Tag Team — "Whoomp! (There It Is)"
Two words that could fill any gym, wedding, or stadium in the 90s. Tag Team's 1993 anthem "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was pure call-and-response bass-music joy — and one of the best-selling singles of the decade.
Atlanta duo Tag Team — Cecil Glenn and Steve Gibson — released "Whoomp! (There It Is)" on May 7, 1993. Built on a booming beat and an irresistible crowd chant, it was engineered from the ground up to detonate a dance floor, and it did exactly that.
It spent seven weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 across September and October 1993 and was eventually certified 4× platinum, selling more than 3.5 million copies in the US — making it one of the biggest singles of the decade. It became a permanent fixture of sporting events and stadium hype reels, and later anchored the Jock Jams compilation series.
Confusingly, 1993 produced a near-twin: 95 South's "Whoot, There It Is," released roughly a month before Tag Team's single. The two are separate songs by separate groups; both sides said the phrase was common slang in Atlanta and Miami clubs, though 95 South has long maintained the resemblance was no coincidence — that Tag Team copied them. Tag Team's is the one that became a true national phenomenon — and it has never really left.
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