It's Goin' Down (Yung Joc song)

Infobox Single
Name = It's Goin' Down


Artist = Yung Joc featuring Nitti
from Album = New Joc City
B-side =
Released = March 2006
Format = Digital download
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Southern Hip Hop, Hip Hop, Snap Music
Length = 4:01
Label = Atlantic/Bad Boy South
Writer = Moore, Chadron/Robinson, Jasiel
Producer = Nitti
Certification = 3x Platinum (U.S.) [Billboard.com. [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/riaa/singles.jsp "RIAA Certification"] , retrieved May 26 2006]
Chronology = Yung Joc singles
Last single = -
This single = "It's Goin' Down"
(2006)
Next single = "I Know You See It"
(2006)

"It's Goin' Down" is the first single from Yung Joc's debut album "New Joc City", and is produced by and features Nitti. The song is part of the snap genre, popular in hip-hop music from the Southern United States. In the video, people are seen snapping their fingers but no one is shown doing the dance. Instead, people are shown doing Yung Joc's dance the "Joc-in" which is also called "The Motorcycle". (Tom Cruise famously failed to pull off the dance move once on BET.)WWE's JTG has been seen doing this dance during his entrance and in matches. It was voted the #1 song of 2006 on MTV2's Sucker Free Countdown. It also was voted number 1 on BET's 106 & Park. It is also #1 on BET's Top 100 Songs of 2006. It was nominated at the 2007 Grammy awards for best rap song but lost to Money Maker by Ludacris.

However, it won a place on Rolling Stone's annual 100 Best Songs of the Year, ranking at a respectable #79, in the 2006 edition.

3 remixes were made for this song: one featuring Cam'ron, Rick Ross, Slim Thug, & Jody Breeze, one featuring Trae & the other by Lil Wayne, Rick Ross & Currency.

Chart performance

The single performed very well in the U.S. It peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at number 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for 8 weeks becoming 2006's second longest run at number 1 behind Mary J. Blige's Be Without You which had 15 weeks at the summit. It also peaked at number 1 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart. This is Yung Joc's second most successful song, behind "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')", which he featured in alongside T-Pain.

Charts

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