Salt-N-Pepa Biopic on LifeTime

 

The 80’s and 90’s female Hip-Hop duo,Salt-N-Pepa have their biopic on LifeTime and it seem to be getting a lot of reviews,

According to NPR TV critic, Eric Deggans; Before we talk about what Lifetime’s movie “Salt-N-Pepa” is, let’s spend a moment on what it is not. It is not a prestige project filled with big names destined to become a darling of highbrow critics. But it is a scrappy, fun, emotional look at a group that challenged the male-centered rap world and sold more than 15 million records powered by some of the hippest tunes in rap history.

The film drops all kinds of cool tidbits. Early on, they worked in one of the most star-studded Sears call centers of all time. Comic Martin Lawrence and rap duo Kid ‘n Play answered phones there, too, before they got famous. Neither Salt nor Pepa were all that excited about rapping until Hurby pushed them. And when Pepa caught Hurby cheating on Salt in a club, he called her the worst insult he could think of – ghetto.
Like any good origin story, Lifetime’s Salt-N-Pepa” soars highest when documenting early success. In the mid-’80s, Cheryl Salt James was dating an aspiring producer, Hurby Luv Bug Azor, who had a million-dollar idea. Back in the day, up-and-coming rap acts got attention by cutting diss tracks – catchy singles that insulted big stars. But when Salt got a friend who worked with her at Sears to rap on Hurby’s diss track, Sandra Pepa Denton wasn’t so sure.

Executive produced by Queen Latifah and directed by Mario Van Peebles, the film is a bit more ambitious and authentic than many biopics. That this movie is coming from female-centered cable channel Lifetime instead of an outlet focused on Black viewers like BET, TV One or OWN is important. It shows how essential Black viewers, especially Black women, have become to traditional cable channels.

Best of all, the film deploys classic elements of all Lifetime movies – female friendships found, lost and found again, abusive, cheating men shown the door. But they’re in service of a different story – to give props to a legendary group whose history should have been told like this long before now.

The new movie, Salt-N-Pepa, is about one of the first and most successful all-female rap groups. The film was executive produced by Queen Latifah and directed by Mario Van Peebles.

Sait-N-Pepa had hits like “Push it”,”Let’s Talk About Sex,” their collaboration with En Vogue and “Whatta Man,”

This is a really good review. Will you be watching?

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