Stand Up

Recorded in 2003 at Audio Vision Studios in Miami, Doppler Studios in Atlanta, and Tree Sound Studios in Norcross, Georgia. Kanye West produced the track, Ludacris served as co-producer, Shawnna provided the featured vocals, and the release credits Robert Hannon, Eddie Hernandez, Jason Rome, and Jimmy Douglass among the key studio personnel. Released as a single from Chicken-n-Beer, it became Ludacris's first Billboard Hot 100 number one and his breakout crossover pop hit. The record helped define his early-2000s mainstream peak and paired his rowdy punchlines with Kanye West's big-sounding production. The song remains one of Ludacris's signature records and a durable early Kanye West production credit. It is still remembered as the track that turned Ludacris into a Hot 100 chart-topping act and kept the single in rotation across later retrospectives and sample databases.