Critical reception Ī's Bill Lamb said that 'after one time of hearing this riveting blend of rap and rock, you will likely never forget the sampled saxophone squeal from Jr. For his part, DJ Muggs says the sample came from neither Prince nor Junior Walker.

An identical squeal can also be heard throughout the track 'Gotta be a Leader,' released two years earlier by the group Guy.

However, Anil Dash claims the band has denied that the sample is Prince to avoid paying royalties to the singer. A Newsweek reader performed a spectrogram analysis, which revealed that the sample more closely matches Junior Walker and the All Stars' 'Shoot Your Shot', and House of Pain member Everlast himself told Questlove that it is a horn making the squeal and not Prince he later claimed the sample was from Divine Styler's 'Ain't Sayin' Nothin', which samples 'Shoot Your Shot'. American blogger Anil Dash and musician Questlove of hip-hop band The Roots have insisted on Prince's ' Gett Off' as the source. The origin of the squeal has been the subject of debate. The song also samples 'Popeye the Hitchhiker' by Chubby Checker, but it is best known for a high-pitched squealing sound that appears at the beginning of almost every bar-66 times in the course of the recording. The song features a distinctive horn fanfare intro, sampled from Bob & Earl's 1963 track ' Harlem Shuffle'. It was subsequently offered to Ice Cube, who refused it, before finally being taken and used by House of Pain. The song is popular among dancehall DJs and is widely regarded in the United Kingdom as a club classic.ĭJ Muggs has stated that he originally produced the beat for Cypress Hill, but rapper B-Real did not want to record at that time. 'Jump Around' was featured at position 580 on Q Magazine 's 1001 Best Songs Ever, number 24 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, number 66 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop, number 325 on Blender 's 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born and number 47 on NME 's 100 Best Songs Of The 1990s. A 1993 re-release of the song in the United Kingdom, where the initial release had been a minor hit, peaked at number 8. It became a hit in 1992, reaching number 3 in the United States. ' Jump Around' is a song by American hip hop group House of Pain, produced by DJ Muggs of the hip hop group Cypress Hill, who has also covered the song. ' Shamrocks and Shenanigans (Boom Shalock Lock Boom)' For 1995's The Den summer replacement, see Jump Around (Ireland).

For the TV series formerly known as The JumpArounds, see The Fresh Beat Band.

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