's supposed to be
- 'cause we ?

? the salt-and-pepa mcs
will chance the circumstance ?

? rock your pants ?
- ? my fans ?

- ? this is called the jam ?
(cheering)

- (woman): That's what
I'm talkin' about!

- ? sandy, sandy
- what? What? ?

- ? sandy, we'll be breaking
hearts you know ?

- ? that's true,
it's all about money though ?

- ? but douglas and richard
won't like it-- ?

- ? so?
- Come on, then ?

? let's stop the show
- uh-ooh-uh-ooh-uh-uh-no ?

? uh-ooh-uh-uh-no ?

- ? yo, this beat is
stupid fresh! ?

- ? ah, yeah, you know it,
cold dissed doug fresh ?

- ? top choice ?
- ? of course, the rest is ?

- ? soft! Set it, set,
set it, set, set ?

? set it off, do it ?

? set it off, do it
set it off ?

? do it, set it off ?

? do it! ?

- ladies! We are officially
a hit! We're booked

for two more shows this weekend,

$200 a pop.
- What?

- Yeah! And that ain't all.

I just met a guy who works
for the owner of disco fever,

and he wants us next weekend!

- Hold up, the fever?
You serious?

- As a heart attack!
- The fever big!

- I mean, that club is like
the apollo for hip hop!

I mean, grandmaster flash,
run-dmc, kurtis blow...

Now salt-n-pepa.

- Oh, and we just got invited

to the party for krush groove
this Thursday.

- We goin'. We gotta go!

- Yeah!
- Yo, I can't believe it!

This is happenin'
like you actually said.

- And it's only getting
better, ladies. It's
only getting better.

- Yo, one thing.
No more paisleys

and heels, yo. You know
I almost busted my ass

up on that stage.
- What, you don't like the suit?

Hey, don't worry about it.
I'll take you guys shopping.

Whatever you want,
it's cool with me.

- Sneakers and a leather--
- hurby! You gonna introduce me

to these lovely ladies?

You know what? I'm sweet tooth.
Got a taste for talent.

Y'all headed straight
to the top. Get in close.

I wanna take a picture before
you forget the little people.

Come on, close, man!
She gon' be a problem.

Ol' salty right here.

Say cheddar for me.

Cheddar!

I'll make sure you get a copy.

- (man): Yo, yo, yo!
It's run dmc!

- (man): Over here! Over here!

- (rasping): Cheryl, you could
not pay me to leave

this party tonight.
- Bro, do you hear your voice?

You need to be home in bed
or we're never gonna be ready

for these shows.
- Uh-uh. Every rapper I ever

wanted to meet is
in here tonight.

Especially that one.
- He was

barely in the movie.
How old is he, like 17?

- Bro, do not mess this up
for me tonight!

I asked around,
and I know his name.

It's ll cool j.

And I'm takin' his young ass
home with me tonight.

- All right, well, go talk
to him. See if he like girls

that sound like that.
- What I wanna do is just put

my vibe out there,
and he gonna come over to me.

- All right.
Let's see the vibe, then.

Work it, sandy!

Boom! Yeah.

I'm gonna need some more
champagne and I'm gonna go find

my man. Good luck with the vibe.
- You don't like the vibe

that I'm throwin' out?
- Dj, dj!

- Uh-huh, uh-huh!
- What's up? Yo, play
that new track for me.

- I got you. I got you, man.
- Yeah! Sick. That's sick.

- hey, mr. Love bug!

- You ok, sweetheart?

- Yeah, I'm fine. I just...
Got a little cold.

- Stay away from me then.

(man chuckles)
how you doin', love? I'm markie.

- I know who you are.
I love the fat boys.

I'm sandy.
- So what'd you
think of the movie?

- I thought you did good.

How was it seeing yourself
on the big screen?

- Pretty crazy to be honest.
Had to pinch myself a few times.

I sure never thought rappin'
would get me here. Keep doin'

what you're doin'.
You'll get there too one day.

- How you know who I am?
- I asked around. And...

Your name is on the back of
your jacket. It's kind of hard

to miss. I want
you to get better

'cause when you do,
I wanna take you out.

- That's sweet.
- So is that a yes?

- why your girl always movin'
around like a groupie?

Lookin' cheap.
- Hurby! That's markie

of the fat boys.
Yo, she's just talkin'.

Ok? Relax.

Let's enjoy this, please?
- All right. All right.

(fast-paced hip hop music)
(elevator bell dings)

ok.

I asked all around.
No one's interested in signin'

a girls' rap group.
This guy might be our shot.

hurby azor, here to meet
eddie o'loughlin.

Thanks for meeting with us,
mr. O'loughlin.

- Just call me eddie o.
So your song's

gettin' a little bit of play.
Since bls broke it...

It's gettin' added.
Philly, d.C.,

cleveland. You know,
I've been thinking

of maybe taking a chance
on a female rap act but...

I don't know.
- Well, if you liked

"showstopper," I can deliver
a full album that's even hotter.

Speaking of d.C.,
they got a style of music

down there called go-go that I
think would sound so funky

under a rap song. I got
100 ideas. That's just one.

- That's great to hear but,
you know, as you can see,

we're a small label and I don't
really have a big budget.

- Fine with me.
I work fast and cheap.

- Ahem.

- I couldn't do this without
cheryl. She's my inspiration.

(distant phone ringing)
(distant honking)

- tell you what. I'll give you

five grand for another single.
If it comes out well,

I'll give you nine grand more

for a full lp.

Deal?

- Ho ho ho!
(laughing)

donations for
the children's hospital!

- Ah! $14 000!

Are you kiddin' me? I'm gonna
make five albums with that!

- I am buggin'!
This don't even seem real!

I need to find a pay phone
and call sandy right now!

- Whoa! Whoa! Slow down, baby.
Slow down. Slow down. Slow down.

- What?
- There's something
we need to talk about.

There's a reason
why I didn't invite her

to this meeting.
- Ok.

- The two of us...

We're the group.

We're the creative team.

The way I look at it,
sandra's just a supporting role

in all this.
- Supporting how? What does

that even mean?
- What I'm saying. I mean,

I'm doin' all the writing
and the producing.

You do most of the rappin'.

She's just there
to complete the picture.

- I can't believe
you're saying this!

Sandy's my girl.
I always figured we would

split it three ways.
- What are you saying, cher?

Why would we do that?

It was my vision
that got us here.

You know what I'm saying?
I'm creating

most of the record.
I'm doin' all of the work.

Why... Why wouldn't I get
a bigger share?

- I mean yeah, I get it.
That makes sense.

- Yeah! And since you're doing
most of the rapping...

Why should she get paid
as much as you do?

cher, baby...

I'm not telling you
what to do with your money.

And I know this is
your girl and all.

If you wanna split it
down the middle with her,

that's on you.

- It just wouldn't even feel
right taking more than her.

Your voice didn't work
with mine, remember?

She make this group work.

- Like I said,
it's on you, baby.

- What are you doin'?

- What's it look like I'm doin'?

I'm hailin' a cab!

We make too much money
to ride the subway now!

(sandy laughs)
let's go!

- yeah.
- (markie): [and?]

- I mean, I don't know.
That's a big step.

I only been talking to you
for like a month.

(doorbell rings)
baby, hold on one second, ok?

- Girl, I got some news!
- I'm on the phone! What's up?!

- Hang up! This is important!
- Ah! Hey, baby. Yes.

I'm gonna call you
back tonight. Ok? Yeah.

All right. Bye.

- Sandy, you not gonna believe
what's going on, girl!

- anyway, she on my nerves.
- Well, all that's

about to change.
We got a record deal!

- You lyin'.
- I'm serious.

- You serious?

So what do we do next?!

What we gotta sign? How
much money we gettin'?
Are we gonna move?!

- Sandy, listen!
I don't know all that yet.

But what I do know is, yo,
we gotta take this seriously

and give it 100 percent.
Like, this is our life now.

- Yeah. Yeah.
- I'm droppin' out of school.

- Word?
- Yeah, and you should too.

- Nah. The one thing
I promised my dad is that I was

going to get my education
and I gotta get it, yo.

I can't quit school...

...But I can take
a semester off.

But I can't drop out!
But we definitely

quittin' sears!
- Yeah!

- What's everybody
shoutin' about? You know

I'm trying to watch me stories.
- Cheryl just told me

we're gettin' a record deal.
(laughing)

- I'm happy for you.

Come love me up.

Oh, I hope you know
what you're doing.

- Yeah, mommy.
It's fine! It's not like

I'm doin' it by myself.
I got her back. She got mine.

We'll be fine.

- Ok...

- ? record deal
- record deal ?

? in the bag ?
- congratulations!

- (sandy): Yeah, that's my cue!
- (cheryl): Here we are!

- my man. We're salt-n-pepa.
We go on at 11.

Can you let 'em know we here?
- Who do I look like,

boo boo the fool?
This ain't salt-n-pepa.

Salt-n-pepa are already here.
They got here an hour ago.

- The hell you talkin' about,
man? This is the group!

Yo, you must be confused.
Talk to your people.

- Did I stutter, my man?
I said the group's already here.

So you, laverne
and shirley here can go

kick rocks.
- No. Look, negro.

We are salt-n-pepa.
So what you talkin' 'bout

we already here
when we just got here?

- (echoing): I'll make sure
you get a copy.

- (man): All right, fellas.

- What's goin' on?

- Yo, it's sweet tooth
and lamont.

It's these two dudes
I talked to about comin' on

as managers, but they asked
for too much money

so I told 'em to step.
- What?!

- I think they brought in fake
salt-n-pepas to steal our gig!

- What? Fake salt-n-pepa?

- Yo, I'm gonna handle this,
all right? I'll be back.

