Push It (Salt-N-Pepa song)

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"Push It"

Single by Salt-N-Pepa
from the album Hot, Cool and Vicious
Released	1987
Format	12" vinyl
Recorded	1986
Genre	pop rap
Length	3:30
Label	London Records
Writer(s)	Hurby Azor
Producer(s)	Hurby Azor
Chart positions
#2 (UK Singles Chart) #19 (US Hot 100)

"Push It" is a song by the band Salt-N-Pepa. This song was released in 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.

The lyric "Boy, you really got me going, You got me so I don't know what I'm doing" is a tweaked excerpt from the Kinks song "You Really Got Me".

The song is ranked #440 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and is the group's only song on the list.

[edit] Song Information

"Push It" was the first Salt-N-Pepa single to be a success at mainstream radio and also appear on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, perhaps promoting 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 a peak of #19 the week of February 20, 1988. "Push It" became Salt-N-Pepa's signature single and was the beginning of a rather succesful career for the female rap trio that would carry on into the mid-1990s.

[edit] In the media

Played in the 1999 movie 10 Things I Hate about You.
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 2006 movie Grandma's Boy.
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