Pumps and a Bump

"Pumps and a Bump" is a song by Hammer from his 1994 album The Funky Headhunter.[2] The single peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart and No. 26 on the Hot 100, making it the final Top 40 hit of Hammer's career.

"Pumps and a Bump"
Single cover
Single by Hammer
from the album The Funky Headhunter
ReleasedFebruary 28, 1994
Format
Recorded1993
Length5:05
LabelGiant
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Hammer, Gerald Baillergeau[1]
Hammer singles chronology
"This Is the Way We Roll"
(1992)		 "Pumps and a Bump"
(1994)		 "It's All Good"
(1994)

Release and reception

"Pumps and a Bump" was the first single off The Funky Headhunter, which represented a departure from Hammer's previous pop image.[3] The track contains a sample of George Clinton's 1982 single "Atomic Dog".[1]

The original music video featured Hammer wearing nothing but a Speedo and dancing suggestively alongside numerous swimsuit-clad women, which resulted in it being banned from MTV as it was considered too graphic.[4] An alternative video was filmed with Hammer fully clothed[5] and featuring an appearance by Deion Sanders, while promoted as representing a remix of the song.[6]

Pop culture impact

Hammer appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show in response to the controversial music video in the mid-1990s.

In 2010, American Idol contestant Larry Platt performed his own song titled "Pants on the Ground", which Entertainment Weekly claimed sounded similar to "Pumps and a Bump".[7] Spin magazine described the banned music video as "'Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show' cranked to 11".[3]

The 2017, Fifth Harmony song "He Like That" contains a portion of the song in its chorus.

Chart positions
Charts Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 26

Additional chart positions: US R&B No. 21 / US Rap No. 3 / US Dance No. 34

References
  1. ""Pumps and a Bump"". Discogs.
  2. "The Funky Headhunter - MC Hammer". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
  3. Staff (August 15, 2013). "A DECADE IN RAP CENSORSHIP (1990-1999)". Spin. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  4. Sanchez, Karissa (June 27, 2013). "25. Hammer's animal skin Speedo - The Worst Hip-Hop Fashion Fails of All Time". Complex. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  5. Holmes, Dave (June 12, 2014). "Dave Holmes Hits the Summer Songs of 1994". Vulture. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  6. Billboard (April 16, 1994), p. 48.
  7. Slezak, Michael (January 14, 2010). "'American Idol' recap: Devil Went Down to Georgia". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on January 31, 2010.
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