- Where you goin'?!
- Stay here! I'll be back!

- Yo, how we goin'
to get paid tonight?

(sandy sighs)
I'm gonna call my sisters.

I'm not havin' them
come down here.

- ? bust it, sandy d
- yo, what's up? ?

- ? have you ever been to jams
where people just stand ?

? they pay to come in,
but they don't even dance ?

- ? they're souped
- they're so uncouth ?
- hey, smile! Show some teeth!

- ? no, it's the truth!
- Right now, gonna show you ?

? how it's supposed to be
'cause we ?

? the salt-n-pepa emcees will
chance the circumstance ?

? rocks your pants, my fans ?

? this is called the jam ?

- yo! Cut the music!
Cut the music! Yo!

You've all been cheated
and lied to! This is not

the real salt-n-pepa!
They're just some fake rappers

perpetrating his lie!
(microphone screeches)

(booing)
- go! Let's go! Let's go! Move!

- (hurby): Hey! Yo!
Watch it, man!

- (woman): Excuse you! Hey!
- (man): Hey! Hey, stop! Hey!

Stop!

- Ah!
- Hey!

- damn!
- Come on, let's get him!

- Oh! Hey, brother...
(hurby grunts)

- haitian hurby!

I may not be west indian,
but I'm indian, brother!

See, me and my peoples?

We from the slap a ho tribe.
- (man): Damn right.

- Slap this ho!
(hurby grunts)

thought you was trying
to hex me with some voodoo!

(coughing)
go on, lick him up again.

(thudding)
(hurby grunting and coughing)

- (man): You like that?
- Woo!

How that taste, hurby? Whoa!

- Yo! Get the hell up
off my man!

- You better back up 'cause I
been waiting to shake your salt.

- Yeah, right.
I'm from brooklyn.
I'll beat both your asses.

- Hey! Muzzle this mutt.
- Ah!

(high-pitched tone ringing)
- you asked for this, hurby!

- listen, what happened was
completely foul.

I shouldn't have been dealing
with those ghetto hustlers.

I apologize.
- Yeah, that's what happens

when you deal with pimps.
They gon' treat you like a ho.

- Yo, we been
too focused on the show.

We need to be
about this business.

That's why I brought in
my man j.P.

He's gonna be handlin'
all of the logistics,

the promotion,
bookin' the shows,

so forth and so on.
Tell 'em like you told me, j.

- One of the reasons why those
dudes were able to pull off

that scam is because there's
no publicity photos of you two.

See, fans, they know about
the songs, but they don't know

what you look like.
That changes starting now.

- Yeah, and I also
trademarked our names,

so anybody thinking
they gonna get over on us,

we takin' their ass to court
and we suin'.

You have a question, sandra?
- Yes, I do.

Why were you dealin'
with them thugs anyway?

- Look, I apologized.
I ain't mike tyson.

- I know 'cause you was
runnin' like carl lewis

I heard.
- You heard?

Whatever. We're only
workin' with people

we know, keepin' it in house.
That's why I brought in

my brother, steve.
He's my right hand.

It's only right
he handle the choreography.

- I got y'all. I'm gonna have
y'all lookin' fresh.

- Quick question.
Latonya, is it?

- Latoya.
- Ok. That's cute. Uh, you do

business with j.P. As well?
- No.

I dj.
- Yeah, I was gettin' to that.

I'm bringin' latoya
into the group.

- Meet your new dj, spinderella.

(door shuts)
- yo. It's so hot.

Gordon, you got anything
to drink? I'm dyin' in here!

- Yeah, yeah, I think I got a
soda in the fridge or something.

- No! No soda. No soda.
Have some water.

- I don't want no water!
(synth track plays)

- that's you?
- You already know how I do.

- sandra, we're here to work.
I need your vocals loose.

- I can't get a sip?
- No, you can't!

- But I thought you said
the album was basically done.

- It is, cher. It is.
All we need is a b-side

for tramp, all right?
Gordy won't leave brooklyn

and I need his keyboard sound,
so... We here.

All right? Any other questions?

Yo, gordy, play that synth sound
for me again. Come on.

- Wait, you actually liked that?
I was just messing around, man.

That's supposed to be a joke--
- come on, man. Just play it so

we can finish and
get out of here.
- Ok, damn.

- mm!

Mm!
- Mm-hmm.

- Jump on it.

Say that for me.

- Oh, baby--
- ooh, baby, baby!

- Ooh, ba--oh!
- Ooh, baby, baby!

Ooh, baby, baby...
It's not funny, man!

Come on, get on it!

- This is wack! I mean...
- Stop playing, come on.

Get on this, baby.
- Hurby, can we just take

a break, clear our minds
for a second?

- No! I need y'all
to get in the booth,

put these vocals down. Come on.

Here we go. Let's go.
- Yo, that's your boyfriend.

- Yo, fresh! Give me that!
- A'ight.

- He don't even know.
(laughing)

thank you.

All right.

Sandy, let's do this.

Two, three...
? salt-n-pepa's here ?

- ? and we're in effect ?

? want you to push it back ?

? coolin' by day,
then at night ?

? workin' up a sweat ?

- hey! Yo, my guy!
- Slide.

Slide... And back.
(record scratches)

- ah!
- I'm sorry.

- It's all good. It's all good.
We done for the day.

I know you guys are tired.
All right? Cher! Cher!

Leave those chips alone.
They're startin' to show on you.

- And your crazy is startin'
to show on you,

hurby the love bug.
And don't worry about what

I'm eatin'. I thought you said
that you liked me curvy.

- I do! But america likes thin.
You know that. So that's what

we gotta give them. And besides,
baby, you short. You can't

carry all that extra weight
like sandra.

- Girl, come on. Let's go. Let's
go before he change his mind

'cause I gotta get to my hair
appointment anyway.

- You notice how he don't
ever criticize miss thing?

She can't mix, she can't
scratch, so why do we need her?

Girl, I forgot my jacket.
- Hit me later.

I gotta get my hair done.
- All right.

- there you go. You got it now.

Just like that, yeah. Push.

- jean, come on! It's tingling.
- You're fine, sandy.

It's supposed
to feel a little hot.

- It's not supposed to feel
this hot. I knew I should've

went to my own hairdresser!
(breathes heavily)

- there's nothing she can do
that I can't!

Ok? So stop it.
- Ooh, jean, just--no!

You just wash it out!
- But the book says that--

- I don't give a damn
what the book say!

Wash it out!
- Ok, ok!

- Turn the water on!
- But it's not gonna look right!

- I don't care! Hoo!

Hoo! Oh!

Turn it on, jean! Turn it on!

Jean, put the water in it!

- Uh-oh...
- Uh-oh?

What you mean, uh-oh?!
- Nothin'! It's just...

I think I made a little mistake.

- Jean! Jean!

- ooh, yeah, that's
burnt all right.
- Ow! Ow!

- It's not funny, cheryl! What
the hell I'm supposed to do?

We got a photo shoot on Friday
and I'm gonna be over there

lookin' like a idiot!
- I mean, we could always

wear hats?
- I ain't wearin' no damn hat!

I don't even know if my hair
can grow back right here!

- Come on, it's not that bad--
- no! What, I'm gonna be walkin'

around lookin' like mr. T
for the rest of my life?

- Ooh! I got it. Ok. So this is
what we do. First, you dye it.

Do it like
a real bright honey blonde,

and then we'll fade it
and shape it up. Jean, you got

some clippers? And you
know what? We'll even cut

some lines in it on the side
like the guys do in brooklyn.

Go real punk rock glam.

You know, believe it or not,

I think it could
be actually dope.

- Girl, I'm so desperate,
I'll try anything right now.

- Tell you what.
I'll cut your hair--

- no!
- You'll cut mine.

We'll have the same style.
- You'd do that for me?

- Yeah. We in this
together, right?

- Yeah.

- I'll be on this side.
This side shaved.

So we workin' it. We workin' it.
Work the camera.

- Jean, why is you workin'--
get out of here!

She's on my nerves!
- Ok. Focus.

- Just like that. Yeah. Yeah.
Get a little closer together.

Nice. Everybody got their
hair done! They lookin' good!

Come on. Let's go. Yeah. Yeah,
just like that. Spin, get in!

Hey, yo, get in there.
Nice! Yeah! Just like that.

- (photographer): Yeah!
Keep smilin'! More laughter!

- (hurby): Yeah! Just like that!
We stars in this joint!

- ? come on! ?
- yo, hurby, she already late.

How much longer we gonna wait?

- Yeah, I know.
Let's give her another 10.

If she's not here, we move on.

- Once again,
miss thing is late.

Yo, that's mad disrespectful.
- I'm aware of that, cheryl.

- Are you?
'cause when pepa's late,

you never let her
hear the end of it.

- Never.
- Why is there one set of rules

for this one and another for us?
- I mean, what you want me

to do? You want
me to fire the girl?
- I ain't say all that.

- But you know what? You right.
You're right. She's slackin'.

It's mad disrespectful,
unprofessional.

I'm gonna give her a call.
- Call her up.

- yeah. Where you at?

You're an hour late.

Well, we don't work like that.

Well, stay where you are.

We don't need you anymore.
- Ooh!

Damn, you cut her
just like that?

- That's it. We're movin' on.
Latoya's out.

- (cheryl and sandy):
You fired her?

- Not exactly.
Apparently, she don't

wanna do this no more, so.
- Well damn, ok.

- Nah! What are we
gonna tell people?

I mean, she is
on the album cover.

- So? Group members switch up
all the time.

Van halen switched
they lead singer.

As long as the music's hot,
nobody cares.

- Ok, hurby.
- Hey, hey, hey.

Nobody's opinion matters more
to me than yours, baby.

