Very Necessary - Salt-n-Pepa

Salt-N-fourth Pepa's studio album, Very Necessary, was released on October 12, 1993, through Next Plateau Records and London Records. The album yielded four songs, including "Shoop," which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100, "Whatta Man," which featured En Vogue and reached number three, and "None of Your Business," which earned the group their first Grammy Award in the category Best Rap Performance by a Duo or

The album reached number four on the Billboard 200 and was certified five-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), indicating sales of more than five million copies in the US.

Total album sales: 7 million