Cheryl Salt James

A Second Circuit judge suggested the ruling that shut down Salt-N-Pepa's masters case "was incorrect." Three days later, Cheryl "Salt" James released Salty N Lit on her own label.

Leon Bridges and Jungle, Tinashe's Popstar, Tank's EXPERIENCE, Tee Grizzley's They Forgot and Jae Stephens' debut lead a heavy Friday for hip-hop, R&B and soul.

Cheryl "Salt" James releases her debut solo album on September 25 through a label she owns outright. The tracklist, the title, and the four albums she still cannot stream explain what a debut means forty years in.

Copyright law hands every artist one chance to cancel a deal they signed decades ago. Here is the calendar, the trapdoor, and the fight over how much of the world comes back with it.

Salt's new "Overcomers" video with Erica Campbell is warm, grown, and quietly defiant. The context nobody is reporting: a federal court says she never owned a single Salt-N-Pepa master, and she is building a new catalog anyway.

Cheryl "Salt" James teams up with gospel icon Erica Campbell for "Overcomers," a warm, soulful summer anthem providing a blueprint for personal reinvention, faith, and mid-life transition.