Kris Kross "Jump" vs. House Of Pain "Jump Around"

House of Pain no contest

the beginning of an epic thread no doubt, but i vote kris kross

no contest

Both of these songs are great but only one of them was playing when I got to see the Vice President's daughter be a distraught drunken mess in the corner of a party.

"Jump" 4eva (but I would have voted for The Movement over both)

"jump around" wins for the beat alone

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also the rapping is much better

house ov pain

Which vice president's daughter, dan?

"Jump" no contest

Gore (his oldest was my year and this was the only time I remember ever seeing her on campus)

i pick 'warm it up kris' over either

I can't remember a single thing about the verses from Jump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd6ZXFaxXrY&feature=fvst

the verses exist to kill time until the chorus

I can't remember a single thing about the verses from Jump

― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"inside out, its wiggidy wiggidy wiggidy wack"??

HOP does have the advantage of not biting "OPP"

The pan down to the backwards PURPLE pants is hard to vote against.

Jump's beat is just less interesting to me - oh look two super-overused samples (even at the time) vs. Jump Around's weird intro and squealing bleats come the fuck on

I spent a very fruitful summer driving a van for a summer school program for troubled teens where we bonded over a mixtape I had that had "Jump Around" on it; I often played this song on repeat (and, because of the way the mix went, I inadvertently got a bunch of surly suburban MN teens into 808 State, so win-win).

Like choosing between "Ticket to Ride" and "Eight Days a Week." "Jump Around" by a millimetre at the finish line. (I know it doesn't have "jump" in the title, but "O.P.P." would make for a good three-way.)

On the minus side, that experience inextricably linked "Jump Around" in my mind with revelations of teen pregnancy, which is kind of a bummer.

but yeah this still wins regardless because I am a corny rave kid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdIsupFaL_8

OPP would destroy both of these

My main memory of "Jump Around" is, er, jumping around like a maniac on the dancefloor with a bunch of crazy Norwegian students.

I know all the words to "Jump Around".
I know none for "Jump".

"Jump Around" has cornball similes, which were not uncommon at the time, but still no less annoying (play me out as if my name was Sega, bah).
"Jump", well its not exactly Afrikaa Bambaata.

Both have killer beats, with the slight nod to "Jump".

"Jump" is more direct, whereas "Jump Around" is more indecisive. Does this mean I can't jump while stationery, I have to move around? Too confusing.

Totally Krossed Out is better than the borefest that is Ho@'s debut...sans "I Missed the Bus".

So in conclusion, uh, I have no fucking idea...

Going for the one without a Top 5 alltime DJ Muggs beat is either corny seethrough poptimist revisionism or str8 corny herb shit

Whiney takin names!

theres a now-lost to the sands of time video of me as a 9 yr old staring directly into the video camera rapping all the words to 'i missed the bus'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Q0jPyrja0

http://www.tvacres.com/images/koolaid5b.jpg

*clicks link to make sure its not 9-year-old-me*

the House of Pain debut isn't great or anything but I have a real hard time believing Totally Krossed Out is better

but in general I am just a Muggs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jermain Dupri kinda guy

this is the best beat on the House Of Pain album tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l1wWxxBGBM

Xxpost Now I wait for my crucifixion. Note I never said Kross were good rappers but for a content free good time they were fun. I can barely remember anything else off of the HoP album other than "Bring Yer Shitkickers"

Krossed Out is almost so bad its good in a "lol 90s" way

THAT IS SOME STRAIGHT CORNY HERB SHIT MY GOOD SIR

too bad HoP didn't inspire other Euro-immigrant-pride crews - Italians, Germans, Swedes, Poles - all battling it out Ellis Island-stylee

(this Herb gets behind Muggs' Buzztone all the way)

I might just be being unfair cuz I think Everlast is a douche and hated his solo material. Obviously as rappers its no contest BUT "JUMP" BRINGS ME JUBILANT JOY and u can't take it away from me.

Also I still have my I Missed the Bus cassingle in its original case

(I like jump around a lot tho used to be a karaoke fav)

HOOS and Rev to thread

Everlast is a douche and hated his solo material

true but also completely beside the point

Lol what point, this is just a breezy "pick your poison" poll and I can't decide using a straightforward comparison cuz of sonic overkill from both. Besides I didn't technically even pick a side yet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9LSbEv_G_g

feel like whiney's otm here tho rapping i missed the bus when u were 9 is a good defense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPTSHv4AQUw

june 27th unscrewed just to balance up utubes a bit

I was 12 when both came out. Remember hearing Jump Around in the opening of Mrs. Doubtfire. Both were everywhere...even my bro who doesn't like rap woke up saying he dreamed he was in school and the teacher was rapping Jump Around as part of the lesson plan.

