Push It (Salt-n-Pepa song)

Infobox Single
Name = Push It


Caption = "Push It" single cover
Artist = Salt-N-Pepa
Album = Hot, Cool & Vicious
B-side = "I Am Down"
Released = 1987
Format = 12" vinyl
Recorded = 1986
Genre = Old School Rap, dance
Length = 3:30
Label = Next Plateau Records / London Records
Writer = Hurby Azor
Producer = Hurby Azor
Misc =Audiosample
Upper caption = Audio sample
Audio file = Push It by Salt-N-Pepa.ogg

"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.

ong 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|Date=April, 2008

Chart performance

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.

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".
*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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLs7DSxsLog 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"
*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 ""
*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.

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