“Push It” is Salt-N-Pepa’s first hit song and one of their most famous. Although often mistaken as a song about sex, the group insists “Push It” is about dancing.
Written by friend/record production student Hurby Luv Bug, the song was originally not included on SNP’s debut album Hot, Cool and Vicio...
[Intro]
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
(Hit it)
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Get up on this!
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Ah, push it (Ow, get up on this)
Ah, push it (Get up on this)
Ow, baby
Salt and Pepa's here
Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt and Pepa's here
Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt and Pepa's here
Salt and, Salt and, Salt and Pepa's here
Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt and Pepa's here
(Now wait a minute, y'all; This dance ain't for everybody
Only the sexy people
So all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance
Dance, I said!)
[Verse 1]
Salt and Pepa's here, and we're in effect
Want you to push it, babe
Coolin' by day then at night, working up a sweat
C'mon girls, let's go show the guys that we know
How to become number one in a hot party show
Now push it
[Chorus]
Ah, push it — push it good
Ah, push it — push it real good
Ah, push it — push it good
Ah, push it — p-push it real good
[Post-Chorus]
Hey! Ow!
Push it good!
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Oooh, baby, baby
Ba-baby, baby
Push it good
Push it real good
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
[Verse 2]
Yo, yo, yo, yo, baby-pop
Yeah, you, come here, give me a kiss
Better make it fast or else I'm gonna get pissed
Can't you hear the music's pumpin' hard like I wish you would?
Now push it
[Pre-Chorus]
Push it good
Push it real good
Push it good
P-push it real good
[Chorus]
Ah, push it
Get up on this!
Ah, get up on this!
Ah ah, get up on this!
Ow, get up on this! (Hid it)
Boy, you really got me going
You got me so I don't know what I'm doing
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Boy, you really got me going
You got me so I don't know what I'm doing
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Ah
Ah, push it
Push it push push it push it
Push it, push push push it, push it
Push it, push it, push it push it push it
Push it, push it, push it push it push it
Push It was written by Herby “Luvbug” Azor & Ray Davies.
Push It was produced by Herby “Luvbug” Azor.
Salt-N-Pepa released Push It on Mon Dec 08 1986.
Sandra Denton (Pepa) said in a interview with the Guardian:
For 30 years, we have been telling people that “Push It” isn’t about sex, but no one ever believes us. Honestly, for us, as young girls, it was about dancing. At one show they tried to censor us and the police were called to stand at the s...