On April 20, 2004, Suburban Noize Records released Fire It Up, the fifth studio album by American hip hop group Kottonmouth Kings. “Get Up” was one of its tracks. Four months later the song came back on a second record, the solo debut by the group’s frontman, Daddy X.
That second home gives the song its odd history. It belongs to the Kottonmouth Kings catalog, and it also sits on Organic Soul, a record released in the late summer of 2004 under the singer’s own name.
Who wrote it
On Fire It Up, “Get Up” runs 3:48. It is credited to Xavier, Miller, McNutt, Luiz Gaez and Carrion. Xavier is Daddy X, born Thomas Bradford Xavier on February 20, 1965, an American hip hop producer and rapper. He was the frontman for Kottonmouth Kings, Humble Gods, Doggy Style, Double Freak and X-Pistols. He also produced Fire It Up with Mike Kumagai, and the album was recorded in 2003 and 2004.
The Organic Soul version
Organic Soul came out on August 24, 2004, on Suburban Noize Records, the label Daddy X co-founded. The 19-track album runs just over 75 minutes. Its guests include Smokin Scotty Dread, Eric “E-Man” Adger, Dogboy and Sky Blue.
On that album, “Get Up” is billed as featuring Sky Blue and runs 3:38, ten seconds shorter than the band’s version. Brad Gordon produced tracks 10 to 19, and Daddy X and Doug Carrion also have producer credits. Daddy X and Kevin Zinger were the executive producers. Carrion also appears among the song’s writers.
The album has been sold on CD (Suburban Noize, catalog NZE 31), as a download and in a CD edition with a bonus track. As of September 11, 2004, it had reached No. 18 on Billboard’s Top Internet Albums chart.
After 2004
The Kottonmouth Kings closed out 2004 with The Kottonmouth Xperience, a remix album released on November 16, 2004, with a bonus DVD. Daddy X followed his solo debut with Family Ties in 2006, also on Suburban Noize. The band then released Joint Venture, a compilation, on November 15, 2005.