"Stand Up" is a song by Ludacris, released as the second
official single in 2003, and taken from his fourth album
Chicken-n-Beer. It was his first number-one single, with
production by Kanye West and co-production by Ludacris
himself.
The chorus consists of three repetitions of Ludacris
rapping, "When I move you move" and Shawnna responding "Just
like that". After three repetitions, Ludacris says "Hell yeah,
hey, DJ, bring that back" Then Shawnna says, "When I move you
move" and Ludacris says "Just like that" and they trade parts
of the chorus.
It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of December 6,
2003. Ludacris went on to be nominated for a Grammy Award for
Best Rap Solo Performance. The song remains Ludacris and
Shawnna's biggest hit single to date. It reached numbber three
in the UK.
A music video was made for the song, directed by Dave
Meyers. Film critic Armond White called the video a
"masterpiece" that "conveys the urge of life". The video has
been referred to as a "Ludacris acid trip".
He enters a night club with a midget painted silver as a
medallion on his necklace. This video also features disabled
people in wheel chairs dancing. He appears with a giant shoe
which stomps hard enough that the impact takes people off their
feet. Young women munch on giant chicken legs and Ludacris
chugs out of a huge beer bottle almost his size.A club girl who
has no other top other than a designer bra who has been
chastised for her model looks by women who spilled drinks on
her cleavage is irresistible to Ludacris.She is a seductress
who is took off guard by Ludacris who kisses her beer drenched
breast that appeal to his alcoholic ways. The young lady soon
takes great ecstasy in this. Like other club goers she too has
had her share of the cartoonishly big servings that are now
straining her metabolism. Ludacris kissing her on the mouth
with his beer covered lips is the tipping point causing her
adolescent like derriere and thighs to grow immensely . She is
brought down a peg and and her buttocks turning more
ambiguously mature destroy her innocent like front.Although a
seductress she refuses to have the appearance of the
stigmatized "ghetto booty" and frantically shakes her
gelatinous rear in a attempt to renounce it. A close up reveals
her skinny jeans have turned into low riders. Fortunately her
dancing causing her "booty" to deflate. She is seen again
happily dancing with still wide but not protruding cheeks and
finally back to normal. Her jeans however, which started off
skintight now have a bit of slack. She laughs the incident off
as Ludacris wipes off his lips. The scene ,according to White,
was a spoof of the girl dancer in a sweater that says Hollywood
in the Nelly "Hot in Herre" video who complains of her butt
seeming to get bigger. At the end of the video Ludacris is
portrayed as a child with a huge afro and nothing on but a
diaper dancing in the club's child drop off area. A female
toddler in a diaper turns her head and is shocked by the sight
of the Ludacris toddler's antics. Her face is just like the one
of the seductress , further implying the true whorish nature of
the "booty" girl earlier. He later has his diaper changed and
pees on the woman doing it.
An official remix was also recorded, in which Ludacris'
third verse was removed and replaced with a verse from Kanye
West. The remix appeared on the
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Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered the
song as a lounge-style version on his 2004 album
I'd Like a Virgin.
Ludacris also made a remix of the song for the Atlanta
Falcons.