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	Hip Hop, East Coast Rap
Length	4:32
Label	Ruff Ryders, Def Jam
Writer(s)	Earl Simmons & Kasseem Dean
Producer	Swizz Beatz
DMX singles chronology
"What's My Name?" (1999) "Party Up (Up in Here)" (2000) "We Right Here" (2001)

"Party Up (Up in Here)" is a song by rapper DMX. It is one of DMX's more recognizable songs and is from his album ...And Then There Was X, released in 1999. The track is his highest-charting song to date, reaching #27 on the Billboard Hot 100. There are three versions of the song: an explicit/album version; a censored album version, and a radio/video edit version.

In popular culture

• Michael Phelps listens to "Party Up" before his races, particularly his first world record and before he made the US Olympic Team.^{[citation needed]}
• The video for "Party Up" was filmed in Galveston, Texas at what is presently the Frost Bank building.^{[citation needed]}
• 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 also featured in How High, a film starring Redman and Method Man, as well as the movies Like Mike, King's Ransom, Hardball, First Sunday and Zack and Miri Make a Porno
• The song also appeared in episodes of the television shows Malcolm in the Middle, Eastbound and Down and King of Queens.
• After the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA 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 with Foxy Brown, Kurupt's former fiance.
• 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 film Like Mike, Bow Wow's and Morris Chestnut's characters sing the song in the car.
• The censored version is also used in the video games, Def Jam Vendetta and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004.
• In GB's book Skool Daze, one of the characters from Croydon sings the song down the street after he passed his theory test.

Official Versions

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

Chart positions

Peak positions

Chart	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	8
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Singles	11
U.S. Billboard Pop Songs	39

End of year charts

End of year chart (2000)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	71