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"Hands Up" a song by American girl group TLC. It was written and produced by both Babyface and Daryl Simmons for the band's fourth studio album, 3D (2002), and released as the album's second single following "Girl Talk" in the United States in November 2002. The sensual mid-tempo song became the band's first single release to neither enter the US Billboard Hot 100 nor the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. It, however, reached number 18 on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales chart. The song was not included on any of the group's official greatest hits albums. Remixes for the track were used as the B-side to follow-up single "Damaged" in European countries.

"Hands Up"
Single by TLC
from the album 3D
Released	November 5, 2002
Recorded	April 2002
Genre	R&B
Length	3:48
Label	Arista
Songwriter(s)	Babyface Daryl Simmons
Producer(s)	Babyface Daryl Simmons
TLC singles chronology
"Girl Talk" (2002) "Hands Up" (2002) "Damaged" (2003)

Released to positive reviews, "Hands Up" garnered TLC a nomination at the 2004 Grammy Awards for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. An accompanying music video, directed by Matthew Rolston, features a cameo appearance by Countess Vaughn. A remix featuring Jermaine Dupri and the Kid Slim was recorded, containing interpolations of "Nasty Boy" by the Notorious B.I.G.

Music video

The video was shot on January 10, 2003. TLC is reunited with Matthew Rolston, director of their videos for "Creep" and "Red Light Special", for the music video of the song. In it, band members T-Boz and Chilli are at a futuristic strip club where several of the male strippers have tattoos of UPCs and they are scanning them. A behind-the-scenes footage was shown on BET's Access Granted.

The video was released as a DVD single along with the video for "Girl Talk".

Track listing

Notes

• ^{^[A]} denotes additional producer
• ^{^[B]} denotes additional co-producer

Sample credits

• "Hands Up" (So So Def Remix)" contains portions from "Nasty Boy" as performed by the Notorious B.I.G.

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of 3D.[1]

Charts

Chart performance for "Hands Up"

Chart (2003)	Peak position
UK Singles (OCC)[2]	109
UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC)[3]	23
US Hot Singles Sales (Billboard)[4]	18
US Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles (Billboard)[5]	7

References

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