In 2014, the song was featured in a commercial for the GEICO auto insurance company with a featured cameo appearance by Salt-N-Pepa themselves as part of the 'It's What You Do' campaign.

Additionally, both of the characters wear the jackets of Salt-N-Pepa while singing. In 2011, the song was featured in a season 4 episode of Chuck called Chuck Versus the Push Mix in a scene where the characters Lester Patel and Jeffrey Barnes portrayed by Vik Sahay and Scott Krinsky play the song while Ellie Bartowski portrayed by Sarah Lancaster, the sister of the title character is seen giving birth to her first child named Clara Woodcomb. In 2009, The song was covered on the musical television show Glee's first season episode ' Showmance' sung by Rachel Berry ( Lea Michele), Finn Hudson ( Cory Monteith), Artie Abrams ( Kevin McHale) and other glee club members.

The album ultimately sold 1.3 million copies worldwide. 'Push It' was nominated for a Grammy Award, and the strength of that single catapulted the reissued Hot, Cool and Vicious album to platinum sales in the US with one million sold, making Salt-N-Pepa the first female rap act (group or solo) to go gold or platinum. This song is written in the key of A minor Recognition and sales The whispered 'Push it' is sampled from a 1977 recording called 'Keep on Pushin'' by the band Coal Kitchen. The song quotes a line from ' You Really Got Me' by The Kinks, with the word 'girl' replaced with 'boy': 'Boy, you really got me goin'/You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'.' (For this, Ray Davies received a songwriting credit for 'Push It.') It also quotes 'Pick up on this' from ' I'm a Greedy Man' and 'There it is' from ' There It Is', both by James Brown. When the Cameron Paul remix of 'Push It' became a radio hit, the album was reissued with the 'Push It' remix added, along with the original versions of 'Tramp' and 'Chick on the Side' replaced by remixes. The original 1986 editions of the album Hot, Cool & Vicious did not contain 'Push It'.

It also ties with ' Let's Talk About Sex' as the group's highest-charting UK hit, with both peaking at number two in that country. It advanced into the Billboard Top 40 the week of December 26, 1987, eventually reaching its peak of number 19 the week of February 20, 1988. The corresponding 7' single contained a 'Mixx-It' remix by San Francisco DJ and producer Cameron Paul this was the radio version that gave the group its first mainstream hit. The original version of 'Push It' was first released as the B-side to the 12' single 'Tramp' in 1987.

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