Salt-N-Pepa

Released: October 12, 1993

Songwriter: David Wynn Cheryl “Salt” James Darren Callis

Producer: David Wynn

Somebody's knockin' at my door
Yo, yo
Who is it?
Somebody's ringin' my bell
Open the door
I'm comin'
Somebody's knockin' at my door
Let me in please
Damn
Somebody's ringin' my bell
Come on baby

It's your man, driving to my house every day
Tryin' to get a play but I say, "No way"
Keep him on a leash cause he's a D O G
Hot diggity dog comin' for my coochie
Boom bam boom, knock, knock, knock
Wakin' up my moms, wakin' up my pops, somebody call the cops
And get this fool off my stoop, see
Can you believe that your man is a groupie?
Not, not dedicated, ought to get him spaded
Cut the nuts and get his shots upgraded
So what ya feed him at home? It must be bones
Give him some meat so he can leave me alone
He's a somma time man, so what ya gonna do?
Like Eddie Murphy said, "Yes, your man, too"

[Hook x2]
He's a somma time man, some of hers, some of mine
He's a somma time man, get you some of the time
He's a somma time man, some of yours, some of mine
He's a somma time man all year 'round

Now here's a description of the nigga that I'm dissin'
If your man fits this category then dismiss him
You gotta dig him, get rid of him, have no pity for him
Send him on his way, yea, girl, and forget about him
He's got a problem, and it's similar to drugs
Not weed, Cocaine, crack or dud, it's an erection, huh
He's a mission, a sexual transition
Addiction, affliction, so girls, sign the petition
He's a man that likes easy pickin'
Thinkin' that every girl is like easy stickin'
You gotta realize that girls are not store-bought
Like Newports, a pack of cigarettes smoked to the butt
So now I know that what I know, I know is now true
You're being true to lovin' a brother that's not with you
You wanna bootie smack from the back
But if you come like that you might catch a diggum smack
He's a somma time man

Yo, this is dedicated to all you somma time fools
And you know who you are
Sometimes you will, sometimes you won't
Now you see them, yo, now you don't
1993, you know what I'm sayin'?
It's time to be true to the paid
Cause this AIDS thing's goin' crazy
So don't you, ain't throw it out there, baby

[Chorus x2]

He's a somma time man, a summer, somma time
Especially when it's hot, sex is always on his mind
Lookin', dippin' and dodgin' short skirts, no stockings
No matter who it is, long as he's boot knockin'
No protection buddy always wants to give affection
Three girls, same streets but indifferent section
From Lonnie, Donni, all the way to Vonni
Runnin' through girls like it's musical punani
So come one, come all, he'll try to write you off
With that greater than Tibet-time free fall
Talkin' that same old same lame, yea, yea
Yiggity yack yack, brother talkin' that bullcrap
But every time he parts his lips
It's funny because I always seem to smell his shit
From June, July, August, September
All year-round, so girls, just remember

[Chrorus x2]

Salt-N-Pepa is arguably the most successful female rap group of all time. The group began with Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton meeting while studying to be nurses. James got Denton a job at a Sears department store, where her boyfriend Hurby “Luv Bug” Azor also worked. Azor was studying music production and he asked them to help on a school project, an answer record to Doug E. Fresh’s “The Show” they named “The Showstopper” – recorded in 1985 under the name Supernature.

After the legendary Queens DJ Marley Marl played “The Showstopper” on his radio show, the group began getting booked for shows. One lyric in “The Showstopper” was ‘We the salt and pepper’, and people kept requesting ‘that salt and pepper song’, so they changed their name to Salt-N-Pepa. Deejay Deidra “Spinderella” Ropa was added soon after.

SNP’s debut album Hot, Cool, & Vicious originally spawned a minor hit in the UK with “My Mike Sounds Nice” in early 1987. But it was the re-release of a remix of “Push It”, originally a quickly-thrown together b-side for their fall ‘87 single “Tramp”, that shot the group into international stardom. The song reached the top 10 in eleven countries around the world in 1988.

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