*Hip-Hop icons Salt-N-Pepa appeared on the special “Road Trip with Tamron to Los Angeles” edition of “Tamron Hall” Tuesday where they dished about their career hits and personal highs and lows.
During the candid conversation, Salt (AKA Cheryl James) revealed the shocking thing she was asked for the sake of her career.
“They [the record labels] do get scared. I was actually – I don’t think I’ve ever said this out loud – but I was asked to have an abortion,” she shared. “I won’t say by who but to your point, you just have to know that it’s something that you’re capable of handling if you want a kid and you want to have a career and it’s definitely harder.”
The hip-hop icon added, “Having my daughter was, besides finding Jesus, the best thing that I’ve ever experienced is my kids. I needed that little baby in my life. She kept me company on the road.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Tamron asked Salt-N-Pepa about their smash hit “Shoop” and Salt said the music video served as a “reinvention” for the group.
“‘Shoop.’ That ‘Shoop’ look. Yes, that was a reinvention for that video for us. I can’t fit that little thing over one boob now, child. I pulled it out of the drawer the other day and it was like this big. I’m like, how the heck did I get in that thing? So we were feeling ourselves. So this is one of our great reinventions.”
Watch Salt-N-Pepa talk about “What a Man” in the clip below:
Salt also opened up about her difficult divorce and self-love journey.
“Love yourself is really cliche but there’s so many levels to learning what that means,” she said.
“I got divorced in 2018 and I haven’t been on a date since,” the star continued. “Isn’t that crazy? But it just dawned on me it’s not just the pampering, the facials, the massage, the vacating the, you know, prayer and meditation and things to keep your stress down but also just giving yourself that internal validation. And not looking outside of you for validation. You have the ability to validate yourself. And also separating yourself from relationships that aren’t good for you,” she explained.
“I think we linger on stuff like way too long, and just part of self-love, I’m discovering, is to put up boundaries around toxic relationships and knowing your value and your worth when it comes. That’s probably why I haven’t had a date because I know my worth.”
Watch her full remarks in the clip below.
