Hot, Cool & Vicious
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Hot, Cool, & Vicious is the debut album by rap act Salt-N-Pepa
released by Next Plateau Records
on December 8, 1986. It was one of the first albums to be released by an all-female rap group, and also became the first album by a female rap act to attain gold and platinum status in America.
The album features the songs "The Showstopper" and "I'll Take Your Man", recorded and released prior to the full album's release. It also includes R&B radio favorites "Tramp" and "My Mic Sound Nice", but it was with the dance-rap single "Push It" (US #19, UK #2) that the album was propelled to gold status, then platinum status in America. The single itself was also certified platinum. In 1998, "Hot, Cool, & Vicious" was listed in The Source's
100 Best Rap Albums. According to Salt and Pepa, they provided some additional uncredited lyrics to the album.
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl "Salt" Renee James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, and Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, was one of the first all-female rap crews....
released by Next Plateau Records
Next Plateau Records
Next Plateau Entertainment is an American record label, which currently operates in association and under with Universal Republic Records.-Background:1980’s...
on December 8, 1986. It was one of the first albums to be released by an all-female rap group, and also became the first album by a female rap act to attain gold and platinum status in America.
The album features the songs "The Showstopper" and "I'll Take Your Man", recorded and released prior to the full album's release. It also includes R&B radio favorites "Tramp" and "My Mic Sound Nice", but it was with the dance-rap single "Push It" (US #19, UK #2) that the album was propelled to gold status, then platinum status in America. The single itself was also certified platinum. In 1998, "Hot, Cool, & Vicious" was listed in The Source's
The Source (magazine)
The Source is a United States-based, monthly full-color magazine covering hip-hop music, politics, and culture, founded in 1988. It is the world's second longest running rap periodical, behind United Kingdom-based publication Hip Hop Connection. The Source was founded as a newsletter in 1988...
100 Best Rap Albums. According to Salt and Pepa, they provided some additional uncredited lyrics to the album.
Track listing
- "Push ItPush It (Salt-N-Pepa song)"Push It" is a song by the group Salt-N-Pepa, released as a single in 1986. It peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987 and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA...
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) – 4:26 - "Beauty and the Beat" (Azor) – 4:39
- "Tramp" (Lowell FulsonLowell FulsonLowell Fulson was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. Fulson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for business reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom...
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, Azor) – 3:30 - "I'll Take Your Man" (Clinton, Collins, Worrell, Azor) – 6:22
- "It's Alright" (Azor) – 3:15
- "Chick on the Side" (Remix) (Anita PointerAnita PointerAnita Pointer is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter and a member of The Pointer Sisters.-Biography:...
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, David Rubinson, Azor) – 4:54 - "I Desire" (Azor, N. Wilson) – 3:16
- "The Show Stoppa (Is Stupid Fresh )" (Azor) – 6:22
- "My Mic Sound Nice" (Azor) – 4:52