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“It's Goin' Down” by X-Ecutioners featuring Linkin Park

From the album Built From Scratch (2001) Featuring Linkin Park

“It's Goin' Down” by X-Ecutioners featuring Linkin Park appears on 15 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 2002 and 2004. It was first released in 2001 on the album Built From Scratch. Its best result is #19 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #52 alternative song of 2002 and #477 of the '00s.

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It's Goin' Down (feat. Mike Shinoda and Mr. Hahn) - Linkin Park

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The X-Ecutioners put their names on "It's Goin' Down", but plenty of people have taken it for a Linkin Park track, and it's easy to see why. Mike Shinoda wrote it, produced it and raps on it, and Joe Hahn joins the turntablists on the decks. It was the only single from their second album, Built From Scratch.

The sound is a scratch-heavy collision of hip-hop and rap metal: cuts spin and stutter over a grinding riff while Shinoda barks the verses. It samples Xzibit's "Year 2000" and two old Linkin Park demos, "Step Up" and "Dedicated", and the chorus hails the crew as the "X-Men", the name they had to drop to avoid a copyright fight. In Britain it went to number seven.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2002	91	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2002	107
2002	74	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2002	91
2002	19	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002	106
2002	82	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2002	101
2002	47	WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2002	100
2002	50	K-Rock New York, NY	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2002	92
2002	37	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2002	100
2002	51	107.7 The End Seattle, WA	The End Top 107 Songs of 2002	107
2002	64	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2002	89
2002	58	Y100 Philadelphia, PA	Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2002	100
2002	68	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2002	99
2002	42	Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT	WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 2002	104
2002	27	103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL	Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2002	103
2002	50	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2002	99

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2004	165	Q101	Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004)	300

Also listed as: Its Goin' Down; It's Goin Down; It's Going Down.

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