"It's Goin' Down" is a single by turntablists The X-Ecutioners, from their 2002 debut album Built From Scratch.
It features Mike Shinoda and Joseph Hahn from the band Linkin Park. The video for the track also features cameos from Linkin Park's Rob Bourdon on drums, Phoenix on bass, and Static-X's Wayne Static on guitar, though they do not appear in the recorded song. In the music video, Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson and vocalist Chester Bennington can be spotted, as well as other well-known musicians.
The song was written by Mike Shinoda, Joseph Hahn, and the X-Ecutioners; it features samples of the Xzibit song "Year 2000" and Linkin Park's demo tracks "Step Up" and "Dedicated". "It's Goin' Down" was produced by Mike Shinoda.
During the DJ Scratching in the second half of the song, you can clearly hear the voice saying "X-men 'bout to blast off world wide" which is their former name for the group, but changed to The X-Ecutioners due to copyright infringement.
Linkin Park has performed this song often in 2002 - 2004. They also collaborated with Snoop Dogg in one performance in which he said a few verses from "Gin and Juice".
"It's Goin' Down" is the first single from Yung Joc's debut album New Joc City, and is produced by and features Nitti. The song is part of the snap genre, popular in hip-hop music from the Southern United States. In the video, people are seen snapping their fingers but no one is shown doing the dance. Instead, people are shown doing Yung Joc's dance the "Joc-in" which is also called "The Motorcycle". WWE's JTG has been seen doing this dance during his entrance and in matches. It was voted the #1 song of 2006 on MTV2's Sucker Free Countdown. It also was voted number 1 on BET's 106 & Park. It is also #1 on BET's Top 100 Songs of 2006. It was nominated at the 2007 Grammy awards for best rap song but lost to Money Maker by Ludacris. 3 remixes were made for this song: one featuring Cam'ron, Rick Ross, Slim Thug, & Jody Breeze, one featuring Trae & the other by Lil Wayne, Rick Ross & Currency
