It also features the group’s two highest-charting hits, both of them mildly lewd and entirely joyous and only deepened by Salt-N-Pepa’s hard-fought wisdom, even if you can’t hear a trace of the fight in the songs themselves. “Whatta Man,” a remake of Laura Lyndell’s 1968 Stax soul single, is a delectable summit with powerhouse Oakland girl group En Vogue, who absolutely crush one of the sweetest and coolest and most indestructible hooks mid-’90s pop had to offer, but yeah, no, “Shoop” is the one.
