Hot, Cool, & Vicious is the debut studio album by American hip hop girl group Salt-N-Pepa. Released by Next Plateau Records on December 1, 1986, it was one of the first albums to be released by an all-female rap group. Hot, Cool, & Vicious also became the first album by a female rap group act to attain gold and platinum status in the United States.
Release
The album features the songs "The Showstopper" and "I'll Take Your Man", recorded and released prior to the full album's release. It also includes R&B radio favorites "Tramp" and "My Mic Sound Nice", but it was after the 1987 addition of the single "Push It" (US #19, UK #2), along with the replacement of two other tracks with remixed versions, that the album was propelled to gold, then platinum status in the US. The single itself was also certified platinum.{[fact|date=May 2020}}
The NME placed Hot, Cool & Vicious on their 18th, on their best releases of the year in 1987.[3] The single "Saturday Night" was also listed at number 28 on their list of Top 50 tracks of the year.[3]
"Push It (Remix)" was not part of the original track listing of the 1986 release of Hot, Cool & Vicious, which also included the original unedited and unremixed versions of "Tramp" and "Chick on the Side". The original version of "Push It" was recorded in 1987 and added to later pressings of the album.
^"Top Black Albums"(PDF). Billboard. Vol. 100, no. 52. December 24, 1988. p. Y-24. ISSN0006-2510. Retrieved December 22, 2019 – via American Radio History.
