Produced by Just Blaze, the beat was originally turned down by Beanie Sigel, Freeway and Jay-Z before Budden used it.

The music video was partially inspired by the 2002 film, The Ring,[citation needed] and begins with three women putting a videotape containing Pump It Up into a VCR player.

Budden then appears on the television screen and eventually walks out of it, when the video cuts to him performing the song to a large crowd in a park.

The rapper's freestyle of the song is included in the deluxe edition of his compilation album, The Hits Collection, Volume One (2010).

On December 12, 2015, during a guest appearance on an episode of Abstract Radio, a Beats 1 radio show on Apple Music hosted by rapper Q-Tip, Just Blaze debuted some exclusive unreleased music, which included an unreleased official remix of the song with a verse by the rapper Busta Rhymes.