Humpin'

"Humpin'"
Single by The Gap Band
from the album The Gap Band III
A-side "Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)"
B-side "No Hiding Place"
Released 1981
Recorded 1980
Genre Funk
P-Funk
Length 5:16
Label Mercury
Writer(s) Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor
The Gap Band singles chronology
"Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)"
(1980)
Humpin'
(1981)
"Yearning for Your Love"
(1981)

"Humpin'" is a 1980 song by The Gap Band, from their fifth album The Gap Band III released as a single in 1981. The original B-side, "No Hiding Place", was originally released on The Gap Band II.[1] The song had mixed chart success, only peaking at #60 R&B, but busting into the top-20 on the dance charts. "Humpin'" is a fan-favorite, featured on almost all of the band's compilation albums[2] Like their previous release, "Burn Rubber on Me", "Humpin'" was later packaged and placed as part of a single with "Yearning for Your Love" as the A-side.

Sampling

To date, the song has been sampled four times:[3]

References

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