Women come up to us all the time and give us the most amazing compliments, like, 'Salt-N-Pepa was the soundtrack of my life.' They remind us that we meant so much to them. Sometimes artists don't really grasp that. But when you talk to fans, you get in touch with your legacy.
Fans make you understand it was more than music to them. It was a movement, a voice they felt they didn't have that we expressed for them.
We had fashion errors that became hits. We were bold with our colors and tights and being very sexy and the assymmetrical hairstyle.
Not everyone's role model material, but we do have a sense of responsibility because kids listen more to us than they would their parents.
Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.
The women like us because we're the first real women rappers, and the men like us because we're strong. We're not some soft little rappers with soft little voices. The men who see us end up going, 'Hey! They're kickin' it!'
If I'm on a date, I don't want to talk business right away. Let it feel like a date. I don't want to talk about my job right then.
Be empowered as a female, as a woman. Don't apologize. Don't lose yourself in another person's life.
We've been in the game for so long, it's great to be honored for our contributions to the game of hip-hop and be told that we're not forgotten about, that our music is timeless.
We all have little sisters and cousins who look up to us, and we see what they go through. So we have to be an example. A lot of artists come into this business and they don't see things that way. But as you get older - and now that we also have children - your conscience starts working on you.