Up Down (Do This All Day)
"Up Down (Do This All Day)" is a song by American singer T-Pain featuring fellow American rapper B.o.B, released on August 13, 2013, as the first single from the former's Greatest Hits/compilation album, T-Pain Presents Happy Hour: The Greatest Hits (2014). Produced by DJ Mustard, the song peaked at number 62 and 43 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart respectively.
"Up Down (Do This All Day)"
Background[edit]
On August 13, 2013, T-Pain premiered "Up Down (Do This All Day)" (originally intended as the first single from his fifth studio album Stoicville: The Phoenix).[2] The song featured production by DJ Mustard and a guest appearance from rapper B.o.B.[3] It was then released to iTunes the same day.[4] Mustard's production is bouncy and synth based, with heavy use of the Roland 808 drum machine.[3][5]
In the song T-Pain professes his love for strippers and liquor. Rap-Up referred to the song as a strip club anthem.[2] T-Pain spoke on the song saying, "You know I'm the strip club king. It just goes like that, man. Basically, I'm just making another one. This is regular shit for me. I'm just going in!"[6]
Live performances[edit]
On January 14, 2014, T-Pain performed "Up Down (Do This All Day)" on DJ Skee's SKEE Live.[7] On January 16, 2014, T-Pain performed the song on The Arsenio Hall Show.[8]
Music video[edit]
On September 9, 2013, T-Pain released the lyric video to the song.[10][11] As the song plays, a number of strippers show off their assets and their dance moves. As they dance the lyrics flash across the screen in "neon, fitting, form, giving off a club like feel."[12] On November 19, 2013, T-Pain released the music video for "Up Down (Do This All Day)". The G Visuals-directed video follows the average ratchet backyard party.[13][14] It has been described as paying homage to early 1990s hip hop videos.[15][16] The video features a cameo appearance from Tyrese.[14]
Remix[edit]
On January 15, 2014, T-Pain previewed the remix via Instagram as he was working on it, it features a new instrumental by DJ Montay. The following day, T-Pain told Rap-Up that he wanted to get B.o.B, 2 Chainz, Snoop Dogg, Que, Jeezy, Rihanna and Andre 3000 featured on the remix.[17] T-Pain revealed on May 12, 2014 that there would be three official remixes for the song.[18] The first remix features rappers Lil Boosie and Kid Ink, along with T-Pain and B.o.B.[19] It was then released on May 14, 2014.[20]