| The Best of Salt 'n Pepa | |
| Type: | greatest |
| Artist: | Salt-N-Pepa |
| Cover: | The Best of Salt-N-Pepa album cover.jpg |
| Released: | November 15, 1999 |
| Recorded: | 1985–1999 |
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| Length: | 56.14 |
| Label: | London |
| Prev Title: | Brand New |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection |
| Next Year: | 2008 |
The Best of Salt 'n Pepa is a greatest hits album by American hip hop trio Salt-N-Pepa, released in November 1999. The album featured tracks from their five studio albums, Hot, Cool & Vicious, A Salt with a Deadly Pepa, Blacks' Magic, Very Necessary and Brand New. A remixed version of their 1998 song "The Brick Track Versus Gitty Up", "Gitty Up" was released as a single and charted in the top 20 in Australia and New Zealand in 2000.[1]
AllMusic rated the album 4 out of 5 stars. Reviewer Steve Huey described it as "an excellent 15-track overview of the groundbreaking female rap group's career", featuring all their major hits from their early days to their platinum success in the '90s. He noted the inclusion of alternate mixes such as the video version of "Whatta Man" and two different versions of "Push It," but there are no glaring omissions or substitutions. It might have been nice if the tracks were ordered chronologically, so that the group's development from cover-happy dance-rappers to sexy crossover hit makers could be traced more readily. But their assertive self-confidence and underlying feminism hold everything together, and the best singles here rank as influential hip-hop classics."[2]