HOP does have the advantage of not biting "OPP"

― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:30 PM Bookmark

Treach wrote "Jump"!

But anyway, I prefer "Jump Around".

Treach wrote "Jump"!

never heard that one before. weird

my brother had that shirt too I think. he was friends with this Fundamentalist minister's kid, who, after he saw it for the first time, asked "Who's that?" apparently the sheltered fundie lifestyle had led to them bein sheltered away from WB cartoons to where he'd never even heard of Bugs Bunny at age 11. AND THAT'S NOT RIGHT.

They probably couldnt watch Simpsons either! My cousins were like that.

lol Simpsons was way out of the question.

after all the minister was a dude who claimed he had disproved Evolution with a routine 'slime mold' experiment at a church retreat despite no scientific training or background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTPSwkL9BtQ

"Like Cypress Hill, you know we gon' Jump Around"

cypress hill's producer did make the beat

when we were 12 my brother that that high pitched shriek that really *makes* that beat was a chick singing

x-post I know.

I don't read it as an error but as crediting the song to a cooler group.

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is jump around the one with the McEnroe line? it's hard to tell if they are closer to sarah silverman or carlos mencia on that one.

yep

"i'll serve ya ass like John McEnroe
If your girl steps to me I'm slappin the ho
Word to your moms, I came to drop bombs
I got more rhymes than the Bible's got psalms
And just like the Prodigal Son, I return
Anyone steppin' to me, ya get burned
Cuz I got lyrics and you ain't got none
So if you wanna battle bring a shotgun"

way too many corny similes in the song.

I thought it was "I got backhand like John McEnroe"
do they have a different McEnroe song?

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that's right

more herbs than a kfc up in this

kriss kross needed to study up on their tennis greats apparently.

and 16 bit game systems, religious tomes, and science fiction movie characters

matter of fact everything besides crouching down and pulling yourself forcefully off of the ground, they need to study up on

imma get ova'/ like navratilova

remember first time i heard everlast, on ice-t's rhyme syndicate comin' through comp

kinda funny nasally voice on this, he used to dress like pete nice from 3rd bass

still kinda of a charming 80s vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCcq3BDWvC0

also he was great as the crooked cop in Prince Among Thieves by Prince Paul before he started his whole "i'm constipated" modern rock blues style

i have his first album somewhere in the basement ("Forever Everlasting"? i think?) and it is dreadful

so nuts that the dude that did "what it's like" and the guy that recorded this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYjsWeI5rJo

were both in the same crew and that crew was Ice-Ts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibyUi3TpZpY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Look! It's awful!

haha

"i'm everlast
born to be a causcasian"

donald d was pretty dope tho, this was my shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icxoZzxjXzE

yeah the opening line kinda defines a career

henry g and evil g had a group called spinmasters, it was a little anachronistic even with the rhyme syndicate comp came out, like 89 i think? anyway, kinda nice old school vibe and chuck brown sample

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSzoh8Ax2WM

Spinmasters: We're your prime rib!

:) :) :)

two steps, off my tip: walk

^^kinda yoda style

(oops also evil E obv)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YDmgrg5e1U
^^^dope

this thread makes me want to start a lord have mercy appreciation thread that no one else will post to

yah that prince among thieves thing is great

BRING IT

http://gawker.com/5976464/weve-officially-reached-peak-90s-nostalgia-kris-kross-is-reuniting

No Van Halen "Jump" reference?
For shame...

RIP Chris Kelly

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/showbiz/georgia-chris-kelly-obituary/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCLXChS2eBQ

Aw RIP

That's unbelievable.

Well, that's depressing.

If nothing else, this will hopefully encourage more people to go back to the underrated second and third Kriss Kross albums.

awww. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKVxZAV_qhg

damn that's wild, opening for MJ

Poor guy. Only 34.

I used to laugh at the backwards clothes thing, but no-one should die at 34. RIP

Totally Krossed Out was one of the first albums I owned on CD. If I'd had it on tape I probably would have worn it out. RIP Chris :(

This shouldn't be surprising, but it always catches me a little short anyway. Two out of my class of 24 kids had heard about this or knew anything about Kris Kross or "Jump." (One girl mentioned a current hip-hop group that wears their clothes backwards.) With 12-year-olds, I may just as well have been talking about Danny & the Juniors. They did seem to really enjoy "Jump," though.