Xecutioners - It's Goin' Down (feat. Mike Shinoda and Mr. Hahn) - Linkin Park

It's Goin' Down" is a song by American turntablists the X-Ecutioners. It features two members of American rock band Linkin Park, rapper Mike Shinoda and turntablist Joe Hahn. It is often mistaken for a Linkin Park track due to their involvement. It was released as the only single from The X-Ecutioners' second studio album Built from Scratch, which was originally released on February 26, 2002. The single was released in March 2002 in CD and vinyl format.
While the song is foremost credited to the X-Ecutioners, it was written and performed primarily by Shinoda and Hahn of the band Linkin Park. It was also produced by Shinoda. The song includes samples of the Xzibit song "Year 2000" and Linkin Park's demo tracks "Step Up" (originally from the original and reissue of the EP Hybrid Theory) and "Dedicated (Demo 1999)" (originally from the LP Underground 2.0 EP). The chorus and bridge of the song both refer to the group as "X-Men", an old name that they changed in order to avoid accusations of copyright infringement.

Lyrics:

[Intro: Mike Shinoda]
Watch them flee, watch them flee
Watch them flee, hip-hop heads
"And you do it like this"

(It's goin' down) It's goin' down
(It's goin' down) It's goin' down
(It's goin' down) It's goin' down
(It's goin' down) It's goin' down

[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda]
It's goin' down, the rhythm projects 'round the next sound
Reflects the complex hybrid dialect, now
Detect the mesh of many elements compressed down
The melting pot of a super future-esque style

The combination of a vocal caress
With lungs that gasp for breath from emotional stress
With special effects and a distorted collage
Carefully lodged between beats of rhythmic barrage

[Pre-Chorus: Mike Shinoda]
It's goin' down, a logical progression on a timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey, now

It's goin' down, a logical progression on a timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey, now

[Chorus: Mike Shinoda]
It's goin' down, put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree
(It's goin' down) Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate

(It's goin' down) Put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree
(It's goin' down) Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate

[Post-Chorus]
(It's goin' down) "Put it on"
"I said it goes like this"
"And you do it like this"
It's goin' down

[Verse 2: Mike Shinoda]
Once again it is
Composed sentences altogether venomous
The four elements of natural force
Projected daily, through the sound of the source
Everybody on board as we blend, the sword with the pen
The mightiest of weapons swinging right from the chin
To elevate mental states long gone with the wind
To defend men for shoddy imitation pretends

It's goin' down, style assimilation, readily
Trekking through the weaponry of a pure pedigree
Cleverly seeing through whatever is ahead of me
Whatever the weather be, we're advancing steadily

It's going down sub-terrestrial high
A rhyme regiment that's calling the shots
Execution of collaborative plots
Ready to bring the separation of style to a stop

[Pre-Chorus: Mike Shinoda]
It's goin' down, a logical progression on a timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey, now

[Chorus: Mike Shinoda]
It's goin' down, put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree
(It's goin' down) Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate
(It's goin' down) Put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree
(It's goin' down) Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate

[Bridge: X-Ecutioners]
"X-Men 'bout to blast off world wide"
"X-Men 'bout to blast off world wide"
"And you do it like this"
"'Bout to blast off world wide"

[Chorus: Mike Shinoda]
It's goin' down, put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree
(It's goin' down) Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate

(It's goin' down) Put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree
(It's goin' down) Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate

[Outro: Mike Shinoda]
(It's goin' down) It's goin' down
(It's goin' down) It's goin' down
(It's goin' down) It's goin' down
(It's goin' down)

(It's goin' down)
"Put it on", "and it goes like this"
(It's goin' down)
"And you do it like this"

(It's goin' down)
"Put it on", "and it goes like this"
(It's goin' down)
"And you do it like this"

"Like this"