Party Up (Up in Here)

"Party Up (Up in Here)"
Single by DMX
from the album ...And Then There Was X
Released	June 6, 2000
Format	12-inch single, CD single
Recorded	1999
Genre	East Coast hip hop
Length	4:32
Label	Ruff Ryders, Def Jam
Writer(s)	Earl Simmons, Kasseem Dean
Producer(s)	Swizz Beatz
DMX singles chronology
"What These Bitches Want" (2000) "Party Up (Up in Here)" (2000) "Don't You Ever?" (2000)
Music video "Party Up (Up in Here)" on YouTube

"Party Up (Up in Here)" is a song by American hip hop recording artist DMX, released as the second single from his third album ...And Then There Was X (1999) and is his highest charting and most successful single ever. There are three versions of the song: an explicit/album version; a censored album version, and a radio/video edit version. The song was voted number 56 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '00s.^[1]

Music video

The music video depicts DMX as being caught up in a case of mistaken identity at a bank holdup. The video premiered on the week of April 3, 2000.^[2]

In popular culture

• The song appears on the soundtrack of the movie Gone In 60 Seconds (2000); it plays on the car radio of a stolen Humvee trying to evade the police.
• The song is featured in How High, a film starring Redman and Method Man, as well as the movies King's Ransom, Coyote Ugly, Hardball, First Sunday, Broken City, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Central Intelligence, and Ghostbusters.
• The song appeared in episodes of the television shows Malcolm in the Middle, Eastbound and Down, King of Queens and Daria.
• After the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA championship in 2000, they sang the song in the locker room.
• The song takes shots at rapper Kurupt for dissing him on "Callin Out Names" over DMX having an affair with Foxy Brown, Kurupt's former fiancée.
• The song is featured in the beginning of Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly, a Dave Chappelle comedy special.
• Professional wrestler Elix Skipper came out to a knock-off/interpretation of the song (with his own lyrics) as his entrance music while in WCW, following in the footsteps of pro wrestlers such as Diamond Dallas Page & Chris Jericho, who also used knock-offs of popular songs as entrance themes.
• In one scene from the 2002 family film Like Mike, Lil Bow Wow's and Morris Chestnut's characters sing along to the chorus in the car.
• The censored version is also used in the video games, Def Jam Vendetta and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004.
• The song is also used as the Nashville Predators' power play song.
• Lin-Manuel Miranda references the song in "Meet Me Inside," a duet in his musical Hamilton (musical).^[3]
• The song is also used in several trailers of Seth Rogen's 2016 animated film Sausage Party.

Official versions

• LP Version / Album Version - Explicit
• Radio Edit
• Instrumental

Chart positions

Weekly charts Chart (2000) Peak position US Billboard Hot 100[4] 27 US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[5] 8 US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard)[6] 11 US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[7] 7

Year-end charts Chart (2000) Position US Billboard Hot 100[8] 71

References

1. Anderson, Kyle (September 29, 2011). "U2, Rihanna, Amy Winehouse, Foo Fighters fill out VH1's '100 Greatest Songs of the '00s'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
2. "DMX - "Party Up"". Mvdbase. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
3. Miranda, Lin-Manuel (2016). Hamilton: The Revolution. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 1455539740.
4. "DMX – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for DMX.
5. "DMX – Chart history" Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for DMX.
6. "DMX – Chart history" Billboard Hot Rap Songs for DMX.
7. "DMX – Chart history" Billboard Pop Songs for DMX.
8. "Billboard Top 100 - 2000". Retrieved 2010-08-31.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics