"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. It became a hit in 1992, reaching number 3 in the United States. A 1993 re-release of the song in the United Kingdom, where the initial release had been a minor hit, peaked at number 8. "Jump Around" was featured at position 580 on Q Magazines 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 Blenders 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born and number 47 on NMEs 100 Best Songs Of The 1990s. The song is popular among dancehall DJs and is widely regarded in the United Kingdom as a club classic. Development DJ Muggs has stated that he originally produced the beat for Cypress Hill, but rapper B-Real did not want to record at that time. It was subsequently offered to Ice Cube, who refused it, before finally being taken and used by House of Pain. Samples The song features a distinctive horn fanfare intro, sampled from Bob & Earl's 1963 track "Harlem Shuffle". 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 origin of the squeal has been the subject of debate. American blogger Anil Dash and musician Questlove of hip-hop band The Roots have insisted on Prince's "Gett Off" as the source. 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". However, Anil Dash claims the band has denied that the sample is Prince to avoid paying royalties to the singer. An identical squeal can also be heard throughout the track "Gotta be a Leader," released two years earlier by the group Guy. For his part, DJ Muggs says the sample came from neither Prince nor Junior Walker. Critical reception About.com's Bill Lamb said that "after one time