EXCLUSIVE: Black Eyed Peas sample “Pump It Up”

Posted by Manuel Wälti on Jun 22nd, 2009 and filed under Featured, UpFront. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Besides “Put your hands up in the air” it’s probably the best know song by the “Black & White Brothers” aka Mr. Mike & Djaimin: “Pump it up”. It has been gained success again after Danzel brought it to the European dancefloors in 2004.
Now it seems that Mr. Mike’s famous vocals will get another world wide hit. His lyrics has been sampled by no other than the US Hip Hop Band “Black Eyed Peas”. On the special edition of their new album “The E.N.D.” they have a new version of “Pump it” which is now called “Pump it harder” where they used the lyrics “Don’t you know pump it up, you’ve got to pump it up”. Listen here:

Black Eyed Peas performed this version already in several TV shows, such as the Ellen Degeneres show:

Mr Mike said Groovenite.com, he has been informed by his Belgian Publisher Universal about this matter. “I was never contacted nor informed about the Black Eyed Peas“. US lawyers started to work on this case. Mr Mike: “It seems that my track was way ahead of its time

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