Ridin'

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"Ridin'"

Single by Chamillionaire
from the album The Sound of Revenge
Released	March 2006 USA September 2006 U.K
Format	CD single 7" single
Genre	Rap
Length	4:08
Label	Universal/Chamillitary
Writer(s)	H. Seriki, J. Salinas, O. Salinas, A. Henderson
Producer(s)	Play-N-Skillz
Chart positions
#1 (US Billboard Hot 100) #1 (Piczo) #2 (US Rap Charts) #2 (UK Singles Chart) #2 (New Zealand Singles Chart) #3 (Irish Singles Chart) #9 (US R&B/Hip-Hop Charts) #24 (Australian Singles Chart) #52 (Canadian BDS Airplay Chart)
Chamillionaire singles chronology
"Turn It Up" (2005)	"Ridin'" (2006)	"Grown and Sexy" (2006)
Krayzie Bone singles chronology
"Get'chu Twisted" (2005)	"Ridin'" (2006)	"Spit Your Game" (2006)

Ridin' is the second single from Chamillionaire's album, The Sound of Revenge. The lyrics concern racial profiling, police brutality, and air pollution, as well as the stereotyping of Black Americans driving a vehicle with drugs or other contraband on the inside ("riding dirty"). The music video attempts to create a sense of the police abusing their powers despite the singer admitting to various lesser crimes including driving under the influence, juxtaposing police actions with wrestling scenes to show how the police allegedly treat suspects. The video also has cameo appearances by Tom Lister Jr., Play-N-Skillz, Chingo Bling, OG Ron C, and Chamillionaire's younger brother Rasaq.

Ridin' was recently awarded "Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group" at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. It was nominated for Best Rap Song. It Became Number One In December On The Piczo Chart 3 Months After Its Physical Release.

UK - CD: 1

"Ridin'" (radio edit)
"Ridin'" (album version)

UK - CD: 2

"Ridin'" (album version)
"Ridin'" (Chingo Bling Remix) Mexican version of White & Nerdy
"Ridin'" (UK remix) (featuring Sway)
"Ridin'" (instrumental)
"Ridin'" (video)

1 Remixes
2 Mixtape version
3 Trivia
4 Charts
5 References

[edit] Remixes

There have been multiple remixes of "Ridin'" getting radio airplay. The remixes feature UGK, Papoose, Akon, Jae Millz, The Game, and DJ Quik. The purpose of the remixes are to represent locations. For example, the track with UGK talks about Houston's HPD. The remix with Jae Millz and Papoose describe the NYPD and the mix featuring The Game and veteran DJ Quik describes the west coast's infamous LAPD. The track with Rhode Island rapper K.B, itself a remix of the unofficial Trae remix, is a general diss to police which mentions the Providence PD and the RI State Police. A remix with Akon, "Ridin Overseas" was released on Chamillionaires mixtape "Mixtape Messiah 2".

The remixes feature the following artists:

Houston Remix (official) - UGK
New York Remix (official) - Papoose & Jae Millz
West Coast Remix (official) - The Game & DJ Quik
Ridin' Overseas (official) - Akon
New Zealand Remix (official) - Tyree (Australia & New Zealand Bonus Track)
Remix (unofficial) - Trae
Remix (unofficial) - K.B, Trae

[edit] Mixtape version

Chamillionaire's Mixtape Messiah pt. 2 features a "sequel" to Ridin', titled Ridin Overseas. The track was produced by Akon, who sings the hook of the song.

[edit] Trivia

This song was being played Houston's urban radio stations as early as September 2005, a year before its national release.
The song is played after Houston Astros victories.
On January 9, 2007, ABC News chief White House correspondent Martha Raddatz's phone rang during a White House press briefing, with Ridin' as its ringtone, leading White House Press Secretary Tony Snow to ask the assembled press "Does Martha have a hip-hop ring tone?" and to exclaim "Play that funky music, white girl."^[1]
On July 17, 2006, Chamillionaire announced via bulletin on his official MySpace page that American parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic recorded a parody of "Ridin'" for his new album Straight Outta Lynwood (released on September 26, 2006). The parody, called "White & Nerdy" also featured a music video and was released as the lead single from the album. Chamillionaire stated in an interview that he enjoyed the parody of the song written by Yankovic, and was pleasantly surprised by Yankovic's rapping ability.
Major League Baseball players Ryan Zimmerman, Brandon Inge, Xavier Nady, Juan Encarnación, Joe Mauer, Mike Cameron, Orlando Cabrera, Andruw Jones, and Ken Griffey, Jr. walk to the plate with this song playing in the stadium.
In the music video, when the lyric "Next to the PlayStation controller" is sung, the woman is actually holding an Xbox controller.
In the second episode of Rob & Big the song was playing while Big was being pulled over for tint in the front window, and Rob started jumping around singing the song.
"Ridin" appeared in one episode of "CSI: Miami" as a suspect was driving around.
"Ridin'" appeared at #6 on BET's "Top 100 Music Videos Of 2006"
"Ridin' Dirty" is the title of the 1996 album by UGK. Chamillionaire often cites this as one of his all time favorite records.
In the movie Little Man, "Ridin'" can be heard in Percy's car when he's coming to pick up Calvin.

[edit] Charts

U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Position	88	73	57	36	27	21	17	13	12	4	4	4	3	1	1	2	4	5	7	7
Week	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Position	9	11	14	23	24	28	33	35	40	46	47

UK Singles Chart^[2]
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Position	19	2	3	6	10	14	15	22	26	24	32	41	57	54	49	57	67	69

Australian ARIA Singles Chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15
Position	33	36	37	31	29	34	38	28	28	25	29	31	24	33	38

Preceded by "SOS" by Rihanna	Billboard Hot 100 number one single June 3, 2006 - June 17, 2006	Succeeded by "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean

Preceded by "Chain Hang Low" by Jibbs	Piczo Top 50 number one single December 30, 2006 - January 5, 2007	Succeeded by "Proper Education" by Eric Prydz vs. Floyd