Released: January 11, 1996

Featuring: Tha Dogg Pound

Songwriter: Dalvin DeGrate K-Ci Hailey JoJo Hailey Kurupt Daz Dillinger

Producer: Daz Dillinger

[Intro: Daz Dillinger]
Yeah, ha ha
Yeah, funky fresh in the flesh
Dogg Pound and Jodeci
Right back up in ya with some of that gangsta sh...
Check it out

[Verse 1: K-Ci]
Everybody grab somebody
Turn this mutha into a party
Fellas take a lady's hand
Ladies go and choose your man
There's no need to be afraid
Friday night, let's all get paid
Positive is the attitude
Negative is not the mood

[Chorus: Jodeci & K-Ci]
Get on up
(Get on up, get on up)
You gotta get on up now
(Let's say it again, come on)
Get on up
(Get on up now, oh)
You gotta get on up now
(Oh, ooh, ooh)

[Verse 2: JoJo]
Now that everybody's movin'
Everybody in here is groovin'
Everything is alright
The atmospherе is so nice
The DJ is doin' his duty
All the ladiеs shakin' their booty
And the night is still young
And the party's just beginning

[Chorus: Jodeci & K-Ci]
Get on up
And you can't sit down
You gotta get on up now
And you can't sit down
Get on up
And you can't sit down
You gotta get on up now
And you can't sit down
Get on up
And you can't sit down
You gotta get on up now
And you can't sit down
(Wave your hands in the air)
Get on up
(Come on, come on, come on)
And you can't sit down
You gotta get on up now
And you can't sit down

[Verse 3: Daz Dillinger]
I'm in the house, y'all; I'm in the house, y'all
Young Daz and Kurupt still in effect, y'all
So freak freak, y'all, and to the beat, y'all
And who's the gang they love? It's DP, y'all
Uh, I gotta battle 'cause it's alright with me
Dogg Pound out, hardcore mentality
Who wanna battle? Let the spolight shine, the mic's mine
The crowd's mine when I be bustin' a rhyme
Be careful, amateurs, when The Row pass by
Lyrical drive-by, don't get mistaken for another
You ain't so def when you bustin' a rhyme in 9-6
I gots to chill and get mine, get live

[Bridge: Jodeci, K-Ci, Daz]
Come on
A-to the beat, y'all
Gotta get on up now
A-freak freak, y'all, uh, check it out, check it out
Party
Party, party all day, baby
All day
Don't you never, never, never, never, never stop
Never stop
Oh oh, oh oh
Never stop
(Oh)

[Chorus: Jodeci & K-Ci]
And you can't sit down
You gotta get on up now
And you can't sit down
Don't you let nothin' hold you down

[Verse 4: Kurupt]
I hits the spot like Tony Montana, with a fat Havana
I gets blazed 'cause the profit made
Stackin' more green than David Banner
The poetical scanner, the rock from Louisiana
To Philly to L.A. to Alabama
D.C., Tennessee, Russia to Atlanta, the graphic grammar
So what life's about, livin' it nice
Learnin' how to — and break — on dice
I rock spots, liable to snatch rivals and not blocks
Rock instrumentals, gettin' sentimental with Deborah Cox
Whoever's not near the top, on the top
And drop superior plots for fortune and fame, that's not
How the four hops
— oppose me on mics, I'm lethal, I bust like Glocks
Dogg Pound get party pumped like amps
Doggs in blue came to invade camps

[Outro: Jodeci]
Nothin' but a party, y'all, nothin' but a party, y'all
Nothin' but a party, y'all, nothin' but a party, y'all

Jodeci

Started in 1983, Jodeci is comprised of two sets of brothers—Cedric and Joel Hailey (also known as K-Ci and JoJo) and Donald and Dalvin Degrate (also known as DeVante Swing and Mr. Dalvin). Jodeci were once known as the “bad boys of R&B,” notable particularly because they were actually boys at the time, breaking out as teenagers in 1991 with their debut album and its title ballad, “Forever My Lady.” Natives of North Carolina, they were discovered by Heavy D, who overheard their demo when an A&R at Uptown was in the process of passing on them. Heavy D introduced Jodeci to Uptown founder Andre Harrell, who signed them after they sang in his office, and handed them off to his then-protégé Puff Daddy, who outfitted the group in dark shades and coordinating leather ensembles. The look, along with the streetwise soul found in songs like “Cry 4 U” and “Feenin” (as well as a few run-ins with the law) made them the antithesis to good-guy personas of then-peaking R&B superstars Boyz II Men. Devante, who along with Mr. Dalvin held down production duties for the group, founded the Swing Mob, a collective responsible for the discovery of musical geniuses like Timbaland, Missy Elliott, and Static Major. As a group, Jodeci would go on to release three critically-acclaimed album in the ‘90s, before disappearing from the limelight. K-Ci and JoJo splintered off as a duo in 1997, producing hit single “All My Life” and, eventually, five albums, but adoring fans never let go of their Jodeci obsession. In March, the group released The Past, The Present, The Future, the first Jodeci album in two decades. Jodeci, if y'all reading this, where’d you go?