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Salt from Salt-N-Pepa Reflects on Legacy, and Why Rap Needs to Stop Pushing Artists Aside · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: What's up y'all? See your girl Salt from Salt and
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  Speaker 1: Pepper and I'm kicking it with ball alert to push.
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  Speaker 2: Up in the robbery with a Robbert and you know
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  Speaker 2: b T and you crush you do like me? Mental
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  Speaker 2: health chat talking to me? Somebody got you fed up?
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  Speaker 2: the A turn us up while you went traffic slange.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the greatest shown earth. Yeah it's the bottle alert. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's the bottle alert. Yeah, it's a bottle of alert.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the greatest shown nerve yet. It's the bottle alert.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it's the battle alert. Yeah it's the battle alert.
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  Speaker 3: Ball alert. Bt ones is an honor man song on
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  Speaker 3: Salt Pepper in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing, y'all?
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  Speaker 1: I'm great.
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  Speaker 3: Would you like some water? Chilled room temp? Sure y'all
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  Speaker 3: got a TC gets the water now, sure it flies in.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing today?
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  Speaker 1: I'm well. I'm blessed and highly favored for real, for real.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: How many years are you in right though? Oh lord,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like forty years in the business. Yes, that is.
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  Speaker 1: I was there from the from the beginning when they
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  Speaker 1: grew out the concrete.
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  Speaker 3: I was we appreciate your contributions to the culture because,
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  Speaker 3: you know, without you and you know, in the group.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I don't know if we would have had
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  Speaker 3: other female groups to follow. They had to see something,
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  Speaker 3: you know, So it was a lot of solo artists,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like you were one of You guys
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  Speaker 3: were one of the most major groups that came through
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  Speaker 3: that that you guys dance. Yeah, it was like a
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  Speaker 3: party every time y'all dropped the song.
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  Speaker 1: We came out and did that crossover things like overseas.
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  Speaker 1: It was fun, man, you know, selling millions of records
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  Speaker 1: out the gate. I think we were one of the
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  Speaker 1: first ones to really like introduce women in hip hop
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  Speaker 1: to the planet. The most part won all the awards.
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  Speaker 1: I think they ran out they ain't got no more. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: got awards?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, what keeps you excited to continue to do? You know,
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  Speaker 3: press because I don't think you have to do this
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  Speaker 3: if you don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually, I'm promoting an independent project, right God, That's
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  Speaker 1: why I'm outside. Okay, it's called Salty and Lit. It's
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  Speaker 1: me solo, not a solo artist, just a project, and
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  Speaker 1: it's really catering to my generation gen X OL the millennials.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to get the kids involved. I ain't
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  Speaker 1: on ay algorithm. You know, there's a you in your
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  Speaker 1: own algorithm. I want my own algorithm. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: whole set of grown folks that's listening to music and
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  Speaker 1: looking for music that are very excited about legacy artists
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  Speaker 1: not aging out and feeling like we're too old to
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  Speaker 1: do what we do. This is what we do and
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  Speaker 1: making good music that they can listen to. I get
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  Speaker 1: all the comments like, oh my god, this is something
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  Speaker 1: I can listen to with my kids, with my grandkids.
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  Speaker 1: It's a niche that's being ignored. And they got money.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, no they don't.
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  Speaker 1: The only ones got money.
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  Speaker 3: The only one got going down there that.
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  Speaker 1: Age, you getting a little young, the benefit money. I
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  Speaker 1: ain't catering to these kids. Know if they find me
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  Speaker 1: and they like it straight, but that's not my focus.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean now that you're still hungry though,
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  Speaker 4: and you're still putting out albums because it's great to
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  Speaker 4: see because you know a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 4: artists and like our I guess community, people feel like
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  Speaker 4: when they reach a certain age, they got to retire.
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  Speaker 4: Oh they can't put out anymore.
