Jump, Jump!

R.I.P. Mac Daddy

For all intents and purposes, Kriss Kross was pretty much a one hit wonder (album, at least). Totally Krossed Out came out 21 years ago (Yes, you are old). They tried a comeback which failed to pan out, and that was pretty much it for them. Still, Mac Daddy's death was on CNN's homepage last night and I think it was well deserved.

It says something about you if you can have one major hit over two decades ago and still have name recognition. I don't know about you, but no 90s playlist is complete without Jump. And not even the album version that just starts off with the chorus. It's gotta be the extended version that starts off with, "Some of them try to rhyme, but they can't rhyme like this!" Yeah, that's the one. I was in the bowling alley one day in college when that came on and I almost broke my neck in those shoes trying to jump. I wasn't alone. I looked up and saw two or three people planking in the lane.

I'm trying to remember where I was when I first heard Jump. More than likely I was watching Arsenio, another victim of time. But that's my point: The song is iconic. It's an anchor that holds my 90s memories in place. I remember listening to it in the car on the way to go see Bebe's Kids in the theater. I remember it playing at a dance we had in elementary school. They pushed all the metal crates that the book fair books were in up against the wall of the 'multipurpose' room (aka the cafeteria) and brought in a DJ. I can't dance now and I really couldn't dance back then, but jump was pretty much an instructional song. "Wait for it. Wait for it. NOW! Jump! Jump! Stand still. Jump! Jump!"

I still know the dance to this day.

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