{"id":24362,"date":"2017-10-10T23:49:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T22:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=24362"},"modified":"2017-10-10T23:49:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T22:49:31","slug":"i-love-90s-tour-uk-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/10\/i-love-90s-tour-uk-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"“I LOVE THE 90’S TOUR UK TOUR”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hey old school Hip Hop fans, if you love the 90\u2019s then you\u2019re going to enjoy the \u201cI love 90\u2019s Tour coming to the UK, remember hits like \u201cPush It\u201d, \u201cGangster\u2019s Paradise\u201d and \u201cI wanna Sex You Up\u201d, I thought you\u2019d remember! Well one of their stops will be in Birmingham at the Arena on the 7th October next month!<\/div>\n
\"\"Some of the acts lined up are the likes of Vanilla Ice<\/b>, Color Me Badd<\/b> and Coolio<\/b> to name a few. I was luckily enough to get a hold of Cheryl James<\/b> aka Salt from 90\u2019s iconic girl group \u201cSalt n Pepa\u201d<\/b> and she was more than willing to talk about the tour, Drake and much, much more!\"\"<\/div>\n
\nQ.\u00a0 It’s been long overdue, how excited are you to be performing in the UK after such a long time?<\/b><\/div>\n
A. I\u2019m excited, I don\u2019t even know how long it\u2019s been \u2013 I want to say like 15 years or more since we\u2019ve done a UK run.\u00a0 We miss our fans and we are just happy to be on this tour, you know it\u2019s been extremely successful, it\u2019s been a lot of fun, the crowds are fun, we\u2019ve been selling out, and everyone wants to revisit the \u201890s.\u00a0 So, we\u2019re just happy to bring the \u201990s to the UK!<\/p>\n

Q. What are you most looking forward to in the UK?<\/b><\/div>\n

A. Seeing my UK fans after all these years! You know, reconnecting with them and giving them the Salt N Pepa experience\u2026 We always say, at the beginning of every show, this isn\u2019t a show, this is a \u201cSalt n Pepa and DJ Spinderella experience!\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m excited to bring fans back to a time in their lives.\u00a0 Our fans will come up to us and compliment us on how we shaped their lives, and, you know, we got them through college, or helped them through an abusive relationship, and just taking them back to that fun time in the \u201890s when they loved our music is really incredible.<\/p>\n

Q. \u201cPush It\u201d is a classic, when composing the track in 1986 did you ever imagine it would be such a cult classic, even today?<\/b><\/div>\n

A.You know, no, ironically \u201cPush It\u201d was the B-side of our record \u201cTramp.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cTramp\u201d was the actual single being pushed by the record company, and a DJ just turned \u201cTramp\u201d over and started to play \u201cPush It\u201d and it just sort of took off from there, started getting played on radio stations across the world, really. Pep and I, when we were recording \u201cPush It,\u201d it was actually sort of a rush job and it wasn\u2019t even one of our favorite songs, I\u2019m not even sure if we really liked it that much.\u00a0 You know, it was kind of like a \u201clet\u2019s hurry up and get a B-side for this record.\u201d\u00a0 And, now, to this day it\u2019s the biggest Salt N Pepa song ever, you know, as far as people know about Salt N Pepa, they always think of \u201cPush It\u201d first. So, yeah, I mean the answer is no way no how (laughs)!<\/p>\n

Q. The 90’s Tour started in US last year what response did you get from fans, especially touring with acts like Vanilla Ice, Coolio etc.?<\/b><\/div>\n

A. Well, you know, my first response was \u201cHuh?!\u2026 That\u2019s a strange lineup.\u201d \u00a0I don\u2019t really think I totally got it, but I was willing to be open to try to see what the people felt about it, and the response has just been overwhelming.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been touring for more than a year and we\u2019re already talking about 2018.\u00a0 I never thought that 31 years later we would be touring as vigorously as we are and celebrating the \u201890s the way that we are.\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised, but extremely appreciative that we\u2019re still rocking hard, like we did in the \u201890s.\n<\/div>\n
Q. How did you feel winning the I Am Hip Hop Award at the 2010 BET Awards?<\/b><\/div>\n
A.It was amazing, so amazing.\u00a0 I kind of have an out of body experience with that \u201clegendary icon\u201d status.\u00a0 Personally, when I think of legendary and iconic, I think of people like Aretha Franklin and The Supremes and Stevie Wonder, and, you know, when people use that word and connect it to Salt N Pepa, it\u2019s always a situation where I have to step outside of myself and see it the way other people see it, and say, \u201cYeah, that was pretty iconic, what we did in hip hop as three women.\u201d\u00a0 We brought fashion and femininity back to hip hop and connected to women on a level that no other girls had at that point.\u00a0 They could identify with us and relate to us.\u00a0 We were two roundaway chicks just doing our thing and it ended up being iconic and legendary, so I just appreciate that people see it that way and I get to go down in history as someone people think is an icon and a legend.<\/p>\n

Q. Have either of you ever forgotten your lines on stage?<\/b><\/div>\n

A. Oh yeah, we\u2019ve forgotten our lines! I think I might have been the one that did that the most.\u00a0 I mean I know everybody\u2019s words, but Pep only knows her own, she doesn\u2019t know my words, so we always laugh about that. Like, after all these years you don\u2019t know my lyrics!?\u00a0 And actually I always like her lyrics better than mine for some reason, so every once in a while I will sing her lyrics instead of my lyrics and throw the song off (laughs).\u00a0 But I\u2019ve been way more cognizant of not doing that anymore (laughs).<\/div>\n
\nQ. From today\u2019s music who do you both listen to?<\/b><\/div>\n
A. We have very different taste in music, Pep and I. Pep is real gutta with hers, you know. She\u2019s very current and up to date. She\u2019s trap trap baby, you know, hard core rockas.\u00a0 She\u2019s real street with hers.\u00a0 Me, I\u2019m more Motown, I\u2019m more the classics, more inspirational.\u00a0 If I had to say someone we share I think it\u2019d be Drake. We had a conversation about Drake and I was like, \u201cI\u2019m really impressed, you know, with his depth of emotion, his wordplay and he really just takes me to a different place.\u201d \u00a0So, yeah, I would have to say we agree completely on Drake.<\/p>\n

Q. And finally is Hip Hop dead?
\n<\/b>A. No! Oh, not! Wow, that\u2019s a good question, but my gut, right off the bat, the answer is not. Hip hop is a culture, hip hop is a movement. They\u2019ve been asking us since day one, \u201cWill hip hop last?\u201d\u00a0 And, at first, we really didn\u2019t know.\u00a0 But look at these years later and we\u2019re still celebrating hip hop form the \u201890s the way that they celebrate The Temptations, The Supremes and Motown you know what I mean?\u00a0 I think it\u2019s become too grounded and in the fabric of culture to be dead or even to ever die.<\/div>\n

Salt n Pepa will be performing at the Arena Birmingham on the 7th October.<\/div>\n
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For more information on the Tour;<\/div>\n
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Visit http:\/\/ilovethe90stour.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n
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Thanks to HUSHPR<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey old school Hip Hop fans, if you love the 90\u2019s then you\u2019re going to enjoy the \u201cI love 90\u2019s Tour coming to the UK, remember hits like \u201cPush It\u201d, \u201cGangster\u2019s Paradise\u201d and \u201cI wanna Sex You Up\u201d, I thought you\u2019d remember! Well one of their stops will be in Birmingham at the Arena on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,401,107,55],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-24362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desixpress","category-entertainment","category-music","category-the-surj-kumar-show","tag-i-love-the-90s-tour-uk-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}