Pick It Up, Make It Jump Song: DJ Zackkk's TikTok Sound
Who made the Pick It Up, Make It Jump song? DJ Zackkk's April 2026 TikTok sound, the lyric everyone quotes, how the trend grew and the songs it is not.
Oraclip Team
The “Pick It Up, Make It Jump” song behind the TikTok dance is not a chart single. It is an original sound that a Florida DJ, DJ Zackkk, uploaded to TikTok on 23 April 2026. Months later creators started dancing to it, and by the end of October it was one of the busiest dance sounds on the app. Here is who made the Pick It Up song, what the line actually is, how the trend grew, and how to tell it apart from the other songs called “Pick It Up”.
Want the dance without learning it? Make the Pick It Up dance from a photo.
Who made the Pick It Up song?
The dance videos run on a TikTok sound listed as “original sound – DJZACKKK”. DJ Zackkk posted it on 23 April 2026 as a 35-second clip. The caption is just emojis and hashtags, and Atlas Cloud, which traced the sound, reports “PICK IT UP TECO” written across the screen and a bio listing Dade County and Daytona Beach in Florida. On 10 November 2026 that first post had about 128,600 plays, far fewer than the dances made to it. That is common for TikTok sounds: the creator uploads the audio, and other people's videos make it famous.
Every dance post we checked credits the same sound, from the earliest hallway solo to the trio and duo takes in October.
What are the lyrics?
The line everyone quotes in their captions is “pick it up, make it jump, put yo hands up”. That chant is what people type into search when they cannot remember the name of the sound, which is why the dance is also called the Make It Jump dance or the Put Your Hands Up dance. We have not found an official lyric sheet for the clip, so treat any longer lyric transcription you see online as a fan transcription.
The chant may be older than the upload. Atlas Cloud found a TikTok post from 16 November 2025 that already used “Pick it up, make it jump” as its caption, over a different sound listed as “House Rules” by 1K NAE. So DJ Zackkk's upload is the sound of this wave, not necessarily where the words started.
How the Pick It Up trend grew
| Date | What happened |
|---|---|
| 23 Apr 2026 | DJ Zackkk posts the original sound on TikTok |
| 26 Sep 2026 | One of the earliest dance posts on the sound: a hallway solo by @cyber_kris1 captioned “Pick it up boo” |
| 3 Oct 2026 | @overlyyocean posts the night plaza solo that most tutorials and AI templates now copy |
| 16 Oct 2026 | A three-person take by @dtn.rayaaa, captioned with the full chant |
| 26 Oct 2026 | An office solo becomes the biggest post on the sound, with millions of plays (Atlas Cloud counted 4.4 million on 3 November) |
| Late Oct 2026 | AI versions spread: photo-to-video templates of people, babies and pets doing the routine |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Atlas Cloud counts about 16,700 videos on the sound page |
On 10 November 2026 the @overlyyocean take had about 723,000 plays, the @dtn.rayaaa trio about 1.2 million and the @cyber_kris1 solo about 463,000. Counts on TikTok change every day, so take these as a snapshot.
Pick It Up, Make It Jump is not these songs
Searching “Pick It Up song” brings up several unrelated tracks. None of them is the sound on the dance videos we checked:
- “Pick It Up” by Famous Dex featuring A$AP Rocky, the 2018 rap single.
- “Pick It Up” by ATEEZ, a K-pop track by the boy group.
- “Make It Jump (Pick It Up) [Jersey Club Remix]” by DJ J NICE, a separate single released on Apple Music on 10 August 2026.
- Other 2026 singles titled “PICK IT UP” on streaming services from different artists.
If you want the exact audio from the dance, use the sound in TikTok's sound picker rather than a streaming search.
How to use the sound in your own video
- Dancing it yourself? Tap the sound name on any Pick It Up dance video, then “Use this sound”. Learn the moves with our Pick It Up dance tutorial.
- Making the AI version? Make the clip from a photo on the Pick It Up Dance AI page. It comes with OraClip's own beat rather than DJ Zackkk's audio, so add the original sound in TikTok when you post and turn the clip's own audio down. Our guide to the AI version walks through it.
- Credit the sound. TikTok links the sound automatically when you use it from the picker, which also puts your video on the sound page.
Pick It Up song FAQ
Who sings Pick It Up, Make It Jump?
The TikTok dance uses an original sound uploaded by DJ Zackkk (@djzackkk) on 23 April 2026. The chant itself appeared in a TikTok caption in November 2025, over a different sound.
Is the Pick It Up TikTok song on Spotify?
We did not find DJ Zackkk's TikTok sound as a streaming release. A separate remix single, “Make It Jump (Pick It Up) [Jersey Club Remix]” by DJ J NICE, is on Apple Music.
Is it the ATEEZ or Famous Dex song?
No. Both are unrelated songs that share the title.
What dance goes with it?
A short routine on one spot: arms out, hands locked on the head, a turn to the back, a turn back to the front, a deep squat and a jump with both hands up. See the step-by-step tutorial.
Related dance trends
More TikTok dances you can make from a photo: the Jisoo Addicted dance, the Parking Lot dance AI and the Chipmunks dance. Browse every current trend on the Trends page.
Sources
- DJ Zackkk's original post on TikTok (post date, length and play count read on 10 November 2026)
- Dance posts by @overlyyocean, @cyber_kris1 and @dtn.rayaaa on TikTok (read on 10 November 2026)
- Atlas Cloud: Pick It Up Make It Jump Dance (the on-screen text, the bio, the November 2025 caption, the sound-page count and the office take)
- MakeViral: Pick It Up dance AI trend (the AI template timeline)
- DJ J NICE on Apple Music
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