Legends, icons, trailblazers, pioneers, innovators and trendsetters are just a few words often used to describe this group. From Grammys to MTV Video Awards, they have won them all. Whether it’s the top of the charts or on stages at sold out coliseums across the country, they have done it all. They are Grammy Award winning group, Salt-N-Pepa, which consists of Cheryl James and Sandy Denton (“Salt” and “Pepa”, respectively), and Deidre “Dee Dee” Roper (DJ Spinderella).
As the first ever female rap crew, Salt-N-Pepa, broke barriers and opened doors wide open that were once closed to women in hip-hop. They gave women a voice in a male dominated industry and transformed the way the music world saw women forever. With the hit songs “Push It,” “Tramp,”"Shake Your Thang,” “Shoop” and “Whatta Man,” Salt-N-Pepa would defy everyone’s expectations and catapult hip-hop to new levels
As the New Year approaches, Salt-N-Pepa have commissioned some of their closest friends and some of hip-hop’s greatest artists to join forces with them for the 2011 installment of Salt-N-Pepa’s “Legends of Hip-Hop Tour.” The VH1 reality show, “The Salt-N-Pepa Show,” officially reunited the ladies and made them realize that people really wanted to see them together again. After that, they decided to settle their differences and make this tour and several new ventures happen. Salt-N-Pepa’s “Legends of Hip-Hop Tour” is the first of many for them.
Artists who will be coming together with Salt-N-Pepa on stages across the country include Kurtis Blow, Doug E. Fresh, Whodini, Kool Moe Dee, Slick Rick, MC Lyte, Rob Base, Naughty By Nature and Biz Markie. The tour kicks off February 4th in Cleveland, OH at the Wolstein Center. Each city on the tour will have different artist line-ups. Select cities on the tour are on sale now. For more information on tickets and artists log onto, http://www.ticketmaster.com/, http://www.snplegendsofhiphop.com/ or http://www.saltnpepa.net/.
Salt-N-Pepa’s Legends of Hip-Hop Tour dates are as follows:
February 4th Cleveland Wolstein Center
February 5th Buffalo, TX Shea’s PAC
February 11th Miami, FL James L. Knight Center
February 12th New Orleans Lakefront Arena
February 13th Kansas City Municipal Auditorium
February 18th Philadelphia Liacouras Center
February 19th Baltimore 1st Mariner Arena
February 20th Newark PAC
February 25th Jacksonville, FL Coliseum
February 26th Washington, DC Constitution Hall
March 4th Columbia, SC Township Auditorium
March 5th Baton Rouge, LA Riverside Centroplex
March 11th Norfolk, VA Constant Conv. Ctr
March 12th St. Louis Chaifetz Arena
March 13th Memphis DeSoto Civic Center
March 18th Nashville Municipal Auditorium
March 19th Chicago Arie Crown Theater
March 25th Richmond, VA Coliseum
March 26th Dallas, TX Dallas Convention Center
April 2nd Atlanta Civic Center
*Cities and Dates are subject to change without notice.