- Mm-hmm.

- Huh? You said what you said
and I heard it.

A'ight? Now what's done is done.

But you did make a good point.

- So we don't need a dj?
- Right?

- I ain't say all of that.
- (both): So what you sayin'?

- Cheryl and sandra, meet dee.

Dee, meet cheryl and sandra.
- Yo, how old are you?

- 16.
- So you in high school?

- Yeah, in brooklyn. My parents
said it's ok if I do this.

- Yo, what's your dj name?
- Spinderella. We gonna keep it

simple for the fans.
- You know how to dj?

- Yeah. I mean,
I started a year ago,
but my boyfriend, he taught me.

- Yes, and she's gettin' better
and better every day.

And she can rap too!
Yo, check this out.

Yo, play, let 'em see it.
Check this out.

- See what my boy got?
- This is what I got
for the logo.

- That's dope!
- Yo, I like that!

Yeah, I like that,
the way the s goes into the p.

- Yeah, you all right.
- Yo, you are mad talented.

- You all right.
- Show the other
drawing. Come on.

- And this could be
like your tour jackets.

- Yo, that's dope!
- Still workin' on it.

- Made up for
the last drawing, right?

Hey! Yo, play, you a g,
brother. All right.

Don't forget what I told you.
You and kid are up next,

so be ready.
- Hey!

Let's get a photograph, yo.
- Yes, yes. Let's document

all of this. Come on.
- Would you mind?

- Oh, hey! Yo, get in on this.

You're part of the group now.
Let's go.

- ? nothing can stop us ?

- here we go!
- Idol makers!

- ? we doin' big thangs ?

? my cool is on top ?
- idol makers. Yeah!

- Hold up, hold up!
- I got it, I got it!

- Hurby! I got
some news, brother!

I got some good news!
I just hung up

with the promoter.
Tour dates are set! Ladies!

You are officially
the opening act for the fat boys

on their wipeout tour!
- What?!

- (hurby): Ladies,
you hear that? We on the tour!

My man j.P. Is doing his job.

Hey, let's get
this choreography down. Steve!

- Hey, I got you! I got you!

- let's do this one 'cause you

know I need help.
- We goin' on tour!

- Yeah!
- See? I be messin' up!

- It's all right.
I'll give it to you.

- ? ah, push it ?

- yo, turn it up!
- Come on, man! Turn it up!

- Ooh!
- ? ah, push it ?

- dude! Oh, man!

- Oh, yeah! Woo!
- Oh, yeah! That is fresh!

(cheering and applause)

- ? hit it ?
- ? ooh, baby, baby ?

- ooh!
- ? baby, baby ?

- ? ooh, baby, baby,
ba-baby, baby ?

- I gotta go so bad, girl!
- I gotta pee!

- Uh-uh!
- This ain't

no men's room! We're makin' this
the women's room now!

- Yup, I heard that!
- ? ah, push it ?

- when I was young,
my parents used to throw parties

on the weekend.
They would charge people

at the door.

But look around you.
Look, look.

White boy execs, your boyfriend,

they all gettin'
money off of us.

- ? salt and pepa's here,
and we're in effect ?

? want you to push it, babe ?

? coolin' by day then at night
working up a sweat ?

? come on girls,
let's go show the guys ?

? that we know how to become ?

? number one in a hot
party show, now push it ?

- ? ah, push it ?
- ? push it good ?

- ? ah, push it ?
- ? push it real good ?

- (man): Yeah, salt! I'm gonna
push it with you, girl!
- ? push it good ?

- ? ah, push it ?
- ? p-push it real good ?

- ? ooh, baby, baby,
baby, baby ?

? ooh, baby, baby ?

? b-baby, baby ?
- (man): Sandra!
I love you, girl!

Yeah!
- ? push it good ?

? push it real good ?
- ? ah ?

? push it ?

- throw it down! Break it down!

Uh! Push it!

push it real good!

- ? yo, yo, yo, yo, baby-pop ?

? yeah, you!
Come here, give me a kiss ?

? better make it fast
or else I'm gonna get pissed ?

? can't you hear
the music's pumpin' hard ?

? like I wish you would ?
- that was crazy!

- ? let's push it ?
- (man): Hey! Yo, baby!

- Yo, back up!
- Give me that jacket, girl!

- Get off my girl!
(man grunts)

come on! Let's go!
- ? push it real good ?

- thank you. Thank you.
I'll take two.

Here. Now, we gonna
have fun tonight

because why?
This is our party!

Look! Look into the wheel.
Look into the wheel...

- ? push it ?
- (man): Yeah!

(cheering)
- (man): Woo! Ok! Yo!

Salt! Salt, right here!

- (man): This is my jam!
Push it, baby!

(laughing)
- girl, I'm never

doin' that again.
- Puff it!

Puff it real good!

- russell simmons said
you ladies weren't gonna last.

- How you like us now?
We are the queens of rap.

- There is none higher.
- Now, that's bold. I love it.

You two have
no fears dissing men.

And the thing is most rappers--
well, most artists period,

they struggle for years
trying to get radio play

or a song on the charts, and you
ladies have come out of nowhere.

- The rap game just kind of
came to us, right?

- Mm-hmm.
- And I notice you don't rap

about the street life like
a lot of male rappers do.

- No. We just like
being ourselves,

havin' fun and not being grimy.
- Right.

- You could see that
out your window.
- Mm, I heard that.

- You guys are like
the rap cindy lauper,

"girls just wanna have fun?"
- well, we definitely wanna sell

as many records as she does.
- Yes.

- I can tell
just from being around you

that you are very close,
almost like sisters.

- Yeah.
- You know you can't have

the salt without the pepa.
- I mean...

- Or the spin!
- (both): Or the spin!

- Or the spin.
- All right.

I} What a show!

Give it up for salt-n-pepa!

- Girl, we've made it.
- I know, finally!

Can I use your lipstick tonight?

Ooh. We're gonna look
so fierce for the boys.

Pep and salt together tonight.

Ah!
- Mm-mm. Girl, I'm keeping

my big ass right here
in this big ass tub.

- Damn! Sheriff cheryl.
You don't ever wanna come out

and just have a good time.

Please come out.
- Nah, girl.

Ain't nothin'
in them clubs for me.

Besides, hurby had to go
to a meeting, and I don't wanna

be gone when he gets back.
- Y'all,

have a look!
How do your dress look?

- Cute!
- You look great,

but your underage self's
not goin' nowhere.

- What? Come on! You really want
me to practice right out there

in the room for real?
- Absolutely.

Think of it as your homework.

Two hours of mixing
after every show every night.

You can look good
for the turntables though.

- Hey, chill.

I'm goin' out!

- can I get a whiskey?
- I got you.

- Thank you.
- (woman): Can you
grab me a drink?

- (woman): Here you go, boys.
- Uh, give me a minute.

somethin' you wanna say?

- Yeah.

You a real triflin' ass.

Was that your meeting?

- You know, people ask me
why I picked you for this group

all the time.

They say you ain't got
no class, you ghetto.

Now, kid and play?

Salt-n-pepa?

Not ghetto.

I don't do ghetto.

I let those other rappers be
gangster and nasty.

'cause what I found out is

the music you make reflects
the life you live.

Understand me?

If you say anything
about tonight,

I'll drop you quicker
than a teenage father.

- That's the best you got?

You have fun tonight.

There's nothing
I could tell cheryl

that she don't already know.

- do it again, sandra.
- I said the damn line

20 times exactly like you.
- No, you didn't.

The word is introduction.
You keep saying inner-duction.

You soundin' all ghetto. Cheryl
did it. Now it's your turn.

- So?! It's a rap song!
It's supposed to sound ghetto.

And I keep tellin' you,
stop comparin' me to cheryl.

- You wanna be on the record?
Do it again.

- I'll just go in there
and help her.

- Mm-mm! She a big girl.
You wanted to share your cheque

with her, right?
Let her earn it.

- Excuse me?!
Are the two lovebirds

talkin' about me again?
- No, I was just sayin' I can

come in there and help you.
- I don't need you to help.

Press record!

- I'll get it.

- Go. Jamaican pronunciation

or not, say it right!

- hello?
- (woman): [yeah...]

right now. May I take a message?

Hello?
- [it's cheryl, right?]

- yeah, this is cheryl.
Who is this?

- [don't worry about it.
You'll figure it out]

[soon enough.
But you might wanna]

[change those sheets
on the bed in the basement.]

[or don't. It's up to you.]

(call ends)
(line beeping)

- (sandra): Can you
press record, please?

Put your hands down.
Press record.

- Run it again. Let's go.

??

nope. Do it again!
Do it again! Come on, man!

- In-tro-duc-tion.

- Who was it?

- Wrong number.

- One more time. Again, come on!
(mouths word)

Ooh, my goodness!

- (woman): All right! Yeah!

- (woman): That's what
I'm talking about!

- heavy d & the boyz,
you lookin' sexy tonight!

- Yeah!
- Oh, uh, I'm gonna catch up

with y'all later.

- Ok with your...
- (both): ...Fast self!

- Can't wait to see you
tonight, hammer!

- Hey, baby. You know how I do.

- Hey, you gonna come
holler at me later?

- You already know.
- Ok.

- So you and hammer's brother?
For real?

- Nah, no. He's mad smart.
Hey, girls. He be teaching me

about the business...
And I'm learnin' so much.

It's not like that.
- Oh, I bet he do. Hey!

Have a good show tonight!
- Hey! Lookin' good!

- hey baby, let me
talk to you for a second.
- Hi, hurby. How you doin'?

- Uh-huh. Yeah.
- I'm fine.

I'm gonna see you in a second.
- (cheryl): All right.

- Hey, louis.
- Mm.

