The album sold about 800,000 copies worldwide with roughly 600,000 of those in the US, attaining gold status. A top 20 R&B hit and a minor pop hit were also seen in "Get Up Everybody (Get Up)" and "Twist and Shout" (UK #4), respectively with "Twist and Shout" becoming a major hit in the UK on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #4, and several other European countries. Salt-N-Pepa's next album release, 1988's A Salt with a Deadly Pepa, contained the Top Ten R&B hit and moderate pop hit "Shake Your Thang", featuring the go-go band E.U. The album ultimately sold 1.3 million copies worldwide. It was nominated for a Grammy Award, and the strength of that single catapulted the album to platinum sales in the US with one million sold, making Denton, James, and Roper the first female rap act (group or solo) to go gold or platinum. "Push It" (US #1, UK #2) became a platinum single in the United States, and a hit in several other countries, and was added to subsequent pressings of Hot, Cool & Vicious. But when San Francisco DJ and producer Cameron Paul created a remix to "Push It", the B-side of the "Tramp" single, it gave the group their first major hit. Hot, Cool & Vicious provided some moderate R&B hits with the singles "My Mic Sound Nice", "Tramp", and "Chick On The Side".
Years later, the women would have legal issues with Azor as they accused him of paying unfair royalties. The album was produced by Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor, Salt's boyfriend at the time and also the group's manager. Roper then joined the group as the DJ, replacing DJ Latoya Hanson as Spinderella, and the group's first album Hot, Cool & Vicious was released afterwards in 1986. With the success of Showstopper, the group's name was changed to Salt-N-Pepa (which they had called themselves in the first verse of the song) and they signed to the independent Next Plateau Records to record a full-length album. Their song Lets Talk About Sex was a huge hit. They wore scanty, sexy clothing and were not afraid to talk about sex and their thoughts about men. However, Salt-n-Pepa flipped the script and changed the look of hip-hop.
With lots of concerns about sexist lyrics and video clips that objectified womens bodies in hip hop music, many feminists disliked rap and hip-hop music because of its bad reputation of women. They found power through their sexuality. Salt-n-Pepa made their impact on hip-hop by being the first all women rap group. The independent Pop Art Records gave it an official release, and "The Showstopper" became a modest R&B hit. The finished recording garnered some airplay on a New York City rap radio program. The song utilized a melody from the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. "The Showstopper" was produced by Hurby Azor. Originally calling themselves Super Nature (on their first single), James and Denton debuted in 1985 with the single "The Showstopper", an answer record to Doug E. The group entered pop music at a time when rap music was believed to be a fad and record companies were reluctant to sign rap artists. The group, consisting of Cheryl James ("Salt"), Sandra Denton ("Pepa"), and Deidra Roper ("DJ Spinderella"), was one of the first all-female rap crews. Salt-n-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985.
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