Salt-N-Pepa s DJ Spinderella awkwardly reunited with her estranged bandmates on Friday as the trio were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Real,
DJ Spinderella’s recent claims, telling the co-hosts, “perception is not reality.”
In a series of tweets last week, DJ Spinderella, a former member of Salt-N-Pepa, aired out her frustrations with the recent
Lifetime
Cheryl “Salt” James and
Sandra “Pepa” Denton, but Spinderella was seemingly left in the dark when it came to any creative input for the project. Now, Salt and Pepa are speaking out on their perspective.
The duo sat down with the ladies of
The Real that airs Wednesday and opened up about those tweets. Salt explained, “I reached out to Spinderella; I feel like this is very unfortunate…we’ve come to a crossroads where we have decided to agree to disagree. I definitely am open and Pepa’s open. We’ve talked about it and our hearts are open, have always been open to Spinderella.”
By Victor Omondi
Former DJ to Salt-N-Pepa Spinderela says she was very disappointed after being “wrongfully excluded” from taking part in Lifetime’s new biopic, featuring one of the most celebrated female rap groups in the history of hip-hop.
“Words cannot fully express my disappointment when I learned a decision was made to move forward with a Lifetime biopic that wrongfully excluded me from every aspect of development and production … all the while using my image throughout, given that I played an integral role in the group’s story and success,” the 49-year-old DJ tweeted Friday.
“Salt-N-Pepa” is a Lifetime movie that dramatizes the life and activities of the rap group. It premiered this past Saturday. In the movie, Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton, acted by G.G. Townson and Laila Odom respectively, record a piece for a colleague’s class project, propelling them to win a Grammy Award, a development that brought a transformation to the genr
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Fans rip Salt-N-Pepa for leaving Spinderella out of Lifetime biopic
DJ Spinderella at Soundset Music Festival (Photo credit: Nagashia Jackson)
The morning after iconic DJ Spinderella ripped into former bandmates for leaving her out of the Lifetime channel’s premiere of the “Salt-N-Pepa” biopic, social media members joined the chorus of disenchantment with the duo.
The animus between Spinderella and Salt-N-Pepa was exacerbated when the pioneering female spinmaster was pretty much omitted from the biopic. One Twitter user actually noted that fans learned more about the career of Martin Lawrence than Spinderella in “Salt-N-Pepa.”
Spinderella, 49, whose real name is Deidra Muriel Roper, poured out the contents of her soul in a series of heartwrenching tweets on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021, before the movie premiered.