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Party Up (Up in Here)

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Recorded
  
1999

Length
  
4:32

Genre
  
Hardcore hip hop

Label
  
Ruff Ryders, Def Jam

Released
  
June 6, 2000 (2000-06-06)

Format
  
12-inch single, CD single

"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.

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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.

  • 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 fiancĂ©e.
  • 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. [1]
  • 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).
  • Party Up was used in several trailers of the 2016 animated adult film Sausage Party.

    • Official versions

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

    • References

    Party Up (Up in Here) Wikipedia
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