Synopsis

Shot in stark black and white, the video follows K-Ci, JoJo, and Mr. Dalvin as they ride through Charlotte on top of a bus. Along the way, they gather people from basketball courts, front steps, and neighborhood streets, turning an ordinary city journey into a moving block party. The growing crowd eventually forms a celebratory parade around the bus, with residents dancing and responding to the song's upbeat invitation to leave their seats and join the fun.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video uses Charlotte, North Carolina, as its visual setting. Charlotte was also the city where Jodeci was formed.

• The black-and-white cinematography gives the clip a documentary-like street feel, setting it apart from the more polished romantic and nightclub-oriented R&B videos commonly associated with Jodeci in the mid-1990s.

• The bus serves as the video's central moving stage. Rather than placing the group in a conventional performance venue, the production brings the performance directly into neighborhood streets.

• The crowd is built from everyday scenes, including basketball, sidewalk gatherings, and children playing. The result is less a scripted storyline than a community procession that grows as the song continues.

• "Get On Up" was produced by Mr. Dalvin and written by Dalvin DeGrate with K-Ci and JoJo. It was the only Jodeci single not produced or written by DeVante Swing.

• DeVante Swing does not appear in the video, even though he remained part of Jodeci and contributed background vocals to the recording.

• The song contains a sample from "Velas," a 1981 composition by Ivan Lins and Vitor Martins, performed by Quincy Jones featuring Toots Thielemans.

• Released as the third and final single from 1995's "The Show, the After Party, the Hotel," it became Jodeci's last single before the group returned with new music in 2014.