It's Goin' Down (X-Ecutioners song)

Single infobox
Name = It's Goin' Down


Artist = The X-Ecutioners featuring Mike Shinoda and Mr. Hahn of Linkin Park
from Album = Built From Scratch
Released = March 2002
Format = CD/ Vinyl
Recorded =
Genre = Hip hop
Turntablism
Rapcore
Length = 4:08 (Album Version)
3:32 (Radio Version)
Label = Loud Records, Sony BMG
Producer = Mike Shinoda
Chart position =
* #7 (UK)
* #28 (AUS)
Reviews =
Chronology = The X-Ecutioners singles
Last single = "Música Negra (Black Music)/Wordplay"
(1997)
This single = "It's Goin Down"
(2002)
Next single =
Misc = Extra chronology
Artist = Linkin Park singles
Last single = "In the End"
(2001)
This single = "It's Goin Down"
(2002)
Next single = "Pts.OF.Athrty"
(2002)

"It's Goin' Down" is a single credited to turntablists The X-Ecutioners featuring Mike Shinoda and Joseph Hahn. It appears on the X-Ecutioners 2002 debut album "Built From Scratch".

While the song is foremost credited to the X-Ecutioners, it was written and performed primarily by Shinoda and Hahn of the band Linkin Park. It was also produced by Shinoda. The song includes samples of the Xzibit song "Year 2000" and Linkin Park's demo tracks "Step Up" and "Dedicated." During the DJ scratching of the song's bridge, one can clearly hear the phrase "X-Men 'bout to blast off worldwide," X-Men being the former name of the X-Ecutioners which was changed due to copyright infringement.

Linkin Park performed "It's Goin' Down" often in 2002 - 2004. They also collaborated with Snoop Dogg in one performance in which he said a few verses from "Gin and Juice."

Music video

The music video for "It's Goin' Down" also features Linkin Park's Rob Bourdon on drums, Phoenix on bass, and Static-X's Wayne Static on guitar; although, they were not included in the recorded song. Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson and vocalist Chester Bennington can also be spotted, as well as other well-known musicians.

"It's Goin' Down" also has various camera effects like Shinoda, the song's sole vocalist, leaving one side of the screen and immediately returning from the other. He also repeatedly slaps the side of the camera, causing a slight vibrating impact effect.

Track listing

CD

#"It's Goin' Down"
#"X-Ecution of a Bum Rush" (Explicit)
#"Play That Beat (Low Fidelity All-Stars Remix)" (Explicit)

Vinyl

Side A
#"It's Goin' Down" (Radio Edit)
#"It's Goin' Down" (Instrumental)

Side B
#"The X-Ecutioners (Theme) Song - Featuring Dan the Automator" (Explicit)
#"It's Goin' Down" (Scratchapella)

*On "LP Underground 4.0", one of the tracks is a live medley consisting of "Step Up" (from the "Hybrid Theory "EP), "Nobody's Listening" (from "Meteora"), and "It's Goin' Down." It is entitled "Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down (Live)" and was also performed on Projekt Revolution 2004 during the Linkin Park performance