It's Goin' Down (X-Ecutioners song)

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“It's Goin' Down”
“It's Goin' Down” cover
Single by The X-Ecutioners featuring Mike Shinoda and Mr. Hahn of Linkin Park
from the album Built From Scratch
Released March 2002
Format CD/ Vinyl
Genre Hip hop
Turntablism
Rapcore
Length 4:08 (Album Version)
3:32 (Radio Version)
Label Loud Records, Sony BMG
Producer Mike Shinoda
The X-Ecutioners singles chronology
"Música Negra (Black Music)/Wordplay"
(1997)
"It's Goin Down"
(2002)
Linkin Park singles chronology
"In the End"
(2001)
"It's Goin Down"
(2002)
"Pts.OF.Athrty"
(2002)

"It's Goin' Down" is a single by turntablists The X-Ecutioners and Linkin Park, 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".

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD

  1. "It's Goin' Down"
  2. "X-Ecution Of A Bum Rush" (Explicit)
  3. "Play That Beat (Low Fidelity All-Stars Remix)" (Explicit)

[edit] Vinyl

Side A

  1. "It's Goin' Down" (Radio Edit)
  2. "It's Goin' Down" (Instrumental)

Side B

  1. "The X-Ecutioners (Theme) Song - Featuring Dan the Automator" (Explicit)
  2. "It's Goin' Down" (Scratchapella)
  • On LP Underground v4.0, one of the tracks is a live medley consisting of Step Up (From Hybrid Theory EP), Nobody's Listening (From Meteora), and It's Goin' Down. It is entitled Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down (Live) and was also performed during Projekt Revolution 2004 during the Linkin Park performance