"The Way That I Love You" singer Ashanti admitted that favorite act to appear on "Yo! MTV Raps" was Salt-N-Pepa.

"Some of my favorite memories from 'Yo! MTV Raps' would have to be Fab 5 Freddy with his hat and his glasses," she recalled. "He always kept it very classy and sassy and 'hood, all at the same time. Some of my favorite female rappers from the 'Yo!' era ... YoYo, definitely. Salt-N-Pepa. I think Salt-N-Pepa, definitely are always gonna be relevant, 'cause they were the first ...They were sexy and still kinda approachable. Not raunchy, and they just kept it real from the early stages. Everyone had the Salt-N-Pepa haircut. I was too young for it, but a lot of my cousins were rockin' it. 'Push It' was phenomenal. Still is. Still rocks in the club!" [MTV NEWS]

Ashanti's 27th birthday bash at Cafe Durpri certainly proved that she's a fan of the female hip-hop group.

Fresh off two back-to-back music video premieres, Lupe Fiasco dropped a bombshell. Lupe claimed that he is 85% sure that his next album will be his last.

I don't want to say I'm 100 percent sure, like, 'Yeah, this is it.' But 85 percent," he revealed. "That 15 percent is the X factor. That could be bills. Like, 'Lupe, you got to pay the bills.' 'Oh, man, I got to put out another album.' "

Fiasco says that the wear and tear of the music industry has taken its toll on him, physically and mentally. But he insists that he hasn't lost the passion for making music, just for the business of putting it out. [READ MORE AT MTV.COM]

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