Pump It Up (Joe Budden song)

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 "Pump It Up" on YouTube

"**Pump It Up**" is a song by American rapper Joe Budden. It was released on March 24, 2003, as the lead single from his first album, *Joe Budden* (2003). The song peaked at number 38 on the US *Billboard* Hot 100 and at number 13 in the United Kingdom.

Produced by Just Blaze, the beat was originally turned down by Beanie Sigel, Freeway and Jay-Z before Budden used it. It contains a sample from "Soul Vibrations" as performed by Kool & the Gang. The song was nominated for the Best Male Rap Solo Performance award at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards.

## Music video

The music video was partially inspired by the 2002 film, *The Ring*, and begins with three women putting a videotape containing Pump It Up into a VCR player. Budden then appears on the television screen and eventually walks out of it, when the video cuts to him performing the song to a large crowd in a park. The music video features cameos from DJ Envy, DJ Clue and Dub-B.

## Remix

The official remix is a mash-up of two beef freestyles by Jay-Z and Budden against the other person. The rapper's freestyle of the song is included in the deluxe edition of his compilation album, *The Hits Collection, Volume One* (2010).

On December 12, 2015, during a guest appearance on an episode of *Abstract Radio*, a Beats 1 radio show on Apple Music hosted by rapper Q-Tip, Just Blaze debuted some exclusive unreleased music, which included an unreleased official remix of the song with a verse by the rapper Busta Rhymes.

## Track listing

**US 12-inch vinyl**

1. "Pump It Up" (clean) – 4:14
2. "Pump It Up" (dirty) – 4:13
3. "Pump It Up" (instrumental) – 4:13
4. "Pump It Up" (acapella) – 4:09

## Charts

 Germany (Official German Charts)
 Scotland (OCC)
 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)
 UK Singles (OCC)
 UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC)
 US *Billboard* Hot 100
 US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (*Billboard*)
 US Hot Rap Songs (*Billboard*)
 US Rhythmic (*Billboard*)

## Release history

* urban radio
 United Kingdom
* CD
* cassette

## New Edition version

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The song was New Edition's first single from their comeback album, *Now You See Us*, as well as for the *Codename: Kids Next Door: The Movie* motion picture soundtrack, which was scheduled to include several remakes of classic songs, New Edition picking it for inclusion in the soundtrack. Their version was produced by Sean Combs, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Mario Winans, Ryan Leslie and Nisan Stewart, giving the hip-hop song a more modern feel, and adding new music and lyrics and lead rapped verses from Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ronnie DeVoe and Bobby Brown. The video had thus tremendous exposure on several television channels, with the song receiving airplay on Cartoon Network. As a result, the song had two music videos, one to promote the Cartoon Network movie, the other for the album.

New Edition was paid $10 million for recording the song. Shortly afterwards, New Edition re-signed a new recording contract with Bad Boy Records, and announced they would record new material, as a promise to their fans and themselves to release new music that year.

### Charts

 Netherlands (Single Top 100)
 Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)
 US *Billboard* Hot 100
 US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (*Billboard*)
 US Hot Singles Sales (*Billboard*)

### Music video

The video was directed by Hype Williams and filmed on a green screen in Los Angeles, California. The lineup of New Edition: Tresvant, Gill, Ricky Bell, DeVoe, and Michael Bivins were digitally de-aged by 20 and 21 years, while Brown was digitally de-aged by 19 years. It had two different versions. The "Cartoon Network Version", as the fans named it, features scenes of the movie, and also new scenes of New Edition with summer festive costumes. The "New Edition Version" of the video, features New Edition on the white background with different close-ups and choreography, and scenes with hot girls and different costumes.

### Track listing

1. "Pump It Up" (album version) – 3:10
2. "Don't Give Up" – 3:27
Performed by Chris Kirkpatrick
3. "It's the Young Life" – 3:02
Performed by RichGirl
Included in only Australian and one of European releases