Words matter. These are the best Pepa Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I grew up with park jams. That’s how I knew about rap… The local MCs would grab the mic and start rapping. I just used to be so in awe and fascinated and like, ‘Wow, this is amazing!’ But I would never, ever touch the mic. Heck no.
For girls who want to get their waistline down a little bit and don’t have any weights in the house, they can actually use a broom and put it behind their necks, lap over it and twist and squat. I do all of that if I don’t go to the gym.
We feel we’re setting a trend. Other girl groups watch our style and see how we rap. And there are some male rappers I feel we’ve overthrown.
My kids used to see me crying and depressed all the time, and that can affect kids as well.
Nowadays, everyone has a stylist – we were raw, wearing 8 ball jackets with kente hats and spandex. It’s a quintessential look that everyone loved.
I do like performing ‘I’ll Take Your Man,’ because that was a hard song.
I’ve always said, if you treat yourself like a queen, you’ll attract a king.
When I see a cutie in front at a concert, I say, ‘Ohhh, you’re so cute! What’s your name?’ But I wouldn’t do that in real life.
We’ll be in our 60s performing ‘Push It’ somewhere. Good old ‘Push It.’ I don’t know what it is about that song.
Lack of communication is the key to any successful relationship going wrong.
We’re just not going anywhere. Our songs are here to stay.
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.
A lot of guys don’t get their recognition, all the good men out there.
Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don’t have to do a whole album.
Girls are our biggest fans, I tell you. I mean women; I mean even the big ones. They say things like, ‘You inspired me!’
Don’t waste your time with a good-for-nothing man.
Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, ‘Let’s Talk About AIDS.’ But I was naive about how the virus is contracted – until Magic Johnson came out. I’d stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man’s disease.
We’ve been fortunate. ‘Push It’ will never die.
We’re always going to party and have fun. We’ll always be pushing it and leaving you with something to remember.
I tried snowboarding before, and I suck at it.
If you feel good about yourself, there’s nothing wrong with showing your stuff.
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.
There are good men out there. There are guys who have their priorities straight, who take care of their kids, who respect their mothers.
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 never said we were hard-core or that we didn’t want our music crossing over or being popular.
We had fashion errors that became hits. We were bold with our colors and tights and being very sexy and the assymmetrical hairstyle.
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!’
Be empowered as a female, as a woman. Don’t apologize. Don’t lose yourself in another person’s life.
We brought fashion, fun, and femininity to hip hop.
There was a time when we had a nice little run: Eve, Lil’ Kim, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Remy Ma, Da Brat – it goes on. But what I noticed is that a lot of talented females in hip-hop came out of a male camp.
