- Party Up
Infobox Single
Name = Party Up
B-side=
Artist = DMX
from Album =...And Then There Was X
Released =2000
Format =12-inch single
Recorded = 1999
Genre = Hip hop, Crunk
Length = 4:37
Label =Ruff Ryders
Writer = E. Simmons
Producer =Swizz Beatz
Certification =
Last single = "What's My Name?"
(1999)
This single = "Party Up"
(2000)
Next single = "We Right Here "
(2001)"Party Up" is a song by rapper DMX. It is DMX's most well known song and is from his best selling album "...And Then There Was X ", released in 1999. The track is his highest-charting song to date, reaching #27 on theBillboard Hot 100 . [ [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=DMX&sql=11:kvfrxqu5ldje~T51 allmusic ((( DMX > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))] ] The track is featured on the introduction ofDave Chappelle 's "Killing Them Softly" stand-up routine, and on the computer game "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 ". It is featured on the video game "All-Star Baseball 2004" as one of the batter walk-ups. There are three versions of the song: an explicit/album version; a censored album version, and a radio/video edit version. The song is also used in the video game "Def Jam Vendetta ".Trivia
Michael Phelps listens to "Party Up" before his races, particularly his first world record and before he made the US Olympic Team. [http://www.usolympicteam.com/26_817.htm US Olympic Team, Phelps Biography]The video for "Party Up" was filmed in
Galveston ,Texas at what is presently the Frost Bank building.The song appears on the soundtrack of the movie "
Gone In 60 Seconds " (2000 ); it plays on the car radio of a stolenHumvee trying to evade the police.The song is also featured in "
How High ", a film starringRedman andMethod Man , and the movies "Like Mike ", "King's Ransom ", Hardball and "First Sunday ".The song also appeared in an episode of the television show "Malcolm in the Middle".
After the
Los Angeles Lakers won theNBA championship in 2000, in the locker-room, they were singing the song.The song takes shots at rapper
Kurupt , for dissing him on "Callin Out Names" over DMX having an affair withFoxy Brown , Kurupt's once fiance.References
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