Rapper Pepa of Salt and Pepa Pens Book About Life and Domestic Violence
A new book by Sandy (Pepa) Denton of the rap duo Salt-n-Pepa reveals details about her personal life highlighted by a number violent episodes where she was both the victim and perpetrator.
“Let’s Talk About Pep,” co-written with Karen Hunter, features Denton speaking candidly about her rise from poverty, her hot temper and her string of bad relationships.
The rapper was once married to Naughty by Nature front man Treach (Anthony Criss). She also had a child with Tyran (Tah-Tah) Moore, a rapper accused by 50 Cent of having a role in his 2002 shooting. (Tah-Tah was never charged.)
Her most turbulent experience came from a decade-long romance with a man she calls “Brad.”
During one of their apocalyptic fights, she writes, “I had the hot iron in my hand and he had a handful of my hair. He grabbed the hand with the iron in it and was pushing [it] toward my face. … He ended up pressing that hot iron against my other arm. I heard my flesh sizzling, and the smell was sickening. I started screaming from the pain. He dropped the iron and I turned to run, and his nail swiped across my eyeball and shredded my cornea.” The incident left her with deep scars and an eye patch.
The couple had another brawl at actor Omar Epps’ house, where, she says, “Brad” threw her through a glass coffee table and tried to push her down the stairs.
Pepa, meanwhile, had a violent streak of her own. She tells of one night when she had to check Christopher “Play” Martin of the rap duo Kid ‘n Play.
“Play tried to clown me at the table. … Everyone started laughing. I got up and grabbed him by his collar and dragged him down the whole length of the table, knocking everybody’s food and drink onto the floor. Play never made fun of me again,” writes Pepa.
One rapper who did impress her was Tupac Shakur, whom she met on the set of the “Whatta Man” video. “He was a good guy. I remember him telling me that he had never been in trouble with the law until he got into the music business. [He said,] ‘I ain’t never had a record until I made a record!’”
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