How many points you and cheryl
gettin' on your album sales?

- Six points.
- That ain't bad,

but y'all could be doin' better
than six points each.

- I ain't say we was gettin'
six points each.

Hurby's gettin' six points.
We are splittin' the six,

so me and cheryl is gettin'
three and three.

(scoffs)
- what, that's bad?

- Hurby?! Bitch,
you gettin' robbed!

Don't you see that?

Six points is
record industry standard.

They got you makin' what,
half that much?

Come on, man.

- So tell me, what am I
supposed to do, then?

We already signed the contract.

- Contracts are meant
to be renegotiated.

Look, sandy, y'all sold
two million records

and you gettin' the same deal
as before you sold

two million records.
Y'all gotta get six points each

plus bonuses. Go back to your
label and get your damn money.

- So listen, why don't you
tell me what I need to do

and what I need to say?

- Write this down.

- Y'all squared up?

Studio is yours for the night.
- All right, dope. I'm ready.

I'm just waitin' on y'all.
(beeping)

- hey, um...

I gotta jet, guys.

Somethin' came up.
I gotta handle it.

Later, man.

- Yo, what? Where you going?
Who was that?

- Eddie. You know,
it's work stuff.

- Yo, we got the studio
for the rest of the night.

Are you comin' back?
- Not tonight, but...

We'll just reschedule
for another day, all right?

I love you, babe.

- you know, you got me

for the whole night if you want.
- Thanks, al,

but we'll just reschedule.
- Nah, she's gonna stay.

Come on now, cheryl.
You done two albums

now with hurby, man.
You've been at every session,

watchin' everything he does.
- It's different.

- Come on, girl. No, it's not.

You got this.

- You think I could do this?
- I know you can.

I've watched you girls,
like, grow up. I...

It's only been four years,
but it feels like 20.

(scoffs)
- I heard that.

- The point is that you're
capable of a lot more

than you think you are,
with or without hurby.

- I appreciate that
comin' from you.

- It's all good.

- So you're here to stay, right?
(chuckles)

- nah, it's time for me to step.

Look, man.

Me and hurby...
We decided to part ways.

I just came by to say goodnight
to you, that's all.

- J.P., why are you leavin'?
- For lots of reasons!

Look, the game has changed.
This whole gangster

rapping stuff,
disrespecting women, that's not

why I got into hip hop!
- Yeah, but we don't do that.

- Yeah, which is why you need
to take your pen out

and start writing. You need
to figure out what it is

that you want to say.

cheryl...

...Sisters need to know
that somebody in hip hop

is holdin' it down for them.

You feel me?

- what's first?

- Play the track.
- 'ey.

- hey! What's up?
- Hey! What's happening,
baby sis?

Where's your girl cheryl?
- I don't feel like

all that drama today.
I'm takin' a break.
That's why I bought myself

a little toy.
- Ooh!

(laughing)
the new benz?!

- Yeah.
- Damn! You bought it?!

Jeez! How much
that set you back?

- 64 gs but it was worth it.
I had that bad boy

up to 150 miles in 20 seconds.
- You see?

That's where your problem is.
Damn! Why you gotta drive
so damn fast?

- Because life is too short

to drive slow, duh!
- See, that's how you can

get a ticket. I'm done with you.
- Little red riding hood is

in the house.
So what are you drinkin'?

- I just got here.
I ain't drinkin' nothin'.

- Well, whatever you want,
I got you.

Matter of fact,
I'm buyin' for everybody.

Hey, y'all. Next round's on me.

- look, man. If you tryin'
to impress me,

you did.
- Yeah?

I saw you come in,
wanted to say what's up.

Wasn't sure I was gonna get
another chance.

You're beautiful.

Enjoy your night.

- (whispering): Get over here!
Yo, who is that?!

- That's tah tah!
He's in here all the time.
- He slingin'? What he do?

- Not that I know of,
and I would know. Pretty sure

he's got his own business
or something. Wanted me

to give you his number.
But of course,

I ain't lettin'
nobody get to me to get

to you.
- But listen, you tell him

if he want my number,
he's gotta race.

- you did this entire
thing yourself?

No hurby?
- He was busy

so I just, you know,
went for it.

What do you think?
- I think...

We got our first single.

We gotta make a video
right away.

- ? express yourself,
you gotta be you ?

? and only you, babe,
express yourself ?

? and let me be me ?

? express yourself ?

[girl, no. Put on
something sexy tonight.]

[we are going to sharkey's.
And I got a guy for you.]

- (cheryl): [ok,
and what about hurby?]

- [I ain't say you gotta
marry him! Just meet him.]

[his name is gavin. He's cute.
He's real. And he ain't no
industry dude.]

- ooh!
- So cheryl and I decided

we gonna throw our own parties.
- Ok.

- Right here at sharkey's.
- That's right.

Every Tuesday night.
- Ok, but hold on. How y'all

gonna get the liquor licence?
I mean, y'all know

that ain't easy, right?
- Mm-hmm.

- Two bad bitches like us?
We'll figure something out.

If they can make
money off of us...

- (cheryl and sandy): ...We can
make money off of us.

(cheering)
- gavin, it's beautiful here.

- So what's your situation?

I mean, you and this hurby guy,
what, you guys

together-together?
- Yup.

For almost five years now.
- Wow.

So you got no time
for no one else, huh?

oh! Yo, I love these.
I'll buy you a hotdog?

- Uh, no, it's ok.
I'm tryin' to watch my figure.

- You look fine to me.
- Can I get anything for you?

- My man, let me get a...
Hot dog with the relish,

with mustard and relish on that.

- All right.
- Thank you.

- You know what, gavin?
I'm ok here.

- You sure?
- Yeah.

- All right.
Well, uh, get home safe.

All right?
- Yeah. You too.

Hey, gavin?

I'll see you around, I'm sure.

- All right.

- ? work your body ?

? oh yeah, oh yeah,
work that ?

? oh yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah, oh yeah ?

? go ahead, girls,
express yourself ?

? my party, your party,
anytime drop in ?

? cold hip-hop
is always rockin' ?

? don't you like it
when the music drop ?

? jump, spread out and stop,
now bring in ?

? the go-go, uh-oh,
look at how my butt go ?

? rock from the left
to the right, you wanna ?

? step to me,
I know you wanna ?

- I got you a little somethin'.
- Oh, baby, this is...

(tah tah chuckles)
this is beautiful. Oh...

- ? I've long ago
learned my lesson ?

? it's all about expression,
will the real salt-n-pepa ?

? please stand?
And... Express yourself ?

? you've got to be you, babe ?

? express yourself
and let me ?

? be me ?

? express yourself,
don't tell me ?

? what to do, babe,
express yourself ?

? come on and work that body ?
(phone ringing)

? express yourself ?

? you got to be you, babe ?

? express yourself ?

? don't tell me
what to do, babe ?

- you tell him
it's 300, all right?

let me call you back later.

Ooh! How you doin', baby?

- Hi.
- Ah! Ah! Ah!

Y'all done yet?
- Not yet. But, um...

I wanted to talk
to you about somethin'.

- Ok. Ok. What's up?
- I was tryin' to wait,

but I can't wait anymore.
I just wanna... Tell you.

- Ok. Yeah, what's up?

- I'm pregnant.

You don't have nothin' to say?

- What am I supposed to say?
- I don't know. Somethin' like,

baby, I'm so happy.
I can't wait to get married.

I can't wait to move in.
Something like that.

- You know, I figured
you were on the pill.

- I'm not. And I'm sorry
to disappoint you,

but newsflash: I'm gonna

have your baby. Period.

- are you ok?
- No, I'm not.

I hate doin' stuff like this.

Girl...
- Cheryl, you gotta have my back

up there because if they think
--hold up--if they think

we're not together,
it's not gonna work.

- I'm with you, girl.
I'm just a little nervous

is all. You sure
you remember what to say?

- I got everything memorized.
- Ok.

- We got this!
- Ok.

- Just chill. We got it.

- So where's this
all coming from?

Since when do you ladies wanna
renegotiate your deals?

- Well, we've actually been

thinking about it for a while.

We think that now is
the right time.

- Hmm. For a while, huh?

- (woman): Girls, I realize
that I'm new to the team,

but I gotta tell you
this is, uh...

Gonna be difficult.

- We'll see.

Talk to me.

What's this really about?

- It's... Like you once told us.

We were so focused on the show

when we needed to be
about the business.

- Like cheryl said,
the bottom line is

we're taking a meeting
with eddie o.

And we're gonna
tell him what we want.

Now, if y'all wanna stand
with us, that's great.

And if you don't, we might have
to seek some other options.

Different management.
- (hurby): Hmm.

- Better management.

- Is this what you want?

- Yes. And it's

what we're gonna get.

- Ok.

I guess there's
nothin' more to talk about.

Let's call eddie o.

- (woman): Can you put me
through to eddie o, please?

- ooh! Ooh!
- Ooh! I'm pregnant!

- Ok!
- Girl, did you see his face?

- you are so precious, you!

Look at those little cheeks!

Oh, my goodness!
Look at those cheeks!

You're so sweet, you know?
- We was just droppin' by.

I didn't realize
you were, um, workin'.

- What's his name?
- Damon.

- Little baby damon,
you are the cutest thing

I've ever seen!

- Steve!
- Tell her!

- mm, mm, mm!

- Um, trina...

Can you excuse us, please?
I need to talk to cheryl alone.

- What the hell was that about?

And don't lie.
- Cher...

Damon's my son.

- You know,
I knew you wasn't shit,

but I never thought
that you was this low.

- Hey, that happened
on our break. A'ight?

- What break?! I ain't never
took no break from you!

So what, that girl,
you with her now?

