Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
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| Single by Puff Daddy featuring Mase from the album No Way Out | |||||
| Released | January 1997 (U.S.)</smal | ||||
| Format | CD single, CD maxi-single, cassette single, 7" single, 12 inch single | ||||
| Recorded | 1996 | ||||
| Genre | Rap | ||||
| Label | Bad Boy Records | ||||
| Writer | Sean "Puffy" Combs Steve Jordan Carlos Broady Nasheim Myrick Mason Betha Greg Prestopino Matthew Wilder Sylvia Robinson Melvin Glover Clifton Chase Edward Fletcher | ||||
| Producer | Carlos Broady Nashiem Myrick Sean "Puffy" Combs Stevie J. | ||||
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"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" is a hip-hop song by Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs featuring Ma$e. It appears on Combs' debut album No Way Out and it was released as the first single in 1997.
Combs was already a successful songwriter, producer and record label owner (Bad Boy Records) before he released his debut album as a performer. His first U.S. chart single, "No Time", was a top-twenty hit for Lil' Kim on which Puff Daddy was credited as a featured vocalist. "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" was the debut chart appearance for Atlanta-based rapper Ma$e.
The song combines elements of several previous singles, the most obvious being a slowed-down rhythm track sampled from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message". The track's chorus is an interpolation of "Break My Stride", a top-five single by Matthew Wilder from 1983.
"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at number thirty-two in early 1997 and eventually spent six weeks at number one. It was the beginning of Combs' and Bad Boy Records' chart domination during the year — the Combs-produced "Hypnotize" by The Notorious B.I.G. would follow this song at number one, and the B.I.G. tribute song "I'll Be Missing You" spent eleven weeks at number one during the summer, only to be followed by another B.I.G. song, "Mo Money Mo Problems" and then the Combs-produced "Honey" by Mariah Carey.
The albums from Combs, Ma$e, B.I.G. and Carey would also dominate the top slots of the Billboard 200 during this time as well.
The packaging for the single said that the song was from the upcoming album "Hell Up In Harlem"
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| Preceded by "Wannabe" by Spice Girls | Billboard Hot 100 number-one single March 22 1997- April 26 1997 | Succeeded by "Hypnotize" by The Notorious B.I.G. |
| Preceded by "In My Bed" by Dru Hill | Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks number one single March 8 1997 | Succeeded by "In My Bed" by Dru Hill |
Sean Combs | |
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| Albums | No Way Out · Forever · The Saga Continues... · We Invented the Remix Vol. 1 · Press Play · We Invented the Remix Vol. 2 |
| Singles | "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" · "I'll Be Missing You" · "It's All About the Benjamins" · "Been Around the World" · "Victory" · "Come with Me" · "P.E. 2000" · "Satisfy You" · "Best Friend" · "Bad Boy for Life" · "Diddy" · "I Need a Girl, Part I" · "I Need a Girl, Part II" · "Special Delivery (Remix)" · "Come to Me" · "Tell Me" · "Last Night" · "Through the Pain (She Told Me)" · "Diddy Rock" |
| Related articles | Discography · Grammy Awards · Bad Boy Records |
