Oprah is so powerful she can even get a drunk Salt-N-Pepa to go jogging with her at 6 A.M the morning after the Grammys.
In an interview with Rock The Bells, the rap duo revealed that in 1995 the legendary talk show host invited them to do a charity run with her after they won the award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group—the first female hip-hop artists to receive that honor.
“Oprah, that night, [said] ‘Hey girls, I’m running in a marathon in Central Park and I’d like you girls to run in the morning,’” Pepa told the outlet. “And we were like, ‘What time?’ And Oprah was like, ‘Six.’ I was like, ‘Whew. OK.’” While they were excited about the invitation, they were more excited to celebrate this milestone achievement.
“I celebrated so hard that night,” Pepa says. “I was drinking and Salt and I were partying and I was like, ‘Can you get to the Oprah thing? I can’t get to it. I’m hungover.’ We called the manager like, ‘We don’t think we’re going to be able to run!’ and the manager called back and said, ‘Oprah called back and said there will be a car downstairs and you will be in it.’ I sobered the fuck up! Me and Salt was like, ‘I think we better get in that car.’”
Speaking with Oprah wasn’t the only memorable thing that happened to Salt-N-Pepa that night. Salt said, “When we won the Grammy, [2Pac] sent Salt-N-Pepa a cake in the shape of a gun as a congratulations. We were like, ‘What is that about?’ It was just his way. He was always in his own zone.”
Although not quite as memorable as a gun cake or a hungover marathon at dawn, the pair recalled that Tom Hanks also congratulated them on their big win that night.
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