- No! No! I'm just handlin'
my responsibilities! I mean,

what else you want me to do?
- No, don't!

- Cher, we can do this!
- Don't touch me!

You and I are done.

This is finished.
- You don't mean that.

- We can still work together
only because we have a contract,

but as far as you and I?

That's a wrap.
Don't call my house

unless it's pertaining to
salt-n-pepa, do you hear that?

- You're not gonna throw away
everything we built over this

little mistake?
- A little mistake?!

Hurby, you kidding me?
That's a wrap.

(sobs)
- cher, come on...

- [cheryl, I'm in labour!
Meet me at the hospital!]

[now!]
- ok. Ok.

(sandy groans)
- (man): Hey, yo!

B! Right here! Yo!

- Oh, it's starting to hurt,
nurse! Cheryl!

Have you seen
my friend, cheryl? Cheryl!

- Girl, I'm right here!
I made it! And guess what?

- No, no, no! Let me
tell you about tah tah!

He promised me he was goin'
to come up here!

He did not even come up here!
- Well, listen--

- why he don't love me?
- I don't know, sandy,

but guess what?
I am here, and I got you, girl.

I got you, ok? I'm here.
- Yes.

Miss nurse, you said
I could have more drugs.

Miss nurse, can I
have them, please? Ooh! Ah!

- You got it. You got it.
- Yeah.

Thank you.
- It's ok. Careful. Careful.

- What was you
tryin' to tell me?
- Girl, I did it.

Girl, I finally left his ass.

- Hurby?
- Yes! And listen, I know

I could've left his ass
a long time ago,

but he taught me everything.
I know how to do this now.

- I'm so proud of you.
'cause you know he been jealous

of us from the start. And it's
gonna be different now.

- God is good.
- Preach it, girl.

And I want you to do my hair
like you did last time. Please?

- Yeah, you want me
to do your hair, pep?

Tell me how you want me
to do your hair.

- Remember you parted it
like when we was freshman?

- Ok.
- (both): I love you.

- ? loving you ?

- ooh, bitch,

don't ever leave me.

- Ever.

- (cheryl): You remember gavin?
- (sandy): Yup!

Told you he was a good one.
- Yeah,

and he's just what I need
after hurby.

- The hiv virus

that I have obtained, um...

I will have to retire
from the lakers.

- (cheryl): Truth is
the whole aids thing

scared everybody,
and if you wasn't scared,

you was a fool.

- ? let's talk about sex ?

? let's talk about sex for now,
to the people at home ?

? or in the crowd,
it keeps coming up anyhow ?

? don't be coy, avoid,
or make void the topic ?

- mommy'll get you
somethin' to eat.

What you want?

You want a donut?
Say hey to your greedy auntie.

- Auntie is having
your cousin, so...

I have an excuse.

- Ty, I'm gonna get you
some food, ok?

You want some grapes, ty?

- I need everything,
and I mean--

- we know you need...
- (both): ...Everything.

- Ty? Wait. Where did ty go?

- (man): Yeah, son!
You was killin' it! Yeah, man!

- Hey. That's my son.
I just put him down

like a second ago.
He ran right over here.

- It's cool, man! He's a little
cool dude, man, you got here!

- He never... Ever lets
anybody pick him up.

- Yeah. It's all good, though.
Don't even sweat that. Cool.

- Your voice is like...
I heard it before.

- Oh, probably
the radio or somethin'.

Me and my--my group
got a song out.

- O.P.P.
- Yeah, yeah!

- That's my joint!
- Oh, yeah? Hell yeah.

I'm treach.
- I'm pepa.

- I already know
who you are, pep. Yeah.

Yo, y'all somethin' dope.
- Thank you.

You know, that's salt and spin.
- Yeah, I feel you.

- You're from jersey, right?

- Yeah, born and raised.
You ever been to east orange?

- Yeah, I been to east orange.
- Oh, yeah?

- No.
- You're from queens, right?

- Yeah. Originally,
I'm from jamaica, though.

But I grew up in queens.

I still got a condo there.
- Yeah?

- Yeah.
- That's what I'm talkin' about.

I'm tryin' to get money
and keep it right in the 'hood.

Yo, y'all's show was dope too.

You got some nice bars.
- Word?

- Yeah! "call me a crook,
a robber, a thief,

but I'll be your butcher
if you've got beef."

- that's--
- yo! Yeah, you go hard, yo.

- Thank you. I appreciate that
comin' from you.

- Yeah? Hmm.

What's... Whoa!

- You scared of heights?

- Hell yeah!

- You tough. Come on. Come on!
- Hell no!

Oh, you crazy as hell!
- Can you

handle all this crazy?

- give it up
for salt-n-pepa, everybody!

that was hot, girls.
That was hot.

That song you just performed,
"let's talk about sex." did you

have any idea it'd be so big?
- I mean,

we thought it could be
'cause we had caught

so much flak for "push it,"
you know what I'm sayin'?

- Exactly. So this was
our challenge

to the radio stations.
Like, oh, you thought we took it

there before? Let's see
how you handle this.

- Yeah. Like, everybody think
about sex, and they so...

Hush-hush. That's what I think

actually contributes
to the aids problem in america.

- Yeah.
- That's the perfect transition.

Because of some of the backlash
you got with this song,

you actually had people reach
out for you in order to change

the words to help aids.
Can you speak to that?

- Oh, yeah. Peter jennings,
he reached out to salt-n-pepa

for us to change
from "let's talk about sex"

to "let's talk about aids"
'cause his daughter is
a fan of ours,

and, um, we did that.
And we think more rappers need

to use they voice to really
address the aids epidemic.

- Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, this thing
has gone international.

You're the first rap group
to go number one in germany,

australia, and it just
keeps climbing.

Can we talk a little
about your image?

'cause you ladies,
you know, are role models

for a lot of women out there.
- Thank you for saying that.

- It's the truth. Am I lyin'?
(cheering and applause)

- we recorded
songs on this album

like "independent"
and "expression"

so that young girls know
that they can be themselves

and let their voices be heard.
And also too that they can do

anything that a man does.
(cheering)

you know, we like to say
that we bring fun,

fashion and femininity
to hip hop.

- Yeah. And sandy, you recently
became a mom, correct?

- Yeah, I have a son, tyran.

I had him last July.
(audience "awws")

- and cheryl,
you're expecting as well?

- I am. I figure
pepa had a baby,

so I figured it was time
for me to catch up.

- Yeah, that's right, I forgot.
You and your producer hurby

have been together for a while.
I mean, with all this goin' on,

you three are still
out on the road,

tourin', doin' videos,
recordin' more songs.

I mean, do rappers not get
maternity leave?

- I mean, what can we say?
A woman's work is never done.

(whooping)
- I don't understand

what you so upset about. What
did I say that was so wrong?

- It's not what you said! It's
what you didn't say, cheryl!

Everybody's gonna think hurby's
the father and you didn't
even acknowledge me!

- Arsenio caught me off guard
and it wasn't a good time
to mention--

- it wasn't a good time
to mention what?

That the father of the baby in
your stomach is a nobody? Hmm?

- gavin...
- What?

- You knew I wasn't over hurby
but you pursued me anyways.

Why?

- I guess we'll never know.

- come on, now.
Come on. Give me a big push.

- Yeah, cheryl. You
gotta push it good!
- Don't say that!

hi!
- Nah. Nah, I don't like it.

- You don't like
none of our ideas.

- Because it's not salt-n-pepa.
Why fix what ain't broken?

- 'cause we need to
stay current. We need to come up

with a track that's
gonna knock in the jeeps,

somethin' gritty.
- Yeah. I wanna make a hit.

- What, like that
"none of your business" song?

- Exactly. That's a hit.
- It's some b.S. Is what it is.

Talkin' 'bout
"if she wanna be

a freak and sell it
on the weekend?"

hurby, we are mothers. What kind
of example is that setting?

- Look, this is my group.

We gonna stick to the formula.
- Oh, it's your group?

'cause the last time I checked,
it was salt-n-pepa.
- Exactly.

It wasn't salt, pepa 'n hurby.
Don't you forget that part.

- Oh! So y'all think y'all can
do this better than me?

- I have a suggestion.
Album's supposed to be

12 tracks, right? So why don't

they do one half,
you do the other half

and only the best songs
make the cut?

- Hmm. I like that.
- I could live with it.

- Yeah, me too. Thank you, al.

Finally, a man that gets us.
(hurby scoffs)

- come on, tyran. Let's go.
(tyran laughing)

- so y'all not gonna
clean up this mess?

- (cheryl and sandra): It's none
of your business.

- there's nothin' wrong with
a little friendly competition,

right?
- Nah. Not at all.

- (man): Yeah, you lookin'
fine though.

- (sandy): Y'all havin' fun?
Good.

Hey, girl!
- (woman): Hey, girl!

- (sandy): Oh, this your man?
He's cute!

- (man): Nice to meet you.

- yeah.

hey! I ain't see you in forever!

Oh, my god!

Who you talkin' to? Hello?

Why you not here?
(sandy laughs)

- (woman): You trippin'!
I did not look at your man!

- (man): Come on, man! Let's go.
- (woman): Ok, you trippin' now.

I did not look at your man.

You crazy, girl!

- good evening, mrs. Williams.
Good to see you.

- Hello?
- Hey, girl. I got a song.

We gotta get in the studio.
- Girl, this is not

a good time. I'm gettin' ready
to walk into church.

- Man, forget church
just for a second!

[I got a bomb ass idea.]

- sandy, I don't give
a damn about...

- Good evening, miss james.
- Hi.

Sandy, you are
workin' my nerves.

[tell me your idea and quick.]
- ok. Bust it.

So listen, I was just writin',

it was just flowin' out
of my pen.

