Push It (Salt-n-Pepa song)

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“Push It”
Push It single cover
Single by Salt-N-Pepa from the album Hot, Cool & Vicious
B-side	"I Am Down"
Released	1987
Format	12" vinyl
Recorded	1986
Genre	Pop Rap/Old School Rap
Length	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 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.

1 Song information
2 Popularity
3 Chart performance
4 Cover versions
5 In Other Media
6 References

[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. It also ties with "Let's Talk About Sex" as their highest-charting UK hit, peaking at #2. "Push It" became Salt-N-Pepa's signature single and 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 most successful female rap act and one of the most successful rap acts ever.^[who?]

[edit] Popularity

The techno beat of Push It was a favourite to many DJs, Remixers & beatboxers for its highly catchy tune and originality. Push It was sampled highly in songs and grew in popularity in the techno generation & now-a-day hip-hop/techno.

[edit] Chart performance

Country	Peak position
The Netherlands^[1]	1
United Kingdom	2
United States	19

[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.

[edit] In Other Media

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.
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
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"
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
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.