Kriss Kross - Jump (Extended Version)

Sadly, we lost half of Kriss Kross today. RIP Chris!

"Jump" is a hit song by the American hip hop duo Kris Kross. It was released on February 6, 1992, as a single from their first studio album Totally Krossed Out. It achieved great success: in many countries, including Australia, Switzerland and the U.S., it topped the charts.

Kris Kross's members were only 12 and 13 years old when they recorded their hit song. "Jump" was written 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 one on the charts 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, in which the song peaked at number 2. At the time of its eight-week run, it was the longest running No. 1 since The Police's "Every Breath You Take" spent eight weeks at No. 1 in the summer of 1983.

The song samples The Honeydrippers' "Impeach the President", Ohio Players' "Funky Worm" and Jackson 5's "I Want You Back"; 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". The original song's introduction contained a sample of Another Bad Creation's song "Playground" which was followed by a scratching sound giving the effect that their record was being taken off to play "Jump". This was soon removed due to copyright infringement.

It ranked number 75 on "VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90's", and number two on their "Child Stars" Top 10 list. Most recently, the song (mislabeled as "Jump, Jump") was ranked at No. 34 on the list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever by Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio, who tells the reader not to blame the kids of Kris Kross, but to look behind the curtain for Treach and Dupri, whom he labeled as "true villains".