Blacks’ Magic by Salt n Pepa

Blacks' Magic, Salt-N-Pepa's third album, came out on Next Plateau and London Records on March 19, 1990, and it finds Salt and Pepa, the New York City pair at the heart of the group, sounding loose and sure of themselves. The record is funky and funny, built on bouncing beats and sharp, back-and-forth rhymes that sound like a conversation with the whole room.

The singles kept coming, six of them: "Expression", "I Don't Know" with Kid N' Play, "Independent", "Do You Want Me", "You Showed Me" and the big one, "Let's Talk About Sex", which went to 13 in the US and 2 in the UK and pushed the talk of the title right onto pop radio. The album reached 38 on the Billboard 200 and 15 on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart, went platinum, and set the table for the even bigger Very Necessary.

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