Photo: Al Pereira/Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives They weren’t afraid to hit the issues head-onĮven with the success, they continued to grow their reputation and their image, adding a 16-year-old DJ Deidre Roper with the stage name Spinderella. “Pep being the crazy person that she is - she stopped the car in the middle of the boulevard, she jumped out of the car, and she started screaming, ’They’re playing my song! That’s me! That’s me on the radio!’” James recalled.
James and Denton were glued to the radios every weekend - until one day they were driving in Queens down Guy Brewer Boulevard and heard "The Show Stoppa," which James called “one of the most exciting moments of our career” to Rolling Stone. “And promised Hurby that he would play the song.” “Back then, you could only hear hip-hop on the weekends,” James explained to Rolling Stone. “It was very ballsy for two women that nobody knew to do something like that!”Įventually, they recorded it again more professionally at Power Play Studios - and Azor took it to WBLS DJ Marley Marl who had a show World Famous Mr. “That was the best way for us as female rappers to get noticed, which was crazy for us to do because Doug and Slick Rick were the biggest thing ever and ‘The Show’ was the biggest song ever,” James told Vibe. Fresh - by starting with a bold response song, called “The Show Stoppa (Is Stupid Fresh).” At the time, rap was all about battles, so even though they were an all-female group trying to break into a male-dominated industry, they decided to take on some of the most established names - Slick Rick and Doug E.
They went to Azor’s attic and Denton and James recorded their first track in 1985.
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