WAKE IT UP!!
On this DAY 31 years ago, Kris Kross released their DEBUT album, ‘Totally Krossed Out’! RIP Chris Kelly!
Totally Krossed Out was released March 31 that year and sold four million copies in the U.S. It included the hit single “Jump“, which became the first rap song to top the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks.
The music videos from the album also experienced major success. The video for “Jump”, directed by filmmaker Rich Murray, went to No. 1 on MTV and sold over 100,000 copies as a VHS video single. The video for their follow-up single, “Warm It Up“, also directed by Murray, won a Billboard video award for “Best New Artist”, and got to No. 14 the same year as “Jump”. Writes The New York Daily News’ Jim Farber: “Together, that was enough to propel the duo’s debut album, Totally Krossed Out, to multi-platinum status.”
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