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  Speaker 5: But other genres they don't and other genres, this hip
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  Speaker 5: hop is the only genre that they age out, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and they don't do that overseas, Like overseas, any artists
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  Speaker 5: don't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Hip Hop a legend is a legend.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: They don't be like this. It's better now, it's better now,
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  Speaker 1: it's getting it is getting better, because that's stupid, like
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  Speaker 1: it has been like like a, uh was Aretha Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: It has been was you know, people that did great
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  Speaker 1: things has been only hip hop has been, which is
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  Speaker 1: so disrespectful to the architects.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Na's been putting out music. I'm just discovering he on
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  Speaker 1: like his twelfth album. You know, he never stopped because
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  Speaker 1: he's a real artist. So I'm like, I got something
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  Speaker 1: to say. I feel like there's people that want to
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  Speaker 1: hear it. I'm just gonna do what I do. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not trying to get put on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm on you know, are you forty years in?
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  Speaker 1: That's why I actually like, how long have you been
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  Speaker 1: knowing this?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: A long time. I enjoy creating. Now you on ball alert,
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  Speaker 3: It's time to get a little ratchet. It's time for
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  Speaker 3: you got me if what's the last time you got
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  Speaker 3: pissed off or triggered by somebody or something.
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  Speaker 1: I have been working so hard on getting the stress
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  Speaker 1: out of my life, you know what I mean. Like
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  Speaker 1: that's something that you learned older. Like there's people around
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  Speaker 1: you that's stressing you out that don't need to be there.
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  Speaker 1: I love you, I love you from afar so the
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  Speaker 1: last I got. It's all I swear. I have no
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  Speaker 1: hard time remember.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, So you're doing a good job of keeping the
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  Speaker 3: boundaries up journey. That's good, that's great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good with a lot of people that I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: good with when I was in the wrong. God showed
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  Speaker 1: me and showed me how to make amends and be
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  Speaker 1: accountable for my own stuff. I've learned how to communicate better.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay, you know what I mean. I know you
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  Speaker 1: had it the next one, Yes, very happy fifty three years.
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised you don't got no nixt memorabilia.
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  Speaker 1: I had mixed crazy I had yesterday. Y'all got pissed
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  Speaker 1: off sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: When our socials ain't on point, because you know, we
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  Speaker 3: make the bulk of our money social media, and we're
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  Speaker 3: also on the radio, so we rely on our social
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  Speaker 3: media to dictate a lot of the things that we're
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  Speaker 3: doing on radio and here. So if the internet legs, oh,
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  Speaker 3: i'm a i'm a screwed those good question, cause I
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  Speaker 3: got yourself was last night Because I hate.
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  Speaker 4: When people put the negative energy and whatever they problems
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  Speaker 4: they got and they try to put it on you,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Like, this ain't the time to talk about this.
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  Speaker 3: She also smokes hookah and if they take too long,
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  Speaker 3: he gets really aggy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you ain't have to tell the world, tell the
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  Speaker 4: word that you're remembering.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing business with somebody who's actually not in to
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  Speaker 1: make the business go smooth. He's in it to disrupt
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  Speaker 1: the business, right and to confuse things. But the devil
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  Speaker 1: is a lie. So y'all made me remember the last
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  Speaker 1: time I got pissed off was that somebody I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: business with, Okay, and it's not going smooth. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people like I could see y'all got camaraderie. I could tell,
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  Speaker 1: I could tell, I could feel the vibes.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all got a goal, y'all trying to accomplish that's the focus.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all doing it together. But when you in with business
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  Speaker 1: with somebody that's trying to disrupt the business for no
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  Speaker 1: reason for attention or whatever, that aggravates you said that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, it's related to business, not for sure. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well listen and curse. Oh that's good. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. We're still pussing phrase bait me. I'm cussing,
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  Speaker 1: don't you.
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  Speaker 5: Know?
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  Speaker 1: Whatever? Whatever y'all gotta do.
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  Speaker 3: Well miss miss miss Salt. You are necessary to the culture.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate your contributions, everything that you brought you the group,
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  Speaker 3: everything that you stand for. We appreciate you. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: for spending some time with us.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate you. On ball Alert