Meaning
To stop a tune abruptly and restart it from the top, at the crowd's demand, because the track is hitting so hard the people must hear it again. Very close to a 'wheel-up', though 'pull up' stresses the sudden stop before the replay, it is a high mark of approval in the dance: to earn a pull-up is to have played or voiced something so good the selector has to run it back. Calls for 'pull up!' are the crowd's roar of delight at a killer tune.
Examples
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Pull up! Pull up! Come again!
Rewind it! Rewind it! Play it again!
A crowd chant when a tune drops well.
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Di selecta pull up di song pon di first bar.
The DJ stopped and restarted the song on the first bar.
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If di place full up, dem pull up.
If the crowd goes wild, they rewind it.
Origin
From 'pull up' in the sense of bringing something to a sudden halt, applied to yanking the record back to restart the tune.
How it’s used
Interchangeable with wheel-up in most settings. Both signal that a song is a hit with the crowd.