Vintage Videos: Salt-N-Pepa, LL Cool J And The Birth Of Oversized Top Hats In Hip-Hop

And now, let us cast our minds back to 1990. ‘Twas an exciting time in R&B and hip-hop, as both genres were making serious pop chart inroads, as well as doing some serious genre-mating. Two great songs from the Great R&B/Hip-Hop Merger of the Early 90′s are LL Cool J ‘s “Around The Way Girl,” and Salt-N-Pepa ‘s “Expression.” “Around The Way…” was the romantic single from LL’s monstrous Mama Said Knock You Out album