Put Your Hands Up (LL Cool J song)

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"Put Your Hands Up"
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Single by LL Cool J
from the album Violator: The Album, V2.0
B-side "Put Your Hands Up"
ReleasedMay 13, 2001
Genre Hip hop
Length3:56
Label Violator Records
Songwriter(s) James Todd Smith, Kasseem Dean
Producer(s) Swizz Beatz
LL Cool J singles chronology
"'You and Me'"
(2000)
"Put Your Hands Up"
(2001)
"'Blink Blink'"
(2002)

"Put Your Hands Up" is a single by LL Cool J from the hip-hop compilation album, Violator: The Album, V2.0. It was released in 2001 for Violator Records and was written and produced from LL and Swizz Beatz. Put Your Hands Up spent 1 week on the Hot Rap Singles chart, peaking at #50.

Contents

Track listing

A-Side

  1. "Put Your Hands Up" (Clean Version)- 3:45

B-Side

  1. "Put Your Hands Up" (Dirty Version)- 3:45
  2. "Put Your Hands Up" (Instrumental)- 3:45

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