Songoftheday 2/5/19: Here I go here I go here I go again (again?), girls what's my weakness? (Men!)...
from the album Very Necessary (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 23
Today's song of the day comes from the female rap group Salt 'N' Pepa, whose previous album Black's Magic had landed the trio three top-40 pop hits with "Expression", "Do You Want Me", and "Let's Talk About Sex". Also, DJ Spinderella, the oft-forgotten third member of the group, got a little moment to shine as a guest rapper on Big Daddy Kane's top-40 pop hit "Very Special" in the fall of 1993. Not too long after that, the three women came back with their fourth studio album Very Necessary, and by then their profile was at its highest. The album would be their sole effort to reach the top ten on the sales chart at #4, while the first single from the record scored the group their first top ten pop hit. "Shoop", written by Cheryl "Salt" James and Sandra "Pepa" Denton, with the former producing the track with Mark Sparks, would be a landmark in their career, with the funky midtempo groove anchoring the record connecting with mainstream pop radio audiences, as the trio rap about the guys that turn them on made their female sexual prowess a thing with both the female and LGBT fans...
"Shoop" became Salt 'N' Pepa's first top ten pop hit in December of 1993. The song spent a week at #3 on the R&B chart in Billboard magazine as well. Internationally, the single went to #2 in Australia, and reached the top-40 in the UK (#13), Iceland (#16), the Netherlands (#19), Switzerland (#23), New Zealand (#31), Belgium (#35), and Sweden (#38).
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Here's the trio performing at the NBA All-Star Weekend in 1994...
in 1994, the single originally went to #29 in the UK; a year later a "Ghetto Lab Remix" re-release of the track surpassed that, climbing to #13...
and lastly, the girls at Woodstock '94...
Up tomorrow: Soul singer requests a word.
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