Salt-N-Pepa threw on the multicolored leather jackets from their "Push It" video and brought the crowd at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony to its feet with a romping rendition of their 1987 breakthrough hit."This is for every woman who picked up a mic when they told her she couldn't," Cheryl "Salt" James said Saturday while accepting the musical influence award that made her, Sandra "Pepa" Denton and DJ Spinderella members of the hall.In a rousing speech at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, James brought up their fight to reclaim their master recordings from Universal Music Group."The industry still doesn't want to play fair, Salt-N-Pepa have never been afraid of a fight," James said.They took the stage for a medley of their hits.They opened with "Shoop" then slid into "Let's Talk About Sex" before En Vogue joined them for their joint hit "What a Man." "Push It" pushed the energy up another notch.
Spinderella became the first female DJ to enter the hall."The female rappers had to step to the mic and show that they could go toe to toe with the guys.And Salt, Pepa and Spinderella did it," Missy Elliott said while inducting the trio.Chappell Roan was set to induct Cyndi Lauper. Outkast don't perform, but appear togetherOutkast didn't perform together for the first time since 2016 as some had hoped, but the duo stood together on stage, surrounded by a crew of friends and cohorts as they gave grateful speeches after doing rock-paper-scissors to decide who would go first.Andre 3000 gave a long, rambling funny speech — "I'm freestylin' y'all!" — that ended in tears when he talked about their very beginnings in a basement "dungeon" in Atlanta in the early 1990s.
He choked out the words, "Great things start in little rooms."Andre sat out the performance but Big Boi, wearing shorts and a fur coat, started off an express tour through the Atlanta duo's discography that included Tyler the Creator, JID and Killer Mike.Janelle Moná...