The Jump Off

Album

La Bella Mafia

Label

Queen Bee

Genre

Hip hop

Media Type

CD

Composer(s)

K. Jones;T. Mosley

Entered Chart

Feb 8, 2003

Peak Date

Apr 19, 2003

Released

February 10, 2003

Recorded

2002

Catalog #

Queen Bee 88036

The music video for the song was filmed at "Capitale" in New York City. It was directed by Benny Boom

The Jump Off" was a big-time party starter in 2003, loaded with energy and propelled by a thick beat from Timbaland, who produced it. Timbaland was still at the top of his game; a year earlier he produced Justin Timberlake's Justified album. The song was a return to action for Lil' Kim. It was released as the first single from her 2003 album La Bella Mafia, her first since The Notorious K.I.M. three years earlier. In the interim, she made some high-profile guest appearances, particularly on the 2001 remake of "Lady Marmalade" for the movie Moulin Rouge. At the beginning of the song, she makes her entrance: I been gone for a minute now I'm back with the jump off Lil' Kim got her start in Notorious B.I.G.'s group Junior M.A.F.I.A., where she was the only female rapper. They had a few hits from their 1995 album Conspiracy. Kim signed with Atlantic as a solo artist and released albums in 1996 and 2000, using producers from Notorious B.I.G.'s camp, particularly Puff Daddy. For La Bella Mafia, she broke away from this group and used a new set of producers, including Timbaland. "The Jump Off" represents a fresh start. Long before Nicki Minaj claimed the moniker, Lil' Kim called herself "Black Barbie," which she does in this song: Black Barbie dressed in Bulgari Mr. Cheeks, known for his work in the Lost Boyz crew, features on this track. His biggest hit came in 2001 with "Lights, Camera, Action!" Kim followed up "The Jump Off" with "Magic Stick," which features 50 Cent. That song was slated for 50 Cent's debut album, Get Rich Or Die Tryin', and was supposed to feature Trina, but it ended up going to Kim with 50 listed as the featured artist. The song rose all the way to #2 even though no video was made to promote it. It ended up being her last big hit. After she lied to investigators about a 2001 shooting, Kim went to jail for perjury in 2005, around the time her next album, The Naked Truth, was released. The single "Lighters Up" was a minor hit. The album title, La Bella Mafia, comes from the 1997 TV movie Bella Mafia.

Intro: Lil' Kim (Mr. Cheeks)]
Whoa! (Whoa!) Whoa! (Yeah)
Aiyyo Tim man this the jump off right here man! (Jump off!)
Whoa! (Whoa!) Whoa! (Whoa!) Whoa! (It's Queen Bee nigga)
It's the jump off (Come on)

[Verse 1: Lil' Kim (Mr. Cheeks)]
I been gone for a minute now I'm back at the jump off (Jump off)
Goons in the club in case somethin jumps off
And back up before the hive let the pump off
In the graveyard is where you get dumped off
All we wanna do is party (Woo!)
And buy everybody at the bar Bacardi (Woo!)
Black Barbie dressed in Bvlgari
I'm trying to leave in somebody's Ferrari
Spread love that's what a real mob do
Keep it gangsta look out for her people (For her people)
I'm the wicked bitch of the east, you better keep the peace (Aiyyo!)
Or out come the beast
We the best still there's room for improvement
Our presence is felt like a Black Panther movement
Seven quarter to eights back to back with 'em (Back to back)
And I'm sittin on chrome seven times platinum

[Chorus: Lil' Kim & Mr. Cheeks]
This is for my peeps, with the Bentley's, the Hummers, the Benz
Escalades twenty three inch rims (Oh!)
Jumping out the Jaguar with the Tims, keep it real
And live good, East coast West coast worldwide
All my players in the hood stay fly
And if your balling let me hear you say ride (ride)

[Verse 2: Lil' Kim (Mr. Cheeks)]
It's Lil' Kim and Timbaland niggas shit ya drawers (Come on)
Special delivery for you and yours (Now)
I rep for bitches he rep for boys (Uh ha)
If you rep for your hood then make some noise
I got my eye on the guy in the Woolrich coat
Don't he know Queen Bee got the ill deep throat?
Uh! Let me show you what I'm all about
How I make a Sprite can disappear in my mouth....HO!!!!
Shake up the dice, throw down your ice (What)
Bet it all player fuck the price
Money ain't a thing throw it out like rice
Been around the world cop the same thing twice
Rub on my tits (Huh!) squeeze on my ass (Oh!)
Gimme some UH!!! step on the gas (Ah)
Pop the cork and roll up the hash (Roll it!)
You know what we about, sex, drugs and cash

[Chorus]

[Verse 3: Lil' Kim (Mr. Cheeks)]
Enter the world of the Playboy pin up girl
Buttnaked dressed in nothing but pearls
You wanna meet me cause ya, know I'm freaky
And ya, wanna eat me cause ya, say I'm sexy
Got a man in Japan and a dude in Tahiti
Believe me sweety I got enough to feed the needy
No need to be greedy I got mad friends that's pretty (Hey!)
Chicks by the layers (And) all different flavors (Woo!)
Mafioso that's how this thing go (Yeah)
Now everybody come get with the lingo
Shake your body body, move your body body (Body body)
On the dancefloor don't hurt nobody body (Body body)
I'm the one that put the "Range" in the "Rover"
When I'm steppin out the "Range" yo it's over
Coming through in the Brooklyn Mint gear
We 'gone do this just like Big Poppa was here

[Chorus]

[Outro: Mr. Cheeks]
Yeah, to the what, yeah, oh, yo, keep your bread up, yeah, and worldwide
And stay fly nigga, yeah man, right right right right, Queen Bee, LB
Two thousand and, fucking three, why not? we making it hot
She back at it, why wouldn't she be? come on, yeah
B.I.G. Freaky Tah, yeah yeah yeah, L's, light 'em, oh...