"Jump" - Kris Kross

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Well I've neglected the crap out of this blog.  I don't know why, it was easy to create content for it.  I need to start posting again in this everyday.  A musical autobiography is fun to write.

I decided to write about this song with the passing this week of one of Kris Kross' members, Chris Kelly.  I've never been much of a hip-hop fan, but at the time this song was out in 1992, you couldn't avoid it.  It was also significant that I was the same age as the then-14-year-old rappers, so I thought it cool that kids my age were making it big.

For some reason, my most significant memory of this song was watching the video at a sleepover at my school friend Samantha's house, along with Lindsay, Jessica, Stacy and some other girls from our very small school.  Again, as a white girl from the sticks, I didn't get into much rap, but the video was all over the place and was hard to avoid.