Push It (Salt-n-Pepa song)
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| Single by Salt-N-Pepa | ||
| from the album Hot, Cool & Vicious & "Greatest Hits" | ||
| B-side | "I Am Down" | |
| Released | March 9, 1987 | |
| Format | 12" vinyl | |
| Recorded | 1986 | |
| Genre | Old School Rap, dance | |
| Length | Album Version (3:30) | |
| Label | Next Plateau Records / London Records | |
| Writer(s) | Hurby Azor | |
| Producer | Hurby Azor | |
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"Push It" is a song by the group Salt-N-Pepa. This song was released on March 9, 1987.
The quote "This dance ain't for everybody, only the sexy people" is a reference to the song "The Bird" by the band The Time.
"Push it" has been widely sampled in various dance mixes. The song is ranked #440 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Number 9 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
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[edit] Song information
"Push It" was the first Salt-N-Pepa single to be a success at mainstream radio, peaking at #19 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart; helping promote the overall emergence of rap music in the late 1980s. "Push It" advanced into the Top 40 the week of December 26, 1987, eventually reaching its peak of #19 the week of February 20, 1988. It also ties with "Let's Talk About Sex" as their highest-charting UK hit, both peaking at #2 in that country. "Push It" was the beginning of a successful career for the female rap trio that would carry on into the mid-1990s, as the group would become the best-selling female rap act ever and one of the most successful rap acts, either male or female.
[edit] Music Video
The music video released to promote the single featured a concert performance of the song.
[edit] Chart performance
| Country | Peak position |
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| Dutch Top 40[1] | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
| U.S. Hot Rap Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 4 |
[edit] Cover versions
- Covered by British singer Harry in 2003 for a Rimmel commercial.
- Covered by Australian singer-actress Sophie Monk in 2007 for a push up bras promotion.
- Covered by Death metal band Ten Masked Men on the album Return of the Ten Masked Men
- In 2008 on their Tangled Up Tour, the girl group Girls Aloud performed the song. There are currently no plans for the song to be commercially released.
- Covered by American Hardcore-Punk-Band Spark is a Diamond on their debut.
- Covered by the "Bud Band" in Budweiser's UK adverts in 2008.
[edit] In Other Media
- Video shown in an episode of Beavis and Butthead
- Played on the ads for the deodorant 'Impulse Tease' starring Jessica Tovey from Home and Away
- Played in the 1999 movie 10 Things I Hate About You
- Sampled in 2003 for "Let It All Out (Push It)," the first solo single of René Dif, lead male singer of Aqua
- Played in the 2004 movie Soul Plane
- Played in the 2004 movie My Baby's Daddy
- Played in 2004/2005 Swiffer mop commercials
- Played during a 2005 Nextel television advertisement
- Played in the 2005 movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- Played in the 2005 TV series Surface episode 1.07
- Played in the 2006 movie Grandma's Boy.
- Played in the 2008 movie Make It Happen.
- Played in an episode of Peep Show (TV series).
- Quoted by a talking turtle to his wife as she tells him to push their laptop farther across the lawn to test their internet reception, in a 2006 Comcast high-speed internet commercial
- Used before the showing of a programme on Fiver
- Remixed with "No Fun" by Belgian group 2 Many DJs, becoming what is one of their signature mashups
- Remixed by American group, The Diplomats
- Used in a remix to "My Humps"
- Used as an excerpt for New Kids On The Block's "Step By Step" on their Live tour.
- Remade by Pretty Ricky to "Push It Baby"
- Apolo Anton Ohno danced to it on Dancing with the Stars
- Sampled for Timbaland's "The Way I Are"
- Sampled for Destiny's Child's "Nasty Girl"
- Sampled for Ciara's "Do It"
- Quoted in Missy Elliott's "Don't Be Cruel" on This Is Not a Test!.
- Sampled for a 2007 McDonald's commercial
- Sampled by the Gorillaz in the song 'Kids with Guns'
- Danny Tidwell and Sara Von Gillern danced to "Push It" on Season 3 of So You Think You Can Dance.
- Sampled for the main bassline "Push The Ghosts" a 2007 single, by The Twang.
- Used on ECW's Extreme Exposé
- A song to dance to on week 7 on America's Best Dance Crew
- Sampled by gay rapper Solomon on his mixtape "Rhyting Rhymes Vol. 1"
- Sampled by Diplo in the song Sunshowers for the M.I.A. mixtape Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1.
- Sampled and covered by Harlem rap group Dipset in 2004.
- Used in Showtime's The L Word, Season 6 when Alice, Tasha and Jamie danced in the Dance Marathon
[edit] References
- ^ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 29, 1988". http://www.radio538.nl/web/show/id=44685/chartid=5839. Retrieved on 2008-03-20.
