“Party Up” by DMX

"Party Up (Up in Here)" was the second single from DMX's third album, ...And Then There Was X, and it became the biggest American single of his career. DMX wrote it with Swizz Beatz, who produced it, and the thing is pure barked, brawling adrenaline, a rap record that sounds like a fight breaking out in the best way.

It earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance, losing to Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady". The video, shot at the Frost Bank building in Galveston, Texas, casts DMX as the wrong man caught up in a bank robbery. It spilled into sports culture too: the Los Angeles Lakers were caught singing the hook after closing out the Indiana Pacers in the 2000 NBA Finals, and Rolling Stone later put it at number 388 among the greatest songs of all time.

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