Jump (Kris Kross song)

Infobox Single
Name = Jump

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Artist = Kris Kross
from Album = Totally Krossed Out
Released = 1992
Format = 7" single
12" maxi
CD single
CD maxi
Recorded = 1991
Genre = Hip hop, Pop rap
Length = 3:17
Label = So So Def Recordings
Ruffhouse Records
Writer = Anthony "Treach" Ciss
Producer = Jermaine Dupri
Last single =
This single = "Jump" (1992)
Next single = "Warm It Up" (1992)

"Jump" is a 1992 song by the hip hop duo Kris Kross. It was released as a single in late 1992 from their album "Totally Krossed Out". It achieved a great success in many countries where it topped the charts, including Australia, Switzerland and U.S.

History

Kris Kross's members were only 12 and 13 years old when their song became a hit. Written by Treach of Naughty By Nature, and produced by Jermaine Dupri, "Jump" was the fastest selling single in fifteen years and stayed on top of the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks. Kris Kross's debut album "Totally Krossed Out", which features "Jump", sold over four million copies. It also reached number 1 in Australia and New Zealand, and number 2 in the United Kingdom, held off the top by KWS' cover song "Please Don't Go". This song kept En Vogue's My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) from the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 which the song peaked at number 2.The song samples Jackson 5's song "I Want You Back", and Kris Kross later toured Europe together with Michael Jackson. At the beginning of their song they dissed another kid group Another Bad Creation when Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly said "don't try to compare us to another bad little fad".Fact|date=October 2008

It ranked #75 on "VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s", and #2 on their "Child Stars" Top 10 list.

Cover versions and parodies

There have been many covers or parodies of this song :

*The song was played in an episode of "Law & Order".

*"Jump" was re-written by Polish-German Musician DJ Tomekk. It contains the same background music.

*In 2006, "Jump" was covered by Australian hip hop artist Macromantics for Triple J's Like a Version segment.

*In 2007 rapper Remy Ma of Lean Back fame, recorded a version of Jump using the word "jump" as a synonym for "slut".

*Juelz Santana laid his own rap verses over the instrumental version (note: the instrumental sounds different than the original version).

*In the TV show "Bill Nye the Science Guy", there is a parody called "Water Cycle Jump".

In media

The song was used in a British advertisement to promote Corbin Bleu's new Disney Channel Original Movie, Jump In!.

Track listings

References

*allmusicguide|id=Kris+Kross&opt1=1|label=Kris Kross