You know what I'm gonna call it?
"shoop." what you think?

- What is "shoop?"
- [what it means!]

like, let's say you see
a cute guy and you tryin'

to talk to him.
You don't have to wait for him

to try and talk to you.
You can just talk to him!

We don't have to wait for men.
We can do what we want to do.

Shoop!
- [yeah, that's...]

that's dope. I'll work
on my verse when I get home.

Now goodbye, sandy.
- [bye.]

woo! Baby, you scared me.
What's up?

- Uh-huh. Bet I did.

Who you sneak off and talk to?

- I didn't sneak off
to talk to anybody.

It was loud out here. I came
in here to talk to cheryl.

I was inspired by...

- You was inspired?
- Yeah, I was inspired

to do a new song.
- Inspired?

- Yeah.
- Who the hell are you?

Beethoven or something?
- Why you actin' like that?

- the hell y'all lookin' at?!

Huh?!
- (man): You know what it is.

- (treach): Got somethin'
to say?!

? here I go, here I go again ?

? girls, what's my weakness? ?
- ? men! ?

- ? ok then,
chillin', chillin' ?

? mindin' my business,
yo, salt, I looked around ?

? and I couldn't believe this
I swear, I stared ?

? my niece the witness,
the brother had it goin' on ?

? with somethin'
kind of, uh, wicked ?

? wicked, had to kick it ?

? I'm not shy, so I asked... ?

you gonna go with auntie?
- (cheryl): Yeah.

You good?
- Yeah, I'm a'ight.
- (tyran): Goodbye.

- Bye, baby.
- Bye, mommy. Bye-bye.

- Cheryl.
- Treach.

- What?

- Baby, listen. Listen. Listen.
- All right. All right.

- I been through a lot, babe.

Our song, "ghetto bastard,"
that's my life, pep.

No father.

Mom's kicked me out.

Had to sleep in the parks.

Never had nothin'.

Felt like nobody loved me,
you know what I'm sayin'?

because of the way I grew up,

yeah, my anger gets away
from me sometimes.

So when you made
that call, like...

...Closed the door on me,
I thought you was just tryin'

to play me out, you know?

You know what I'm sayin'?
I just lost it.

I lost it, baby.

I missed you.
(sandy sniffles)

- always drama with your girl.

Never fails.

- ? here I go, here I go again,
girls, what's my weakness? ?

- ? men! ?
- ? ok, then, chillin' ?

? chillin, minding my business ?
- am I my sister's keeper?

- Yeah. Yes, I am.

- (both): Cmv. Cash money, baby.

- ? wicked, wicked,
had to kick it ?

- (man on radio): Our girls
salt-n-pepa start their world

tour today,
but they done had them kids.

They gettin' a little
bit chunky. Let's see

how they hold up. We gonna be
callin' them meat-n-potatoes.

- ? make me wanna do
tricks for him, lick him ?

? like a lollipop
should be licked ?

? came to my senses
and I chilled for a bit ?

? don't know how you do
the voodoo that you do so well ?

? it's a spell, hell,
makes me wanna shoop ?

? shoop, shoop ?
- come on, it's this way!

- Ladies, come on!

- Slow down! Excuse me!
- You gotta move faster!

- ? you're packed,
and you're stacked,
'specially in the back ?

? brother, wanna thank your
mother for a butt like that ?

? can I get some fries
with that shake-shake boobie? ?

? if looks could kill you would
be an uzi, you're a shotgun ?

? bang! What's up
with that thang? ?

? I wanna know how does it hang?
Straight up, ?

? wait up, hold up, mr. Lover ?

? like prince said,
you're a sexy mutha ?

? well, uh,
I like 'em real wild ?

? b-boy style by the mile ?

? smooth black skin with a smile
bright as the sun ?

? I wanna have some fun,
come and give me some of that ?

? yum-yum,
chocolate chip, honey dip, ?

? can I get a scoop?
Baby, take a ride in my coupe ?

? you make me wanna shoop
- shoop ba-doop ?

- ? baby, hey...
- Shoop ba-doop, ba-doop ?

? shoop ba-doop,
ba-doop, ba-doop ?

- ? don't you know
I wanna shoop, baby ?

- well, listen. We are
our own bosses. We are mothers,

and we worked damn hard for
these bodies. There's nothing

wrong with showin' off what
you got! Tastefully, though.

- Or not! You know, I'm
from jamaica so I don't care.

? pep's on the set,
make you get hot ?

? make you work up a sweat when
you skip-to-my-lou, my darling ?

? not falling in love,
but I'm falling for your... ?

? mm, when I get you,
bet your bottom dollar ?

? you were best under pressure ?
- (man ): Yo, sandy,

I wanna, like, taste you.
- ? get your lips wet ?

? 'cause it's time to have pep
- on your mark, get set, go ?

? let me go, let me shoop
to the next man ?

? in the three-piece suit
I spend all my dough ?

? ray me cutie,
shoop shoop a-doobie ?

? like scoobie doobie doo
I love you in your big jeans ?

? you give me nice dreams,
you make me wanna scream ?

? ooh, ooh, ooh, I like
what you do, when you do ?

? what you do,
you make me wanna shoop ?

- ? shoop, shoop ba-doop,
shoop ba-doop ?

- oh, my goodness...
He... Ooh, girl.

Look at him. He is
the cutest brother in here.

And he's comin' this way! Ooh!

- ? shoop ?
uh-uh.

Yeah. That's right.

what is this on tv?

Girl, I'm so tired.

Can't even change
this tired russian show.

- so the other day I was out,

and I seen this baby
with her grandma.

I asked if I could hold her.

Girl, I almost

broke down cryin'.

Then the mother comes back,
sees some black chick holdin'

her little russian baby, and she
gave me this look like...

- Of course she did.
(both laughing)

- yo, I didn't even care.
It just felt

so good to hold her
for a minute,

pretended she was coco.

- I know, but we're gonna be
done soon. I'm tired too.

Can't wait to get back
to see both of my babies,

ty and treach.
- Ahem.

- What you clear
your throat like that for?

- You already know how I feel.
Treach is fine and all,

but he need to get
his anger issues under control.

- He don't be like that
all the time.

He just don't like when I be
gettin' smart with him.

But he's very good.
He takes tyran when I'm tired

to preschool.
And he wanna put him in soccer.

Treach is a good man.

And speakin' of that,
when you gonna give gavin

another shot?
- I'm not thinking
about gavin. Sit back.

- Alright. Let me guess,

you just gonna be a lesbian.
- Listen,

between work and corin,
I'm not in the mental space

to be considering any man.

- But you're considering that
vibrator in your luggage.
I seen it.

- Listen, trick, what's
in my suitcase is none
of your business.

- I seen it!
- I will spray you.
- Oh, it's like that.

- Stay on your side of the room.
- I just wanna see it!

- For what?
- 'cause I'm looking to--

let me see it!
- What you need to see
my suitcase for?

- Aight.
- Thank you.

- Thought we was friends.
(laughing)

- no, for real, like,
you ever think, like,
what's the point of this?

- What, being in russia?
I know, 'cause it's cold.

- Nah, pep, like,
all of it. Like,

we do a album, shoot videos
for it, on the road,

do press, shoot more videos,
get like a month off,

then it's time to record another
album, shoot more videos,

and do it all over again.

Like, I don't even know who I am
outside of the image
that we've created.

- Don't you remember what
you told me when we got signed?

This is the life
that we chose?

And I like this life,
I don't know about you.

- Yeah, but did we really?
I was 19, and you were 20.

Like, did we know what we was
doing? Now our kids are
growing up without us

and we're in russia
doing yo! Mtv raps.
- So?

Why don't you stop complaining?
Don't this beat working
at sears?

Yo, why don't you take some time
and just relax?

Just enjoy our life.
Maybe if you stopped being

so stressed out, you would stop
stressing me out.

- Oh, I'm stressing you out?
- Yes, you are. It's getting
on my nerve.

- Girl, you not hearing me.

I don't know how much more
of this I can take.

Like, am I supposed
to be 50 and 60

talking 'bout some "push it,
push it real good"?

You don't ever think there's,
like, more to life than this?

really, pep?

- yo, vigor, more sexy,
come on, man, push it.

- Yo! Y'all!

You gotta take out
none of your business.

- Whoa, whoa, hold up.
According to who?

- Susan taylor, the editor-in-
chief of essence? The whole
reason that we here?

She personally told me that she
don't want us doing that song.

- If we take it out, it's gonna
mess up the whole set.

- Plus it's our new single.
We have to do it.
- Look, this is a classy event.

She don't want us doing that
song, and I gave her my word
that we wouldn't.

I promised her.
- Nobody told you
to do that, cher.

- Yo, this is important to me.
(none of your business playing)

- show me a little more.
- Are you even hearing me?

- ? don't keep sweatin'
what I do ?

? 'cause I'm gonna be just fine,
check it out ?
- wow.

- ? if I want to take a guy
home with me tonight ?

? it's none of your business ?

? and if she want to be a freak
and sell it on the weekend ?

? it's none of your business
now you shouldn't even
get into ?

? who I'm givin' skins to,
it's none of your business ?

? so don't try
to change my mind ?

? I'll tell you one more time,
it's none of your business ?

? now who do you think you are ?

? puttin' your cheap
two cents in? ?

? don't you got nothin' to do
than worry 'bout my friends?
Check it ?

- a large chicken wings,
order of large fries,

a double cheeseburger...
I'll take a large chocolate
milkshake, please.

Twenty minutes since I had
to sit on the phone and wait
for someone to answer.

- the car will be out here in 5
minutes, you do know that,
right?

