Digital Media (30th anniversary edition)

Very Necessary

Album by Salt‐N‐Pepa

Released 18 October 1993

Tracklist

1
Groove Me
4:23
4.0 ★
2
No One Does It Better
3:54
5.0 ★
3
Somebody’s Gettin’ on My Nerves
3:57
3.0 ★
4
Whatta Man
feat. En Vogue
5:08
5.0 ★
5
None of Your Business
3:33
5.0 ★
6
Step
3:11
3.6 ★
7
Shoop
4:08
4.0 ★
8
Heaven or Hell
4:44
3.0 ★
9
Big Shot
3:50
4.0 ★
10
Sexy Noises Turn Me On
3:57
4.0 ★
11
Somma Time Man
3:26
3.0 ★
12
Break of Dawn
3:46
4.0 ★
13
I’ve Got AIDS
3:18
3.0 ★
14
Emphatically No
3:26
15
Whatta Man (video remix)
feat. En Vogue
4:29
3.0 ★
16
Whatta Man (Golden Girls mix)
feat. En Vogue
5:12
17
Whatta Man (12" Danny D mix)
feat. En Vogue
6:12
18
None of Your Business (Perfecto mix)
3:24
19
Shoop (Danny D's R'n'b mix)
3:52
20
Shoop (Guru's mix)
3:51
21
Shoop (a cappella)
1:12
22
Shoop (instrumental)
4:08
23
Shoop (Ben Liebrand European mix)
Salt‐N‐Pepa & Ben Liebrand
3:59
24
Heaven 'n Hell (Carron Hall mix)
4:19
25
Let's Talk About AIDS (PSA)
Salt‐N‐Pepa & Ben Liebrand
3:30
26
I Am the Body Beautiful
4:53

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Release credits

3 feet
background vocals [4]
Al Machera
mix [1-10, 12-14, 16-17, 19-22], producer [24], recording [1-10, 12-14, 19-22], remixer [7, 15, 24], vocal [3]
Alton "Wokie" Stewart
background vocals [2]
Andre DeBourg
mix [2, 4, 12, 17], recording [2, 4, 6, 12]
Anthony "Sharkee" Williams
additional [5], vocal [3]
Avon Marshall
background vocals [2], keyboard [2]
Ben Liebrand
additional [23, 25], remixer [16, 23, 25]
Bernadette Cooper
producer [26]
Chris Irish
assistant [9]
Cleon "Eva" Earle
vocal [10]
D Mob
producer [17], remixer [17, 19]
DJ Wynn
mix [11], producer [11]
Dae Bennett
mix [11], recording [11]
Dave Kowalski
assistant [11]
Day Ta Day
background vocals [2]
Deidre Roper
background vocals [6], producer [6]
En Vogue
background vocals [4], performer [15], vocal [4]
Futuristic Prophet
vocal [1]
Guru
additional [20], remixer [20]
Harold Edgar
keyboard [11]
Hurby Azor
executive [1-12, 19-22], mix [1-6, 8-9], producer [1-5, 9, 15-17, 24-25], remixer [15], vocal [3]
Jeremy Allom
task [19]
Joyce Martin
vocal [1, 7, 10, 19-21]
Julia Brereton
background vocals [5]
Kathy Santiago
spoken vocals [13]
Keith Jordan
spoken vocals [13]
Khadejia Bass
background vocals [5], vocal arranger [4]
Kieran Walsh
task [20]
Kimiko Whittaker
vocal arranger [4]
Mack Robinson
assistant [1]
Mario Lozano
spoken vocals [13]
Mark Sparks
producer [7, 12, 14, 19-23]
Mecko Whip
background vocals [2, 5, 9], vocal [3]
Motif
background vocals [2]
Nate
vocal [7]
Otwane Roberts
vocal [7, 19-21]
Pepa
co [19-23], mix [14]
Perfecto
remixer [18]
Salt
additional [7], co [12, 14], executive [13], mix [7, 10, 12-14, 19-22], producer [7, 10, 19-23, 26]
Salt‐N‐Pepa
executive [10-12, 14]
Sandra Denton
co [7, 10]
Steve Azor
background vocals [9], co [3, 9], producer [8, 24]
Styowlz
background vocals [8], vocal [1]
The Invincibles
producer [25]
The Mau-Mau Clan Overlords
background vocals [9]
Tommy "DJ Grand" Shannon
co [6]
Vaughn Sessions
additional [8, 19-22], assistant [1-2, 5-7, 9, 12]
WEATOC, Inc.
producer [13]
Wilfred "Omega" Hilton
background vocals [8]

Issues

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(Combined release view)
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Very Necessary
CD
18 October 1993
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CD
1993
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CD
1993
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Very Necessary
CD
1993
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Very Necessary
CD
1993
V
Very Necessary
Digital Media
2003
V
Very Necessary
Digital Media (30th anniversary edition)
13 October 2023
V
Very Necessary
2x CD (30th Anniversary edition)
20 October 2023
V
Very Necessary
CD (AU PolyGram marketed)