Roxanne Shante's career took off immediately after answering U.T.F.O.'s gargantuan hit "Roxanne Roxanne" the year before. Producer Hurby Luv Bug had a similar idea for his new group Super Nature, a duo of young ladies that he was grooming to be rappers, named after one of his favorite songs by Cerrone.
That idea, "The Show Stoppa" (an answer to Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick's "The Show") got Hip-Hop's attention.
"I originally wanted to answer another record before 'The Show,' and I can’t remember what it was," he told ROCK THE BELLS. "I couldn’t find any girls. There weren’t many girls who rapped and I didn’t know any, so I had to make them! Marley will tell you that Shanté wasn’t a rapper, she was a girl who rhymed because she could, but that’s not what she tried to be. It was the same with Salt-N-Pepa."
Producer Ron Lawrence, who is a friend and musical associate of Hurby's, explained to ROCK THE BELLS that he always wanted to put a female rap group together. "Hurby was determined to create a female Rap group, and then he met Salt and Pepa, who he worked with at Sears, and that was it."