- Babe, I know, and they can
wait! We gonna meet cheryl
a little bit later

at sharky's tonight.
- Baby, I ain't trying
to be late

to my own movie premiere. Throw
them damn jeans on and let's go!

- You want me to look cute on
your arm tonight, don't you?

Well, these jeans make
my booty look thick.

- Who you trying
to look thick for?

- Who else? You!

- I axed you to rock the skirt,
you said nah, you just have
to rock these jeans.

Now you say it's 'cause they
make your ass look thick.

So, I want you
in a skirt,

but you insist on rocking
these jeans; then obviously
it ain't for me.

- Oh my god,
is this new york undercover?

Are you a detective?
Like, what are you--

- don't talk to me
like I'm stupid! The hell
I tell you 'bout that?

- I'm sorry! I'm not--

- if this was your movie
premiere, we'd have been there!
- Ok!

- Let's go!
- Ok!
- No, hurry up!

- You can't keep going back
to him, sandy!

- I know.
- It's not good for you,

or your son to see. So...
You won't come out now?

- No.
- Alright, well,
then I'm coming in.

Girl, listen. My dad was a
raging alcoholic, but that's
what I grew up with.

And yours died too soon. Neither
one of us knows what a good man

looks like, and now we stay
in relationships with men even
when they holding us back.

I got something for this.
Hold on.

You gon' come out now?

- You know, I've been thinking
about my dad a lot lately.

All I wanted to do
was make him proud.

I don't think he'd be
so proud of me right now.

- Yes, he would! Pep, you gotta
stop underestimating yourself.

You are pepa
of salt-n-pepa

and no one can ever
take that away from you.

- who was that?

- Gavin, gavin,
baby daddy gavin.

(laughing)
ok.
- It's complicated.

I'm taking him to church.
My pastor is really great.
You should come too.

Don't give me that look.
- You having sex again?

- Don't be concerned about me
and gavin having sex.

- Yes!
- Anyway...
- Ok.

- You know that label, red ant?
It's been dying to sign us.

Word on the street is they got
a lot of money and they wanna
prove themselves.

- Listen, I'm down. It's hurby

that's gonna be the problem.
Best time for us to go.

Just the two of us.
- This is business, and if hurby
want a little off the top

from this deal,
fine, he deserves it.

But if he wanna fight,

let him take us to court.

I ain't scared of hurby no more.

: All rise.

- In the matter of azor

versus james and denton,

ruling in favour of the defence,
denton and james. This case
is dismissed.

- Y'all don't owe him anything?
- Nothing. And he has to pay
our court fees, so that means

that now you can work
on your solo album.

- Good job, baby.
- Good seeing you.

- I'll see you.
- Bye, gavin. See y'all later.

- Congrats, cher. You finally
got what you wanted, free.

- It didn't need to be
this way, hurby.

We tried to get you to settle.
We were gonna give you
everything.

You let them
persuade you to sue us.

- Hey... It is what it is.

I know you hate me.

But believe it or not,
I'm proud of you.

Proud of the woman you are,

proud of what we did.
Remember that?

Came a long way from
that shy girl at sears,
I'll tell you that.

- I could never hate you.

We've been through too much
together for that.

The issues that
you and I had,

that's in the past. I'm focused
on the future now.

- Then I'm gonna head out.

- Ok. Take care of yourself.

- Maybe she forgot.

- So, what do you wanna do?
You wanna call it a day?

You can still make your meeting.

- We don't have time to be
running studio sessions
right now.

We have to deliver an album
by July. She knows that.

And can you please

get the junk food
out of my face?

- want me to try
and page her again?

- No. I'll call her.

Yo, I'm looking for sandy.
Who is this?

- Who this?
- This is cheryl.
- [oh. Babe!]

- [I'm not home!]
- [you is home.]

[she was here but she not here,
aight? She not here right now.]

can I page you back?
- [no.]

don't bother.

sandy!

- Oh! Hey, girl!

I'm sorry.
Here come the sheriff.

- So it's like that? You just
blow me off and then say

you not here when I call here?
- You know I would invite you,

but you know you. You don't like
to hang out, so no invite.
- We are supposed

to be working. I've been
in the studio with al all day.
Let me guess, you forgot?

- No, I did not forget.
I just was tired today

and I didn't wanna throw it on
my verse, but tomorrow, boom!
I'm gonna do my verse.

In fact, you probably should hit
this little blunt so you can
really cool out and be cool.

That's why I don't mess with
you, 'cause you know...
- You got it.

- We got time, cheryl.
We ain't gotta trip like this.

- You got time, but I don't.
Not for all this.

You don't even know
these people.
- They my friends.

- Friends.
- They my new friends.
- New friends, ok.

- That's why you wasn't invited.
- Ok. They ain't gonna be
around long.

- Ooh! Say how
you really feel, then.

- And what's that?
- Ok. All the shit you be
talking behind my back,

how I don't appreciate you, I
don't do nothing in the group,
I'm jealous of you...

- I never once said that
you was jealous of me.
- You better not say that,

'cause I ain't.

I can hold my own any day.
- Did I ever say you didn't?

- Pff, sometimes.
- Pep, I bend over backwards
to make you happy,

do everything that I need to do
to make sure that pep is cool,

pep is happy, pep is satisfied,
but it's never enough for you.
What the hell else

do you want from me?
- Cher, I don't want
nothing from you.

- Cher! What's up, girl? Hey,
baby girl, looking all...

Look at you. Look at you.
- Stop acting crazy!

She go to church now.

- She going to church now.
- What did I say?
- We did a normal kiss.

We did a business kiss for you.
(laughing)

no, cheryl, for real, I'ma see
you tomorrow at the studio.

I'ma be on that beat.
(vocalising)

I'm ok.

- ladies, let's be honest.

The only reason you're here is
'cause your little indie record
label went flip-flop.

Record sales are down. The only
way to make money is to tour.

- First of all, before
we agree to anything,

what are our guarantees?
What are our percentages,

our accommodations,
transpo...

- I'm still smoothing all
that out, but it's gonna be
about forty cities.

- Ok, and what about venues?
So we know how big a show
we could do.

- It ain't gonna be no arenas.
Mostly clubs. You all wanna...

Get some dancers, that's on you
two, but I'm just paying
for the two of you

plus, what is it?
Spin... Spinderella?

- Nah, that's ok. I'm good.
- Uh, excuse me?

I don't get to vote? Let me
guess, you just decide

for the whole group
as you always do.

- Oh, come on! Five years ago,
we played woodstock.

Now you wanna settle for these
little clubs with some dude

who can't even give us
basic information?
- Oh, cheryl,

some of us have bills.

- Did I tell you to go out and
buy that big-ass mansion? No.

- Did you tell me not to?

'cause I remember I asked
your opinion and you said
"go ahead, sandy!

We good now!"
did I tell you to produce

a wack-ass album? No.

- We were both responsible
for that album, if you remember.

We had an obligation
and we got it done.

Besides, that wack-ass album got
you that big-ass advance.

Now two years later you wanna
talk about bills?

- Here we go with the two years
and the past and all--

- ok, ladies, ladies, ladies.

Let's not do this here.

- Excuse me? Whose side
are you on anyway?

Why is it always up to cheryl
to hold everything together?

Fine. I'll do it.
- That's what's up.

- Oh, and I'm pregnant, so just
keep that in mind and spring
for a luxury bus.

- Ooh, thank you so much
for saving me.

She need it too.

- ? unh, yeah,
talk to me, yeah ?

? what a man, what a man, what
a man, what a mighty good man ?

? he's a mighty
mighty good man ?

? what a man, what a man, what
a man, what a mighty good man ?

? say it again now ?

? what a man, what a man, what
a man, what a mighty good man ?

? yes he is ?

? what a man, what a man, what
a man, what a mighty good man ?

? I want to take a minute or
two, and give much respect due ?

? to the man that's made
a difference in my world ?

? and although most men are hos,
he flows on the down low ?

? 'cause I never heard about him
with another girl ?

? but I don't sweat it
because it's just pathetic ?

? to let it get me involved
in that he said she said crowd ?

? I know that ain't nobody
perfect, I give props
to those who deserve it ?

? and believe me y'all,
he's worth it ?

- ok, treach asked pep
to marry him,

so I made up
the invitations.

- I did that for you!

Yes, I did!
(laughing)

- ? so here's to the future
'cause we got through the past ?

? I finally found somebody
that can make me laugh ?

? you so crazy, I think
I wanna have your baby ?

? what a man, what a man,
what a man ?

You good, girl?

- ? what a man, what a man, what
a man, what a mighty good man ?

? say it again now, what a man,
what a man, what a man ?

? what a mighty good man
my man is smooth like barry ?

? and his voice got bass
a body like arnold ?

? with a denzel face ?

I had a premonition of death.
Somebody's gonna die.

- Baby's doing ok.
Everything's fine.

But, cheryl, you have
to stop working.
- I know,

but we're almost done
with the tour--
- forget the tour.

I'm telling you as your doctor,
you have to stop. The amount
of pressure you're under

can and will hurt the baby.

o puts hot sauce on eggs?
- Well, I do, for one.

It's aight, you just ain't
ready for all that yet.

Eat all that up
and you'll see

at your basketball
game later.

- I can dribble.
- Yeah, that's what they all say
until they on a basketball court

with me. Look at your mom!

Ha! Yeah!

Yeah, she might know

what she doing.
She's good, she's good!

- They sound good.
Don't they sound sweet?

Yes. I heard on the radio
the other day

that a lot of us are
coming down with diabetes,

high blood pressure, and why?
'cause we don't correct

our relationship with food.

case in point, exhibit a:
I love... I love french fries.

But you know what I found out?
French fries don't love me back.

(audience laughs)
I do like a glass of red wine
now and then.

