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“Jump” is the hit debut single by the American Hip hop duo Kris Kross, released on February 6, 1992 – several weeks in advance of their debut studio album Totally Krossed Out. Producer Jermaine Dupri wrote the song after seeing people jumping at a concert he attended:
I watched the crowd. I watched how people were just into jumping … I went home and wrote the song in an hour.
The song had immediate success, with KKBT-FM program director and disc jockey ‘Big John’ Monds telling the LA Times, “‘Jump’ is one of those songs that when people hear it, they instantly love it.” The single quickly achieved international success, topping charts in Switzerland, Australia, and the United States – where it reached #1 faster than any debut single had in over 20 years. In 1992 alone, the song sold over 2 million physical copies.
Renowned music critic Robert Christgau praised the song, calling it, “one of those works of art that makes rock and roll worth living for.” An annual poll of music critics done by the Village Voice ranked the track as the #3 single of the year behind Arrested Development’s “Tennessee” and House Of Pain’s “Jump Around”.
Billboard reported “Jump” was the #3 song of 1992, and the #23 song of the decade.
Jermaine Dupri Joe “The Butcher” Nicolo Alphonso Mizell Berry Gordy Deke Richards Freddie Perren Marshall “Rock” Jones Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner Ralph “Pee Wee” Middlebrooks Gregory “Greg” Webster Clarence “Satch” Satchell Bruce Napier Walter “Junie” Morrison Marvin “Merv” Pierce Roy C. Hammond Louis Freese Lawrence Muggerud Senen Reyes Lowell Fulson Jimmy McCracklin James Brown J.B. Weaver Jr. Anthony Criss Kier Gist Vincent Brown Herb Rooney
I personally know several people on that list, and I was at Ruff House records back then- and I, along with many others at work that day, sang gang background on this song and “warm it up”.
Such a catchy song!
https://genius.com/Kris-kross-jump-lyrics
Wiki says the songwriters are:
Jermaine Dupri Joe “The Butcher” Nicolo Alphonso Mizell Berry Gordy Deke Richards Freddie Perren Marshall “Rock” Jones Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner Ralph “Pee Wee” Middlebrooks Gregory “Greg” Webster Clarence “Satch” Satchell Bruce Napier Walter “Junie” Morrison Marvin “Merv” Pierce Roy C. Hammond Louis Freese Lawrence Muggerud Senen Reyes Lowell Fulson Jimmy McCracklin James Brown J.B. Weaver Jr. Anthony Criss Kier Gist Vincent Brown Herb Rooney
I personally know several people on that list, and I was at Ruff House records back then- and I, along with many others at work that day, sang gang background on this song and “warm it up”.
Wild times.
Awesome!