But if you're an alcoholic,
you might go from one wine
to five to ten...

You can't control it.
You can't find that balance
if you're an alcoholic.

If you're an alcoholic, wine
ain't gonna love you back.

And when you drink too much,
what happens? You throw up, you
purge, because your body knows

it's not good for you.
You come to understand in life

there are things we do enjoy,

some things that we do love,
but they are not good for us.

But they don't love us back.
And you know what?

It is the same thing

with people.

- Baby, I'm tired.

baby, stop.

- You supposed to be
my ride or die.

You gon' make me beg for it?

Is we married or not?
- Yes, we are married,
of course.

But does that mean every time
you wanna do it, I do? No.

- Hell's wrong with you?

- What do we love about people?

Two things. We love
who they are,

but we also have
to love who we are

with them. For example,
you may be a woman

and you might love a guy.
He's a good dude in many ways,
but he's got some anger issues,

you see what I'm saying? He
keeps putting his hands on you.
Well, you know what?

He's not gonna stop
until he's good and ready.

- You don't control me.
You don't tell me what to do.

- Oh, you telling me
how it's gonna go?
- I am.

- Nah, I'm telling you
how it's gonna go, bitch!
I wanna divorce!

How that's gonna go?
- That's fine. Whatever.
That's how it's gonna go.

- you may have
a girlfriend,

a best friend. You like
hanging out with her,
but something happens

when y'all together. You bring
out the negativity in her, and
vice-versa. The combination,

the balance, is wrong.

Crazy's not just being crazy.

Crazy is doing the same thing
again and again and again

and expecting what?
A different result.

That doesn't mean that this
person's a good person
or a bad person.

There's no judgment in this.
Don't expect them to change.
You have the power

to make that change. And you
know what? You have to control
your own well-being.

Can I get a amen?

- [hey, sandy.]

- girl, you'll be so proud
of me. I finally got--
- [no.]

[this time, I'm going first.]

- ok. Alright.
- [I just...]

wanna let you know that I don't
wanna be joined at your hip
anymore.

- What you mean? I don't
understand what you saying.

(cheryl sobs.)
- [I can't do this anymore.]

I don't want to do this anymore.

I just need you to understand,

I feel like I can't breathe.
- You can't breathe?

What's the problem?
What's going on?

- [it's... It's everything.
It's you, it's me,]

it's me not wanting to be salt
for the rest of my life.

I wanna turn my life
over to christ,

and I've tried to make this
work, you know that I have.

I don't even know who I am.

I'm in pain all the time.

I've given everything
I have to salt-n-pepa.
- [you've given everything]

to this group. Like I haven't?

[we both got kids.]

I haven't given anything
to this group?

It's been the two of us,

so anything you went through,
I was right there.
- [I know!]

but that's the point.

I need to carve out a space
that has nothing to do with you.

[to figure out what I want
from my life.]

- word.

Treach leave, you leave,
my father leave-- that's fine.

[you're quitting
just like them.]

I don't need you.

I don't even need you.

You know that premonition I had?

It was of us.

We died.

Yo, this friendship is dead.

(man): Here's wendy williams.

- (wendy): I've got some
sad news to pass along to you.

A couple of hip-hop icons
decided to hang up their stuff

and go their separate ways
for once and for all.

I'm talking about two of my
personal favorites,

sandy and sheryl,
a.K.A. Salt-n-pepa.

Normally with a group
that started out in the 80s,

when they finally decide to call
it quits after 15 years,

some people say
"it's about that time".

But this one hurts.

If either one of you all
want to spill tea, call wendy.

- well?

- Nah. It's not ready yet.

- Cheryl, you said that
about every mix.

I mean, we spent a ton of money
on this. We got all the guest
collabs you wanted,

the hottest producers you asked
for... You telling me you still
don't like it?

- It just doesn't sound right
without sandy to me.

There, I said it.

Sandy pulled me out of my box,

but I kept her
from going over the edge.

- I can't tell you
how much of a fan I am.

- Oh, thank you.
- I grew up on salt-n-pepa.

So please don't take this
as disrespect, but...

I didn't realise that,
when I called you, you guys
weren't together anymore.

Look, without salt, I just...
(phone ringing)

I just don't think
it's gonna work.
- But we can--

- yeah, go ahead? Uh-huh.

- I need to carve out a space

that has nothing to do with you.

- Nah, I'm telling you
how it's gonna go, bitch!
I wanna divorce!

- mom? Mom! The phone's for you!

- Ok, I'll be right out!

- Right, right.

Nah, I hear you. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, definitely,
I'll let her know.

Ok. Yeah.

Alright, you'll hear
from us. Bye.

- Who was that?
- Uh...

Vh1.

Producers. They wanna
honour you guys

on some, like, hip-hop
hall of fame kinda thing.

It's in September.

I kinda figured you wouldn't
wanna do it, that's why I didn't
give you the phone.

- I have to do it. Vh1 wants
to honour salt-n-pepa,

and salt says no?
I can't do that.

They don't want us
to perform, do they?

- How you feeling, sandy?
You nervous?

Excited? Pissed off?

- Yes.

for queen latifah!

- in the early days of hip-hop,
it was basically a boys' club.

All the biggest rappers
and djs were men.

And while a few pioneering
sisters did manage to make
some noise--

shout-out to roxanne shante,
sha-rock,

and the ladies of sequence--

it wasn't until our next
honorees burst onto the scene

that female rappers were finally
able to shatter hip-hop's
glass ceiling.

The duo of cheryl "salt" james

and sandy "pepa" denton started
ricking the mic in 1985
and never looked back.

Later joined by their dj,
dee dee "spinderella" roper,

they were the first female
rap group to go platinum.

They've sold over 15 million
albums worldwide, making them
one of the best-selling

hip-hop acts of all time, male
or female. They won a grammy,

they've inspired women and girls
across the globe for the past
two decades,

and they showed us the true
power of sisterhood.
(cheers and applause)

I want you all to put your hands
together and make some noise
for my girls,

the first ladies of hip-hop,
the one and only salt-n-pepa!

- we've been doing this
a long time, haven't we?

When you do it
for as long as we have,

you gon' have
some battle scars.

But we still standing.
- And when we wasn't
at our best,

our fans helped us
to wanna be better.
- We don't just stand for us,

we stand for all our ladies.
Y'all make us stronger.

- Wait, hold up, hold up.
But what about the fellas?
- What about the fellas?

We have any good men
in the house tonight?
(cheering)

any mighty good men?
??

- ? what a man,
what a man, what a man,
what a mighty good man ?

? I want to take a minute or
two, and give much respect due ?

? to the man that's made
a difference in my world ?

? and although most men are hos,
he flows on the down low ?

? 'cause I never heard about him
with another girl ?

? what a man, what a man, what
a man, what a mighty good man ?

? he keeps me on cloud nine
just like the temps ?

? he's not a fake wannabe
tryin' to be a pimp ?

? he dresses like a dapper don,
but even in jeans ?

? he's a god sent original,
the man of my dreams ?

? yes, my man says he loves me,
never says he loves me not ?

? tryin' to rush me good and
touch me in the right spot ?

? see other guys that I've had,
they tried to play all
that mac shit ?

? but every time they tried
I said, "that's not it" ?

? what a man, what a man, what
a man, what a mighty good man ?

? let's talk about sex for now
to the people at home
or in the crowd ?

? it keeps coming up anyhow ?

? don't be coy, avoid,
or make void the topic ?

? 'cause that ain't gonna stop
it, now we talk about sex on
the radio and video shows ?

? many will know, anything goes
let's tell it how it is ?

? and how it could be,
how it was, and of course,
how it should be ?

? let's talk about sex, baby
let's talk about you and me ?

? let's talk about all the good
things and the bad things
that may be ?

? let's talk about sex
let's talk about sex ?

? let's talk about sex ?

? let's talk about sex ?

? I wanna shoop, baby, shoop ?

? here I go, here I go,
here I go again ?

? girls, what's my weakness?
- Men! ?

- ? ok then, chilling, chilling,
minding my business ?

? yo salt, I looked around
and I couldn't believe this ?

? I swear, I stared,
my niece my witness ?

? the brother had it going on
with something kinda ooh ?

? wicked, wicked,
had to kick it ?

? I'm not shy so I asked
for the digits ?

? a ho, no that don't make me
see what I want, slip slide
to it swiftly ?

? um, you're packed and you're
stacked 'specially in the back ?

? brother, wanna thank your
mother for a butt like that ?

? can I get some fries with
that shake-shake boobie ?

? if looks could kill you would
be an uzi or a shotgun ?

? bang! What's up with that
thang? I wanna know,
how does it hang? ?

? shoop shoop ba-doop,
shoop ba-doop, shoop
ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop ?

? shoop shoop ba-doop,
shoop ba-doop ?

? shoop ba-doop
ba-doop ba-doop ?

? salt and pepa's here ?

? and we're in effect
want you to push it, babe ?

? coolin' by day then at night
working up a sweat ?

? c'mon girls,
let's go show the guys ?

? that we know how to become
number one ?

? in a hot party show
now push it ?

? ah, push it
push it good ?

? ah, push it
push it real good ?

? ah, push it
push it good ?

? ah, push it
p-push it real good ?

- damn, girl,
we still got the magic.

- Nobody can stop us but us.

- And you still make me crazy.
- Can you handle this crazy?

- ? ooh baby baby, baby baby ?

? ooh baby baby
push it real good! ?

- don't ever leave me, bitch.
(laughing)

- missed you.

- let's give it up again

for salt-n-pepa! 35 years in the
music business, y'all! 35 years,

going strong!

That's right! You know it,
salt-n-pepa!

- Oh my god!

Oh my god! Thank you.

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